Well Steffi, Jana and Martina N all have threads in their names so I started a thread for Chris Evert.
Very old post to still respond to, but anyway....Bud irritates me a lot in his take on those early 70s years and his ridiculous (imo) rankings for that period, which somehow the wta tour consider "official". The guy is extremely pro-BJK and much less appreciative of Chrissie and Evonne. In 71, he ranked King ahead of Evonne, in 72, his top 6 reads: King - Court -Richey - Evert - Wade - Goolagong (at #6!!!!) and there are the 74 rankings quoted above. It is very clear that he was doing everything to promote the fledgling wta tour.
I'm 10000000% with you on that one, Santorofan, and from as far back as possible. I can't see how it could be achieved, though, for millions of reasons (cue rant on rankings, I'm afraid; maybe this should be in another thread):Santorofan said:In regards to the pre-November '75 rankings dilemma, personally I'd find it extremely interesting if one were able to utilize the current computerized ranking system towards preceding years (particularly from '71 onwards) to figure out what the current official system would've ranked these players. Might this be possible (any stats majors around?)? We need some serious number crunching for this thread
Yes they were junior rivals. Evonne talks about Hunt often in her early pages of her book Home. Unfortunately the info around the Oz traps about the likes of Gourlay, Hunt, Harris isn't great. Basically at that time if you weren't a huge contender ala Court, Goolagong then you weren't worth writing about.... and they are then forgotten in times like these.tilden said:Lesley also had an amazing early record against Goolagong in their junior days. It was something like 6-1 in favour of Hunt at one stage - but Evonne got better and better in the professional ranks, and Lesley didn't!!
Rollo said:My pleasure Double fault How did you come to be an Evert fan?
I detested her at first(Virginia Wade was my pet)-but grew to appreciate her class. By 1983 I was cheering her on all the way!
When I get money I want to get all those tapes of old matches. A few that stick out are the US Open semi of 1981 and of course the French of 1985.
Rollo said:She did get very thin, didn't she Mark? In 1981 I thought she was border-line anorexic. Streisand-LOL
Andy T said:She did look good in the early 80s but then we got that "poor white trash" look, softened it up to win Roland garros in pink in 86 and finally, we had the cutesy Rinaldi plaits. Chris ran the gamut of looks from virgin to hooker during her career.
jeanmi18 said:I liked the 1989 plates at Wimb, when she played Golarsa, looked better than the sophisticated hairdo 'à la Brigitte Bardot' she got when she beat Seles at the US Open
Me too, Jeanmi(chel?). Don't take my bitching about Chrissie seriously, will you? it's all done with a lot of affection! It was hilarious for a while in 84 when Chrissie went for the "vampy trampy" look and Martina went for the paroxide lesbian bowl at the same time - they looked like a couple of drag queens. Then there was Andrea Temesvari with that HEAVY-duty make-up and, of course, the immortal Pamfro. Threads are dedicated to great years 81/90, etc, etc but 84 takes a lot of beating for hideous hairdos!jeanmi18 said:Sorry I meant 'plait', I'm getting tired
Andy T said:Me too, Jeanmi(chel?). Don't take my bitching about Chrissie seriously, will you? it's all done with a lot of affection! It was hilarious for a while in 84 when Chrissie went for the "vampy trampy" look and Martina went for the paroxide lesbian bowl at the same time - they looked like a couple of drag queens. Then there was Andrea Temesvari with that HEAVY-duty make-up and, of course, the immortal Pamfro. Threads are dedicated to great years 81/90, etc, etc but 84 takes a lot of beating for hideous hairdos!