Lori McNeil vs Chris Evert | US Open 1987 Quarterfinal

[@franciscodeoliveira7935]

Lori McNeil came at the net around one hundred times and Chris Evert less than ten. It’s very impressive!!!

[@JSmith-zr2ve]

Not really. That was just their games.

[@kloatlanta]

She beat Graf 2x playing the same way.

[@johndelaney1818]

This match and McNeil's 1st round upset vs Graf at Wimbledon 1994 were just a few of Lori's career highlights...

[@tomschmitz261]

1987 the start of evert's decline... losing to the likes of kate gompert, sylvia hanika (first time ever), pam shriver (first time ever), and here with lori mcneil... still capable of playing incredible tennis and able to beat anyone on any given day (except for graf) for the next 2 years of her career, but this was the year where retirement wasn't too far away...this loss to mcneil after she had just beaten her in straight sets a couple of weeks earlier was one of the signals...

[@joeyconvery2055]

Chris does appear under the weather here..or her heart is just not in the match. Evert won the US Open 6 times.

[@NOTHEOTHERGUY]

Not to mention, she absolutely crushed Navratilova at the Los Angeles tournament (thus cementing Graf as #1, too). This loss was stunning.

[@josephjoel9199]

I love both of these players.

[@ddhh1270]

12:24 Lori McNeil sliding on hardcourt in 1987 wow.

[@IssaRaeOf10S]

Love this! 😍 🎾

[@tamasritzl6408]

So, USTA has only the USA Network broadcast of this match, and the whole match is not taped?

[@ThomasPaine01]

Chris Evert... 😍😍😍

[@BTURNER1961]

Another few stats for you Evert nerds. In 20 years on the pro tour, 1970-1989, Evert played 220 3 setters in US team (Fed Cup, Wightman cup) and WTA tournament play . She lost 49 (22 %) of those 220, and won 172 matches (78%) of those matches. She won the first set, and still lost the match 21 times in 20 years of play. Further, only 7 times in Evert's career, was anyone ranked outside the top eight in the world, able to defeat a set deficit to take Chris down! This match, this player was one of those!

[@franciscodeoliveira7935]

Gompert, Bonder(?), Cecchini, Reggi, Mandlikova, Seles are the others?

[@BTURNER1961]

@@franciscodeoliveira7935 Yes, but you have to be specific on which Mandlikova match. Its the 1989 match because Hana had fallen in ranking then. Now how many times did it happen in her prime years ( defined as the 13 year span between her first major one June 1974, and her last major won June 1986?) Zero. that means once you lost that first set against prime Evert, you had a better chance of getting too sick or injured while playing her than you did of making a successful comeback from a set deficit.

[@franciscodeoliveira7935]

Yes Brian Turner, the 1989 Indian Wells match where Chris Evert had match point.

[@poussinhamzah4013]

C'était la première fois dans sa carrière que Chris Evert n'a pas atteint la demi-finale à l'US Open.

[@Brick_Squared]

00:49 sure looks in to me...

[@zeddeka]

Lori was such a beautiful mover - just gliding around the court. Perhaps a shame in many ways that she wasn't around in the era of wooden racquets and when most tennis was played on grass. Her game would have been perfectly suited to that era.

[@franciscodeoliveira7935]

Perfectly suited of course! Lori McNeil has been often compared to Evonne Goolagong, so you’re absolutely right!

[@JasonsWorldTravels]

great match

[@JohnJones-fg1dd]

No one was more gracious in defeat than Evert.

[@kjmcindoe3014]

Pity she wasn't a bit more gracious in some of her comments. e.g accusing Monica Seles of being a drama queen during her post-stabbing layoff.

[@fjosephgonzales6870]

@@kjmcindoe3014 Please name your credible source for that.

[@paologonzato5202]

It's not true.Look at the way Evert usually shook hand to Martina After loosing a match.She never looked in Martina's eyes,meanwhile Martina often smiled &embrassed Chris.

[@paologonzato5202]

Two examples:After loss at the 1985 French Open Martina embrassed very friendly Chris.Just One month later After her loss at Wimbledon Chris didn't look in Martina's eyes and Watch the way She shook hands!!C'mon!! that Is means being friend??not really

[@JohnJones-fg1dd]

@@paologonzato5202 If you want to mention embracing, why don't you bring up the 78 Wimbledon? She shook hands, she congratulated the winner. That was gracious.

[@locker-roomdwarf3549]

GOD BLESS

[@Make_Australia_British_Again]

The athleticism has improved so much.

[@shihlin1]

Perhaps one of the matches it was time for Chris to finally hang up her racquet. This and the Zina match two years later the only times she failed to make the semis. Even as a 16-year old Chris made the semis.

[@kdohertygizbur]

She made the finals at Australia the next year and was still number 3 and won several finals including spanking Navratilova in straight sets twice , was 4-4 in finals She was hardly ready for the glue factory

[@futurebrighter]

How long has Mary Carrillo been commentating?

[@andrewromero5008]

Far too long. I'm tired of hearing that voice!

[@lenwelch2195]

When chrissie missed that backhand serving at 4-5 she knew it wasn’t her day. She followed it up at 15-30 with over hitting a sitter forehand. . Chris knew she wasn’t playing well and the perfectionists in her said, it’s better if your gonna lose to lose before having to play Grafwhen I have to be at my best to make the sets close. A year later she won her QF three setter on this court over Maleeva and got sick and had to withdrawal .from SF.

[@nlee035]

The skills of tennis players have really improved over the decades.

[@alexibrowne2223]

Their power and court coverage is pretty limited. Serena would beat either one in 35 minutes.....

[@leolight5369]

Nah. It's racket technology that have drastically improved.

[@AinSoph73]

@@martydav9475 Venus Williams

[@carrerau7138]

@@alexibrowne2223You think Evert would be able to lose to Bammer twice? Or to Vinci in a USO semi?

[@johndelaney1818]

Evert's shots lacked zing...and she seems a step slow. Perhaps she slept poorly the night prior? It appears so! Regardless, McNeil played smart tennis to win the match.

[@MrGroenland1]

Le jeu pur de Mcneil.

[@paologonzato5202]

E' piuttosto difficile constatare che Chris Evert abbia vinto il 6° US OPEN nel 1982,poi 83/84 perso due finali consecutive contro Martina(dalla quale aveva già perso una volta sempre a Flushing Meadows in SF 81) e poi dal 1985 fino alla fine della sua carriera i "peggiori"risultati negli Slam li avrebbe ottenuti proprio nello Slam di casa:sconfitta in SF '85 da Mandlikova(46 62 63),SF '86 da Sukova(62 64)SF'88(forfait prima del match vs Graf) e due sconfitte ai QF '87 da McNeil(36 62 64) e '89 da Garrison (76 62).Anche se personalmente non credo che dal 1985 al 1989 avrebbe potuto in ogni caso vincere.

[@JayYoutube1]

It seems like Chrissie eat no breakfast that day. She seems so weak here. 🤷

[@onetwocue]

Nah Mary wanted to be white and that's why Chrissie failed

[@Gilgarth]

Evert seemed like she was in her early 40‘s there

[@santoshthapa8398]

@@onetwocue mary wanted to be white? Huh!?

[@shihlin1]

It's called "ageing".

[@gardnersgourmetbakery6269]

Luckily for Chris there was no depth in the women’s field

[@videot2011]

Chris was in poor health, he had just had an ear infection, if I remember correctly

[@light279]

And what did Lori have?. A toothache?.

[@JSmith-zr2ve]

@@light279you make zero sense.

[@jonathankieranwriter]

Urrrrrgh. Chris doesn’t look like she feels well, physically. Pale and bedraggled.

[@jpeyton88]

This is about the worse I have ever seen Evert play. McNeil gave her no rhythm, and Evert could never grove her strokes.

[@JSmith-zr2ve]

I believe Chrissie was sick at this time.

[@seensay2132]

I’d be sick too had I just lost a US Open QF I was supposed to win handily lol!

[@alineenreche747]

une joueuse qui fait retour-volée ! on risque pas de revoir ça ...

[@franciscodeoliveira7935]

aline enreche. Taylor Townsend est la joueuse actuelle qui se rapproche le plus du « style McNeil « , la puissance en plus. Ses grandes qualités de retour- volée ont été fatales à Simona Halep lors du deuxième tour de l’Us Open 2019.

[@alineenreche747]

@@franciscodeoliveira7935 bonjour, oui je la connais mais je trouve Lori plus élégante et plus adroite au filet tout de même.

[@MrGroenland1]

Taylor Townsend qui ? Lori Mcneil c'était une autre époque

[@jl3322]

And she never did another thing in tennis.

[@MyPorsche22]

She still does🙄

[@peterdurkin8980]

These commentators kiss Everett's but

[@JayYoutube1]

... how is her name again, genius?