1996 Wimbledon Final

Steffi Graf v Arantxa Sanchez

[@alexbutic8042]

Ms. Graf is a class of her own among tennis champions. We are fortunate that we could still watch her games on yt.

[@michaelscarborough6563]

How about Serena Williams?? A different class??

[@carrerau7138]

@@michaelscarborough6563 Esthetically yes. Quality-wise Serena came close, however.

[@michaelscarborough6563]

@@carrerau7138 I don't like SW or VW, to be honest.

[@carrerau7138]

@@michaelscarborough6563 I have nothing against Venus.

[@benchick3565]

​@@michaelscarborough6563this is not about tantrum Williams

[@jlf88-d5v]

Nobody would’ve believed at the time that this would turn out to be the last time they played.

[@Logans3Run]

Hi Joe, exactly... 36 times facing each other then...Nothing... It looks as though Aranxta will be thinking about current events that are plaguing her and not her playing career ;)

[@markuse3472]

"last time they played" against each other, that is.

[@rajusaha855]

Wow that's was Graf's 20th grand slam at age of 27. Do you think it ever be broken? No. Serena achieve that feat in 33 years 9 months, Federer in 36 years 5 months, Rafa in 34 years 4 months & Djokovic in 33 years 2 months. That's huge difference. Now it was Graf's 46 grand slam tournament. Meanwhile Serena took 59, Rafa took 60, Nole took 65 & Fed took 72 grand slam tournament to win their 20th slam. Amazing Steffi!

[@therealkolluri]

It's a great milestone and Steffi is one of a kind. I will disagree and will not compare men's and women's as if they are equal and the same. If men's GS were best of three we would see the GOAT's totals in the 40s.

[@rajusaha855]

@@therealkolluri I disagree. If men's final were best of 3 sets then big 3 especially Novak would have less slams. It's difficult to beat big 3 especially Novak & Rafa in bo5 set than in bo3. Example Novak would have lost to Tsitsipas in 2021 French open or lost to Sinner in 2022 Wimbledon QF matches etc. Infact Novak openly admitted that he is tougher to beat in bo5 set format than from bo3 set format

[@therealkolluri]

@@rajusaha855 so what? Men's and women's tennis is not the same. That is my point. The big3 are exceptional athletes, they would have figured it out.

[@rajusaha855]

@@therealkolluri Steffi was also an exceptional athlete in her heydays. If men's tennis would have bo3 set final then many NextGen would have won atleast one slam.

[@therealkolluri]

@@rajusaha855 wow, dude I'd like to refer you to McEnroe to explain the difference between men's tennis and women's tennis.

[@zuichiang5088]

I love some of the TV angles shown here. Makes u feel like you are there near the courtside! Thanks for uploading Kev :)

[@chrisf8855]

Steffi Graf is the greatest women's player of all time💯💯💯

[@papiyadas516]

Steffi looking beautiful

[@chadaornindot]

A steffi fan, but why is it so hard not to like Arantxa. That bubbly personality whenever she comments about a line call. She's like a bumble bee buzzing around the court. I miss these two.

[@Ryan-mx2kr]

STEFFI GRAFF would smoke Serena if they played in their primes. Hands down the best female tennis player in the history of the game.

[@jujumusique1305]

On clay yes, but I wouldn’t be so confident on hard or grass. Serena’s serve at her prime is 2-3 free points per service game (aces or service winners) and one of the best return games ever.

[@jujumusique1305]

@Stacked747 the same was said about players like Mauresmo. Oddly it’s always black and homosexual women who are targeted by such dumb comments

[@jujumusique1305]

@Stacked747 ok racist

[@jujumusique1305]

@Stacked747 says the guy who so badly needs to have the last word. I didn’t get personal, maybe you should do the same. Bye

[@carrerau7138]

@@jujumusique1305 Steffi won 37 hard court tournaments and had only 39 losses on that surface. Serena won 48 hard court tournaments but had a staggering 95 losses on that surface. It is not even close.

[@karl-heinznoe9960]

Graf 20 Gran slams at age of 27 !!!!!!!!!!!! World record !!! Serena had only 1 slam more because she played 10 years longer than Steffi !!

[@carrerau7138]

And yet Serena does not have even a normal Grand Slam whereas Steffi has a GOLDEN Slam!

[@AidaRivera-p7j]

Gunter Parche 🤫

[@carrerau7138]

@@AidaRivera-p7j Seles would have peaked at at 25-31, denying Serena a lot of slams in 1999-2005.

[@MirjanaLfan]

More than she would have had 🔪

[@RoamHockey]

Wimbledon..tennis's biggest stage..where the real champions show up

[@sirenapartenope0604]

Graf too much strong..., but Arantxa was very pretty and friendly when she tore up the trophy from the hands of Steffi...Also after a defeat it can keep the smile. I think she gave a beatiful exempl for the young.

[@LDVTennis]

@24:03 ... Graf is still the only player to have won each major, at least 4 times.

[@preciousjey]

And almost won another Calendar 1989 Grand Slam.

[@Logans3Run]

...Which, in numerous people's opinions, makes Steffi Graf's sporting achievements, forever engraved in the history books, of sporting achievements and greatness.

[@gary8306]

@Max E seles got stabbed Max dude, Graff would have hardly any slams if it wasn't for that.

[@Mark9208p]

@@gary8306 hardly any slams? Your hatred towards Steffi and gratification for that Seles woman is just revolting; especially since it’s on a Steffi video. You have all 9 to replay over and over to spread your shit on.

[@grantgoffin4774]

@@gary8306 LOL fool Graf already had all the slams multiple times even before the stabbing. And the only place Seles ever wins Wimbledon even without the stabbing is mixed doubles or on playstation. Even before the stabbing look at Graf making a fool of her in the 92 final. Still a great effort for Seles to make the final to get destroyed by Graf, as her overall record there shows making the final was a huge fluke. Usually she is losing to Studenikova, Testud, Lucic, Zvereva, or some other nobody in an early round.

[@sann5146]

1:12:39 Commentator: "First couple of points in this game so key for both players to get that mental edge." S. Graf: proceeds to lose the first couple of points 😂😂

[@markdecena4559]

Wow. Been waiting for this for so long. Tq

[@peterzhou9267]

The most impressive moment in the match was actually Arantxa borrowing Graf's trophy for a moment.

[@martinhudecek8886]

Agassi did that too in 99 although he at least got steffi herself

[@ДмитрийАндреев-р6г]

Insanely sorry for Arantxa that she never won Wimbledon. Although she was so worthy and did so much for this

[@carrerau7138]

@@martinhudecek8886 Agassi's Golden Slam!!

[@Munkyjoe1]

Steffi looked so good and comfortable here and at the US Open

[@francinezane4076]

Yes loved her form in 95 and 96

[@carrerau7138]

Who would have thought at that point that she would never break Court's 24 slam record!

[@preciousjey]

1984 Grafs flat top.backhand was used much than later years. It's really nice.

[@stevelundquist2417]

Aranxa, big fan, sorry you ran up against a G.O.A.T.

[@xaviercrain7336]

And had Steffi not had a back injury in 1994 that Arantxa exploited and been under the weather in 1989, Arantxa only would have had one grand slam

[@scriptedbeauty1]

Graf had already won 21 grand slams by the age of 27.

[@xaviercrain7336]

She would have had more than 24 had she not tried to come back from injury too quickly. Martin Hingis could never beat her when it counted.

[@33leroi]

Штеффи Граф просто гениальна, больше сказать и написать нечего. Это был ее 20-й победный мейджор.

[@МарияВасильева-э6е]

Аранта Санчес была не менее гениальна

[@33leroi]

@@МарияВасильева-э6е Санчес-Викарио отличная теннисистка. Как же ей не везло как раз вот в этот отрезок 1995-96 годы в финалах Шлемов. Четыре Шлема уступила Штеффи и еще один Пирс.

[@ericamccluskey1714]

What fabulous tennis.

[@Dadidon.]

Steffi - the most wonderful girl ever on a court! Arantxa - the most sympathetic girl in tennis! They are both are friends to this day, although they are completely different (or maybe that's why). Amazing match!

[@tobiast5908]

Their very last meeting of 36 matches played against each other (28-8 Graf, 9-4 at Slams, 5-2 in slam finals) Graf faced two different players in all four GS finals throughout her career Sanchez 1-0 AO 2-1 FO 2-0 Wim 0-1 USO = 5-2 overall And Seles 0-1 AO 0-2 FO 1-0 Wim 2-0 USO = 3-3 overall

[@laviniaparisi9154]

When Graf played so, only one with the temperament of Arantxa could not lose the second set to zero... Sanchez, like always, played a good match, but this time Steffi was too much difficult to stop. I think that for her the regret remain the final 95.

[@rolymier8659]

Good match. I am still not a fan of Sanchez-Vicario. Always questioning calls and that bathroom break was typical of her and even players of today, causing their opponent's to loose their momentum. Thankfully Steffi experience enabled her to get through the match.

[@wimzswimz9843]

51:00-51:23 The man said "Steffi, will you marry me?". Steffi said "How much money do you have?"

[@BRemnerrase]

Hope you wins the next one runner up ❤❤❤❤

[@naysmith5272]

@1:30:48 is the runner-up being man-hanled out of the way? its not entirely clear.

[@JSmith-zr2ve]

Wow I hadn’t either. Dragging her out of the way.

[@preciousjey]

I miss the Curtsies and Flowers. Wow I remember Steffi miss the overhead and still hit the ball after. 1:04:01

[@8sabu1982]

Arantxa kiss the Sky

[@broncoguy4862]

That was actually a light moment that Graf later commented on...she was very humble, saying it wasn't a bug or anything, "I just missed the ball".

[@papiyadas516]

Sanchez vicario was a fighting player

[@stevenmichael4990]

Oh really. So when did Graf miss time playing pro tennis except for when she left & Hingis took over?

[@zeddeka]

Arantxa's game starting to look frazzled by 1996. She'd had three excellent years, but also some tough losses, and she was looking tired.

[@gk891]

I think getting to the finals of Wimbledon, the Olympics, Canadian Open and San Diego but losing all of those final matches hurt her confidence. I thought she looked awful in her loss to Hingis at the U.S Open that year.

[@zuichiang5088]

@@gk891 yeah. Plus Roland Garros final too. Didnt she lead 5-3 in the final set against Steffi there?

[@gk891]

@@zuichiang5088 Yes, that one was probably the toughest loss of them all. Losing 8-10 in the third would've hurt a lot.

[@peterzhou9267]

@@gk891 I personally think that the Olympics final was actually the hardest. She threw in whatever she could to be in the final (despite being in a poor form) only to lose in two sets to someone she never lost against. Had she won that one she would've had much more confidence, since Olympics was a big thing in some European countries.

[@gk891]

@@peterzhou9267 She also played very hard in the Canadian Open finals against Seles. Both players seemed like they had a lot to prove in that match and Arantxa played an excellent second set. Then she had that freak accident where she lost her grip on her racket after a serve during the tie-break. Getting a new racket seemed to have disrupted her somewhat.

[@stephenmeitai7622]

Crowds support Sanchez. But not fulfilled their dreams. Their favorite Sanchez Vicario is defeated

[@jimbohr]

bud collins and his bizarre questions

[@FloridaIndependent]

Imagine if Steffi gave up her traditional belief and varied a little bit of her back hand with a double bh when necessay ... she would have 30+ GS.

[@carrerau7138]

BS

[@EleutheriosKaralis-yq9vl]

What is sanchez doing in a wimbledon finale???

[@carrerau7138]

It was her second Wimbledon final in a row.

[@ДмитрийАндреев-р6г]

It was a heartbreaking sight that summer. Watch how the beautiful Arantxa tries, over and over again gives all of herself on the court and each time stops a step away from the goal I have never seen an athlete with so much passion and fire as Sanchez. Fate was very unfair to her, especially in 1996

[@jujumusique1305]

Both 95 and 96. At Wimbledon 95 and French open 96 she was very close to beating Graf.

[@francinezane4076]

😂😂😂😂

[@carrerau7138]

Sanchez at least won 2 slam finals against Steffi. On both clay AND fast hard court - a unique achievement!

[@roter13]

Funny how Tracy thinks that Steffi's majors are more impressive than Courts but I don't think that she said the same thing about Serena...

[@carrerau7138]

Because Steffi beat far better opponents in her slam finals than Serena.

[@nadianadi378]

I like how in the thumbnail we do not have the photo of the winner to ruin the suspense for us

[@carrerau7138]

Every tennis fan knows who won Wimbledon 96.

[@Ryan-mx2kr]

GRAFF>NAVRATILOVA

[@RoamHockey]

the best of alltime : 1. Graf 2. Navratilova 3. Williams 4. Evert

[@lexpotoabel4190]

Kimiko Date could have won the Championship.

[@8sabu1982]

Not with Sánchez Vicario 😝

[@carrerau7138]

No, she would have had to beat Steffi.

[@derekdevaney2242]

At the peak of her powers here, Graf had only two more Slams left in her.

[@carrerau7138]

Sadly, her reconstructive knee surgery in 1997 changed history. She most certainly would have won 30+ slams otherwise.

[@francinezane4076]

​@@carrerau7138, Agree ❤❤❤

[@nadianadi378]

Wow, Tracey was so young I did not even recognise her.

[@anntengocampo1455]

this is how she played '88,89

[@tobiast5908]

She was playing better here than in 1988/ 1989 imho. Those were her most dominant years but Graf was an improved player by 1995/96

[@carrerau7138]

@@tobiast5908 In 1988/89 she was faster. But not as savvy yet strategically.

[@tobiast5908]

@@carrerau7138 her serve got better, her slice backhand got deadlier and she had more variety because of this. Most importantly she got less dependent on her forehand. In the 80s she was doing most everything with her forehand. That wasnt possible anymore in the times of seles, davenport and hingis. Graf became a better strategist as a result. Imo.

[@carrerau7138]

@@tobiast5908 Even in 1988/89 she hit far more slice backhands than forehands. Seles, Davenport, Hingis, Capriati are all on record with saying how much they hated Steffi's nasty slice.

[@tobiast5908]

@@carrerau7138 Yeah. All of them said so in the 1990s. Especially from the mid 1990s onwards graf basically beat seles us open final 1995 because of it. There were very few forehand winners for her standard, especially in the 2nd and third set. But her slice backhand made the difference .

[@SantoReino31]

Poor Arantxa¡ :(

[@shafaquenarayan4933]

Good (nil) untouched ✓ mono (past)

[@danielnavarro8054]

Valoro a Steffi Graf, pero no olvidar que la máxima ganadora de Wimbledon fue y sera siempre la gran MARTINA NAVRATILOVA.

[@bayastanho3652]

@12:45

[@Ahnadrisehh]

Amazing tennis player 😍 Steffe Graf

[@8sabu1982]

Again Graf 😩

[@rajusaha855]

Again the goat😉😉😉

[@francinezane4076]

Yay Steffi. 🎊🥳💥❤️✌️