Tennis - 1975 US Open Ladies Singles Final

[@shihlin1]

Thank you for loading this rarely seen match. The surprise is how well Evonne is playing on Chris's best surface. The match was tight until late in the second set. A very well played, high quality match. The female announcer Julie Heldman was a player herself. Tho her broadcast style isn't the most appealing, but she gives great insight into the players, their games and court condition.

[@DanBudda]

Thank you!!! Great match. I even enjoyed the commercials!! Thanks again.

[@ottodoerr409]

Congratulations, this is classic one, I wish you could post the men’s semifinal between J.Connors and B.Borg, but anyway thanks a lot , quality picture is awesome.

[@gregoryphillips3969]

Chris Evert, beauty, class, and a great champion all rolled into one.

[@jurgenf5771]

Chris Evert. Damals wie heute eine wunderschöne Frau und zudem eine klasse Tennisspielerin gewesen .

[@albertleung5449]

Thanks for this beautiful upload! Two of my favs in '70, Chris against Evonne always a good show. I believe Evonne's particular backhand make her deal with the high bounce on clay better, though still a pity she never won USO. Might you have their Wimby final '76? that's a terrific match I long to watch in full badly.

[@markalan2340]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@shihlin1]

If you search here on KZbin, there are several uploads of their 76 Wimbledon final, including one or two in its entirety.

[@dominiksapara8985]

@@markalan2340 Good day, thank you very much for all the archival tennis matches, please you will show more here. I'm keeping fingers crossed for you and I wish you above good health. Best regards Dominik :)

[@kamint2258]

クリス・エバートの横顔が一瞬、キム・クライシュテルスに見えた😅 グーラゴンとの貴重な動画を有難う！😊👍✨

[@markthomas7225]

Great Video love to see more of Evert. Do you have Evert vs Graf at the 1985 French Open 4th round. probably hard to find.

[@markalan2340]

I have recently stopped working, so am going through my old VHS tapes, to be honest I don’t really know what I have 😅

[@Tjordful]

@@markalan2340 that’s exciting!

[@tamasritzl6408]

@@markalan2340 Did you record it when it was played live?

[@markalan2340]

No I seem to remember this came from a Umatic tape off Air recording from the USA, actually I think the commercials give a clue to the exact location.

[@lenwelch2195]

@@Tjordful I have over 300 start to finish evert matches on either DVD or VHS . I have the entire matchevert vs Austin 1980 us open sf . Can you believe that cbs did not televise that match. I make the case that that single match was the most important match of evert s career. If she had lost that match 4-0 in 14 minutes and didn’t find her groove when she did - she figured out how to play her at the start of the fifth game and had the courage for the first time in her career to change the way she played in order to beat another opponent ( mixing up the pace by drop shooting, going for overhead smash winners from the baseline, swinging half volleys from mid court for winners, being the first to dictate the pace , not playing safe tennis. There would not have beeen a 1985 or 86 French open . Chris would’ve retired as she did in beginning of the 1980 season losing 5 straight times to Austin. Chris could handle losing to Martina , a player who played serve and volley but not to a younger version of herself. Austin couldn’t take it and retired once she knew she’d never topple evert again losing 6-0.6-0 last time they played 6 months before Austin retired. Austin came back to the tour just 4 months into 1990 ( months after evert played fed cup in November / December 1989. Austin didn’t want her lifetime stat of 9 wins to 8 losses challenged. Evert beat Austin in 3 of 4 matches played in grand slam events . 6 of those wins came on indoor carpet a surface evert hated.

[@moboutmen]

Wood rackets. Gotta love 'em. They should have a Retro Tournament where everyone has to do wood.

[@ernc1941]

Chris just wore down Evonne in this match. Billie Jean King summed up the match well “Evonne just got tired”. Evonne herself said that she was “tennised out” by Evert.

[@martinpascoe5904]

SUDDEN CHANGE TO CLAY SURFACE TAILOR MADE FOR CHRIS, TIHS WAS EVONNES LAST REAL CHANCE

[@janly1613]

wow, it's so interesting to watch tennis in a totally different era of 1975. The game is so slow & the players hardly move their body but mostly use their arms. Because of the lack of body movement there is less injuries & players back then would not be thought of as athletes. Tennis has progress so much since then.

[@kloatlanta]

It’s called super heavy super small racquets and no poly strings

[@luthorlex-fc9ft]

Goolagong made too many unforced errors in the 2nd and 3rd set, particularly the 3rd set. So many forehand errors, sloppy.

[@ernc1941]

Evert forced Evonne into long rallies, kept her pinned to the baseline, and tired her out. In that regard, I think those errors were “forced” by Evert. Evonne mentally gave up.

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@ernc1941 She had chances to win the 2nd set if she took some early break chances. When she lost the 2nd set, her chances were probably over. She was probably never winning in 3 given how hard she was having to work. And when she lost the 1-0 game up a break after being up 30-0, it was really over for her I think.

[@ernc1941]

@@rolandgreen7484 agree. Evert did make opponents work hard, moving them from side to side, and driving them to exhaustion. I remember one match where she had Margaret Court visibly panting!

[@rolandgreen7484]

@@ernc1941 yeah and the only way to avoid Evert doing that to you was to have so much firepower like Graf, Navratilova, and temporarily Tracy Austin you could put her on her back foot immediately and not give her the chance to construct or start moving you around at all.

[@ernc1941]

@@rolandgreen7484 back then, Margaret Court too had power and “firepower”, but Evert found her predictable and read her well.

[@timcurran2857]

The woman commentator is annoying

[@grantgoffin4774]

I think she is drunk. She usually boozed up for her commentary sessions. I am serious.

[@FLE22P]

Oh these boring lobs 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

It was spectacular back then

[@kenmoreSF]

love the diaper depends undies.