Steffi Graf vs Martina Hingis | French Open 1999 Women's Final Highlights | Eurosport

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  • Highlights from the 1999 French Open Final, where Steffi Graf took on Martina Hingis.
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  • @TheThesami75
    @TheThesami75 Před měsícem +7

    Quel calme quelle maîtrise de steffi Graf. RESPECT

  • @catcochrane6878
    @catcochrane6878 Před 9 měsíci +16

    Steffi Graf in her prime was the ultimate in athleticism and beauty...my all time favourite player ❤

  • @garysangster3092
    @garysangster3092 Před 8 měsíci +15

    I remember watching this match live. I was amazed and so proud of Steffi Graf to come through and dominate the 3rd set. Hingis was clearly losing grip of her own confidence and resorted to a couple of under arm services to gain cheap points.
    The most dignified and respectful part of this match was the speech Steffi gave in crediting Martina and urging her to continue and grow as the champion she would be who was in tears at losing this match. It shows the true champion and graceful competitor she was and many could learn alot from her to this day and moving forward in all sports.

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 Před 4 měsíci +5

      Yes, the speech by Graf was a graceful one.
      She did also say in the press conference afterwards that Hingis needed to learn to respect her opponents and to not make derogatory comments about other players. I can’t remember her exact words, but this was definitely the gist - and was perfectly true!

    • @helgaherbstreit5102
      @helgaherbstreit5102 Před 20 dny +1

      @@scswp6945 I think she said that your opponent is also your teammate because you can't play tennis alone. She deserves respect for that.

  • @potdog1000
    @potdog1000 Před 11 měsíci +10

    i loved watching Steffi play, what a superb athlete & an artist on the court

  • @sm0ki
    @sm0ki Před rokem +18

    I watched this live and was rooting for Steffi as most people did but I was pretty sure that Hingis would win. Boy was I wrong! It was amazing to watch!

  • @charliez077
    @charliez077 Před 3 lety +20

    5:51 i still remember SCREAMING at this point!!! I think one of the best WTA points of all times

  • @ScaramouchedaVinci
    @ScaramouchedaVinci Před 2 lety +16

    This finale was much more dramatic than these sequences show.

    • @mohawk393939
      @mohawk393939 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes and missing the crucial turning point which was *5-4 15-15 second set Hingis serving for the match with that epic rally and the lesser seen topspin backhand winner from Graf

  • @Apireon
    @Apireon Před 5 lety +31

    A legendary match

  • @cathsmithy
    @cathsmithy Před 4 lety +25

    Steffi, Steffi, Steffi what a true legend of the game - simple the best

  • @mrkne7
    @mrkne7 Před 3 lety +27

    Ich kann mich noch sehr gut an dieses Spiel erinnern ich bin selber Schweizer aber kaum jemand meiner Landsleute war für Martina Hingis wir alle hofften dass Steffi gewinnt.

    • @rolandgererstorfer1207
      @rolandgererstorfer1207 Před rokem +5

      habs auch live gesehen.Hingis war einfach viel zu arrogant und dachte sie kann die Rentner-Graf einfach so weghauen und sorgte damit für den schönsten Sieg von Graf 🙂

    • @fckwful
      @fckwful Před rokem +2

      Von heute aus gesehen tut mir Hingis schon ein bisschen leid, weil man mit 18 Jahren natürlich auch mal Fehler macht. Vielleicht hätte sie die Mutter bzw. Trainerin oder ein sonstiger Berater in Sachen Verhalten gegenüber dem Publikum und Aussagen über Mitspielerinnen besser beraten sollen. Bei Roger Federer haben die meisten auch hier in Deutschland auch dann zu ihm gehalten, wenn er gegen Deutsche gespielt hat (Zverev z.B.), nur Tommy Haas war auch sehr beliebt. Insgesamt muss es aber eine hervorragende Nachwuchsarbeit in der Schweiz geben, wenn man die Einwohnerzahl auf der einen Seite und die Erfolge auf der anderen Seite sieht. Viele Grüße in die Schweiz!

  • @bisbis22
    @bisbis22 Před rokem +5

    The most dramatic match of all time. Period.

  • @patrickschlosser8208
    @patrickschlosser8208 Před 3 lety +24

    Hingis not only lost aTennis Final. She lost Faith in herself. Many can be Winners but only a few can be Champions.

  • @philipstormer3165
    @philipstormer3165 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I watched this live. It almost the end of stefis career and noone expect her in this final. And then she grapped the title.

  • @ismailcetin1883
    @ismailcetin1883 Před 4 lety +8

    5:51 The Legend ..

  • @Calicokit101
    @Calicokit101 Před 5 lety +8

    Never gets old

  • @sergezerkalo7167
    @sergezerkalo7167 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Hingis a quand même été pour beaucoup responsable dans sa propre défaite, elle avait Graf a sa merci. Si elle avait été moins arrogante, le public ne l'aurait pas autant pris en grippe et pris fait et cause pour son adversaire.
    Bravo a Graf pour s'être accroché mentalement, on voit qu'elle est allée au delà de ses limites physiques.

    • @Freakxence
      @Freakxence Před měsícem

      Moins arrogante ? Pour avoir voulu vérifier une marque que les arbitres ne retrouvaient pas ? Vous vous rendez compte que tous ces sportifs de haut niveau sont pour la grande majorité des monstres d'arrogance. Graf était elle-même considérée comme très arrogante sur le circuit. Je sais de quoi je parle, je vis en Allemagne, elle est loin d'avoir une belle image ici. Le comportement du public a juste été lamentable. Une bande de beaufs (style football) qui prend sans raison fait et cause pour l'un(e) ou l'autre. Comme en Coupe Davis. Des gens qui n'y connaissent rien et qui viennent pour l'événement. C'est lourd et anti-sportif. Ca ne colle pas du tout avec l'esprit du tennis. Moi, ca m'a fait honte de voir un tel comportement du public. Je vous invite à regarder le tournoi de Rome qui se déroule en ce moment. Regardez les matchs avec un joueur italien. Pathétique. Les mecs hurlent quand l'adversaire rate une première balle de service.

  • @DalidaInternational
    @DalidaInternational Před 5 lety +62

    Hingis lost knowing that in the conference before the final she said that Graf was now old and slow and has no chance of winning, knowing that Graf arrived to RG final beating all the top seeded players at the time...
    She learnt a hard lesson that day of being too arrogant and cocky at 18 and sadly never won a singles grand slam ever again... She did have a great doubles career though.

    • @DalidaInternational
      @DalidaInternational Před 5 lety

      Thank you I didnt know that

    • @Bauer2sPro
      @Bauer2sPro Před 4 lety +7

      Karma👏👏👏. Love Steffi as a player And a person. The other : yuk

    • @erikthehalfabee6234
      @erikthehalfabee6234 Před 3 lety +6

      what is excluded in this video is the lengthy toilet break hingis took at the beginning of the third set

    • @beavertown2006
      @beavertown2006 Před 3 lety

      Didn't she say that when she was 15 during the US Open?

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +1

      @@beavertown2006 No, she said that during Roland Garros 1999, Dalida is correct.

  • @TheoBN
    @TheoBN Před 11 měsíci +8

    8:51 Hingis was a very bad und unfair looser. In this moment, she lost all sympathie

  • @carrerau7138
    @carrerau7138 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Steffi took out the trash that day.

  • @StellaSlight
    @StellaSlight Před 4 lety +6

    Sport at its best.
    Lots of great points battled between two great champions 👍

  • @pasimaenpaa2360
    @pasimaenpaa2360 Před rokem +6

    I remember this match. Hingis has every chance to win it. Propably would have. I just say that she made one big mistake. She underestimated steffi. A grand slam winner. Why? One point or the crowd didn't solve this match. That's just my opinion.

  • @silviatennismusic
    @silviatennismusic Před 4 lety +10

    Que atleta Steffi Graf 💝 eres la más grande en todos los sentidos.🎾

  • @carrerau7138
    @carrerau7138 Před 9 dny

    June 5th, on this day 25 years ago.
    Probably the most famous women's match of the open era.

  • @karstenhanel8481
    @karstenhanel8481 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Hingis was so arrogant in this final

  • @jmcd31
    @jmcd31 Před 4 lety +7

    Still can't believe how much Hingis lost this match over that 1 ball she was arguing about...... at 2.23 mins in. All downhill from then

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +5

      Untrue. She came back and had ample chances (and missed those). It was maybe a turning point, but not the only one. In the end, it is the usual mixture in these kind of games: one player is loosing confidence and power step by step and at the same degree the other is gaining strength. And in the end it is a fully deserved win. It is called sports.

  • @stevyyjay85
    @stevyyjay85 Před 5 lety +27

    One of Steffi's finest victories, her 6th French Open title... what a legend.
    It is sad that Hingis would never win another GS....

    • @stevyyjay85
      @stevyyjay85 Před 4 lety +2

      @Illya Kuryakin a slightly fitter Seles would have also meant trouble for Hingis in 1997. I often wonder what she, Steffi, could have achieved at the US Open in 1999. I mean... she should have reached the QF at the 1999 USO at the very least. Had Graf made it to the final of the USO that year, chances were high to regain the #1 position. That would have been a kii. I think Steffi should have played the 1999 season to its end. But the way she ended her career was perfect too... That summer of 1999 is something I will never forget.

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 4 lety +1

      @Illya Kuryakin Steffi Graf wouldn't have won as much as she did post May 1993 hadn't a crazy fan of hers stabbed Seles at her prime. It's has become a running theme with her.

    • @maurascafati1987
      @maurascafati1987 Před 3 lety +2

      @@sportstravel4129
      Problably true. But it is not Graf' s fault/responsability, crazy people exist ...

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready Před 9 měsíci

      And if I had had the combined talent of Graf, Navratilova and Serena Williams...I would have been so awesome..Seles would have been forgotten by really everybody unlike now by everybody except some avid fans...but that's life eh🙄@@sportstravel4129

  • @MONTE007100
    @MONTE007100 Před 8 měsíci +2

    i cant comment on time before 1970 because i was to young,,,,,but since ,there is only one female tennis player i could crown as a queen of tennis,,,,,,,,,Steffi Graf,,,,,,,,by far

  • @robwill6968
    @robwill6968 Před 5 lety +15

    Gold Era WTA

  • @rhcp1987
    @rhcp1987 Před 4 lety +30

    Graf, the greatest female of all time. Love this video. Makes everything look effortless.

    • @leofederer
      @leofederer Před 4 lety +2

      Yes, without Monica Seles, with Evert and Navratilova at end career... The luckiest player for sure, the best I don't believe..

    • @DL-my7bi
      @DL-my7bi Před 4 lety +2

      HLVS Till the end for sure she was the best of all time. Just beating all those players including Sabatini. Sanchez Vicario, won Golden Slam in 1988, longest weeks as number one in the world. All reasons for calling her the greatest of all times. Whom would you call that?

    • @achjetzt
      @achjetzt Před 4 lety +7

      @@leofederer don't be ridiculous

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +4

      @@leofederer to claim luck on behalf of such a player (with all the crises she went through herself) is just pure ignorance. Go back to your fanatic world view but spare others with your 'thoughts'.

    • @leofederer
      @leofederer Před 3 lety +1

      @@HaleG9 You can tell "fanatic" to your mother, not to me. I haven't offended anyone. It was only an opinion. Who are you for givining those kind of conclusions?

  • @silviatennismusic
    @silviatennismusic Před 4 lety +7

    Awesome Roland Garros for Steffi Graf 💝

  • @zinedinezidane3994
    @zinedinezidane3994 Před 4 lety +9

    The ball at 2:23 was in.

    • @thomasraftom5941
      @thomasraftom5941 Před 4 lety +2

      @Illya Kuryakin no mark. In. At least, empire should have made point played again. Instead of that, Hingis got penalty point and crowd against her....
      Not cool.

    • @thomasraftom5941
      @thomasraftom5941 Před 4 lety +1

      @Illya Kuryakin it was not as easy as the score says.
      And the question here was : ball in.
      You said false.
      I say in.
      The empire said in a recent itw the ball was probably in. But tennis rule say you don't replay the point if the empire don't find the mark.
      Bad tennis rule in my point of view.
      And certainly Hingis too 😉

    • @gesa5187
      @gesa5187 Před 3 lety +2

      it doesn't matter. martina behaved badly

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +1

      @@thomasraftom5941 Ridiculous. The ball was given out. There is no proof that it was not. So the decision stands. Read the rules if you have no clue.

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +2

      Given the perspective of the camera noone knows (you included). And if you do not know things better and think you have been treated wrongly, you have to accept and move on. If you cannot learn this lesson here and in life, you end up like Hingis - lost.

  • @MrOzfidelio
    @MrOzfidelio Před 3 lety +2

    the best ever, retun the king

  • @saiidabdulbaqi5015
    @saiidabdulbaqi5015 Před 2 lety +12

    Other players would have quickly fallen to Hingis and lost, but not Steffi, who has to be one of the most mentally strong players in sports history, and yes I mean both genders 🎾 💕 a true legend 🇩🇪

    • @wewanttruth8392
      @wewanttruth8392 Před rokem

      Do we still have genders? That’s cool 😎

    • @reddragonready
      @reddragonready Před 9 měsíci

      "Still have genders"..why, we have more than ever! I hear the latest count is 8,045,311,447!
      @@wewanttruth8392

  • @HaleG9
    @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +6

    To everyone complaining about the French crowd, here. Look at the US Open final 2018 (Williams-Osaka). There you will find a real mess of a crowd that deserves rejection.

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 2 lety +1

      Doesn't excuse the French crowd. Their behaviour were on par.

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 2 lety +1

      Doesn't excuse the French crowd. Their behaviour were on par.

    • @MrStumacher
      @MrStumacher Před 2 lety +6

      @@sportstravel4129 It was well deserved on Hingis` part

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 2 lety +1

      @@MrStumacher No,it wasn't deserved

    • @jamiedrury9656
      @jamiedrury9656 Před 2 lety +2

      The US Open crowd is always pretty poor. I've never seen a crowd worse than the US Open final this year with the booing of Medvedev when he tried to serve it out. Luckily he was winning by so much the crowd didn't cost him

  • @kossogol
    @kossogol Před 4 lety +6

    Lovely Steffi...

  • @alexandervonkarnstein
    @alexandervonkarnstein Před 2 lety +3

    Der Anfang vom Ende der kurzen Karriere von M. Hingis.

  • @gerishine3584
    @gerishine3584 Před 10 měsíci +1

    The only one who beat Martina that day was herself.....Steffi stayed cool and calm and her experience won out.....I remember it well.....

  • @marinavisa1101
    @marinavisa1101 Před 5 lety +11

    Steffi 👍🥎👏👏👏

  • @theotheodoropoulos9858
    @theotheodoropoulos9858 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm in love with Steffi since i was a teenager!

  • @olaraay
    @olaraay Před 5 lety +2

    full crowd here

  • @alhioscha8765
    @alhioscha8765 Před 5 lety +10

    The end of the career of Martina Hingis. Thumbs up.

    • @derhinko2359
      @derhinko2359 Před 5 lety +3

      It was not her end, Injuries stopped her great career but nonetheless she won 25 GS Titles alltogether in Singles/Doubles/Mixed

    • @fundhund62
      @fundhund62 Před 5 lety +7

      She had a glorious career, and she also matured into a great ambassador for the sport. People give her a bad rap for her behaviour during this match, but she was just 18!! Give her break. How many immature things have we done at that age?
      She is a legend in her very own right, and she made 2 very successful comebacks.
      Her calendar year Grand Slam in 1998 will not be forgotten.

    • @alhioscha8765
      @alhioscha8765 Před 5 lety +1

      @@fundhund62 How much single grand slam has she won after this match?

    • @fundhund62
      @fundhund62 Před 5 lety +2

      @@alhioscha8765 Stop artificially splitting tennis into different disciplines. She won thirteen Grand Slam titles after this match, which is a pretty amazing achievement. The last one came more than 20 years after her first one! Talk about longevity!

    • @alhioscha8765
      @alhioscha8765 Před 5 lety

      @@fundhund62 It's o.k. No one else she won...

  • @laviniaparisi9154
    @laviniaparisi9154 Před rokem +2

    I was sorry to see Martina to cry at the end of the match. Maybe the ball was in field and, after all, she was as soon as 18 years old. Then a star of the tennis that plays to high levels can't lose the hand in this manner. The public was incorrect, but Martina did everything to make herself hateful and she was boring to understimate a champion like Steffi. However I didn't think that she would never win again a Slam and that would have been her last final to Paris.

    • @pompeymeowth6379
      @pompeymeowth6379 Před 9 měsíci

      Before she came back out, she slapped an official. A very bad loser.

  • @charlesdehavilland2437
    @charlesdehavilland2437 Před 4 měsíci

    Martina was gorgeous! Small, cute, cheeky, unbelievably talented and fascinating to watch. THE best women's player of all time. Ahead of her time, she retired the old crew of Graff, Sanches-vacario, Selles, Capriati, Navratalova.

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 Před 4 měsíci +1

      You say Hingis is ‘THE best women’s player of all time’. How do you qualify that statement? Certainly her results don’t support this at all! Just curious as to how you come to this conclusion.

    • @charlesdehavilland2437
      @charlesdehavilland2437 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@scswp6945 Agreed- not in stats, as no woman can come close to the power and dominance of Serena Williams. My opinion is that Hingis had the best all round play, and for such a tiny frame she played her shots extremely well. For me she is simply the best to watch, and the most naturally talented. Who is your best woman player?

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@charlesdehavilland2437
      I absolutely agree with you that Hingis was good to watch and did have a solid all-round game. I often watch highlights of her old matches. Unfortunately, the onslaught of power tennis changed the women’s game (not for the better necessarily) and left Hingis struggling.
      I was a fan of Steffi Graf back in the nineties. I liked the way she moved and played. I think her style of play was somewhat unique and it was successful because of her movement.
      Today, I watch little women’s tennis, as I feel most of the players are ‘clones’ who all play in a similar way. Women’s tennis of the nineties (with its wider range of styles) was far more interesting to me. Hingis was an important part of that period.

    • @charlesdehavilland2437
      @charlesdehavilland2437 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@scswp6945totally agree, Steffi had great determination, and had a great personality that came across in her post match TV interviews. She and Boris ruled the courts for a while.
      My favourite Tennis moment; Goran Ivanisevic Wimbledon win 2001, and then saw his home welcoming in Croatia.

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 3 měsíci

      Oh, yeah - Higgins against Kraf, Sonchaz-Varico, Sales, Caprioli and Novritaliva!!!

  • @renescerlini1643
    @renescerlini1643 Před rokem +2

    Remember watching on tv this Hingis meltdown.
    She was obviously too young to keep up with a pressure of a GS final with Graf.
    The point at the end of 2nd set where Graf with a short ball "calls" Hingis to the net and then passing her with a backhand spin....not so usual for Graf,,...was the moment when I screamed "Foxy Steffi"....and she was one of the most cunning, tricky players in whole tennis history...her variations in solutions against her opponents were stunning.

  • @mazgaj2
    @mazgaj2 Před 5 lety +4

    8:50 cheeky!

    • @Reggie1408
      @Reggie1408 Před 4 lety

      Somehow that was seen as unsportsmanlike by the audience (and TV commentators)

  • @wilf18
    @wilf18 Před rokem +1

    Never liked the RG crowd. Most unruly and offensive of all the slams.

  • @antoniojaviergarciablanco2273

    The best match ever!!!

  • @user-ts4ew6gg2u
    @user-ts4ew6gg2u Před 4 lety

    hinges style bincic now

  • @tamastoth7068
    @tamastoth7068 Před 4 lety +2

    You French just can not pronounce the letter 'h' to save your lives. I mean it's Hingis not INGIS. Omg..

  • @roundglobesetter
    @roundglobesetter Před rokem +3

    Love Stef …. Classic player

  • @totogroove
    @totogroove Před 4 lety +4

    Just imagine playing against a French guy in France. A nightmare!

  • @isaackent2355
    @isaackent2355 Před rokem +1

    Martina DINGGIS!

  • @Esra-qz1sh
    @Esra-qz1sh Před 3 lety +2

    Dear martina 😊 you were 19 and i was 18 when i watched rthis match...

  • @marinavisa1101
    @marinavisa1101 Před 3 lety +2

    😘🍀 Steffi 🍀😘

  • @8sabu1982
    @8sabu1982 Před 3 lety +2

    Hingis into the abyss

  • @sjurhaugen8175
    @sjurhaugen8175 Před rokem +2

    Man, Steffi is so easy to like

  • @VeronicaMoon.
    @VeronicaMoon. Před 4 lety +10

    Magnifique Steffi , Hingis elle était détestable pourri gâtée

  • @leonorbasarratemadariaga2059

    Martina💖💙💖

  • @waranoid
    @waranoid Před rokem

    I remember watching this as a kid. As far as my memories go - if it wasn't for the crowd probably Hingis would win. Still a great match. Even though I still play tennis I dont enjoy watching professional matches anymore

  • @probrokers8159
    @probrokers8159 Před rokem +2

    Arrogance, fans effect, Hingis paid the price

  • @rkcamerone6954
    @rkcamerone6954 Před 4 lety +5

    Steffi Graf:
    Karrierebilanz: 900:115 Einzel
    Karrieretitel: 107
    Wochen als Nr. 1: 377
    Hingis
    Karrierebilanz: 548:135 Einzel
    Karrieretitel: 45
    Wochen als Nr. 1: 209
    Noch irgendwelche Fragen...?

    • @derhinko2359
      @derhinko2359 Před 4 lety

      Das kann man so nicht vergleichen: Martina Hingis hat ihre Karriere verletzungsbedingt schon mit 22 Jahren erstmals beenden müssen ...... wäre Sie fit geblieben hätte Sie bestimmt noch zahlreiche Titel mehr errungen

    • @marinavisa1101
      @marinavisa1101 Před 3 lety +1

      @@derhinko2359 Steffi hat die Weltrangliste viel länger angeführt und fertig 👍🍀👍

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +1

      @@derhinko2359 Das braucht man auch nicht vergleichen, weil die Hingis dazu überhaupt nicht einlädt (und das lag ganz sicher nicht nur an ihren Verletzungen - sonst hätte sie wohl kaum noch so lange Doppel gespielt). Aber die Bilanz von Graf ist selbst ziemlich klar besser als die von Serena, was die Wins angeht. Für mich ist Graf die Größte des Sports gewesen. Hingis hatte ich bis heute eigentlich vergessen. Wenn mir jemand leid tut, dann ist es Monica Seles.

  • @user-kg4ej6fx7t
    @user-kg4ej6fx7t Před 9 měsíci +1

    Очень жаль что Мартина Хингис проиграла этот финал. 😢😢😢

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Never saw a player who deserved more to lose a slam final.
      Maybe Serena against Osaka.

  • @mcvicarross7
    @mcvicarross7 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I'd forgot how much of a spoilt brat Hingus was!! 😂 .. Graf was AMAZING (her return in Slams was unbelievable) she'd won 21 by the time she was only 26!! Retired at 30. Serena had 2 play ALOT longer 2 get her figures. I've still not saw a female player that could lace Steffi's tennis shoes!! 😂😂

  • @TomazBobnar
    @TomazBobnar Před 4 lety +12

    I remember watching that final. A very poor display from the French crowd, booing Hingis and at the end driving her to tears. She was basically a kid then at 18.

    • @Vipa567
      @Vipa567 Před 4 lety +2

      @Illya Kuryakin have you seen Mauresmo? Calling her half a man is a compliment.

    • @HIMYMTR
      @HIMYMTR Před 4 lety +1

      @Illya Kuryakin says something about your sexuality

    • @erikthehalfabee6234
      @erikthehalfabee6234 Před 3 lety +8

      She was a 5 time grand slam champion. and she behaved badly in that final. The crowd is too harsh but she and her team are definitely to be blamed as well.

    • @HIMYMTR
      @HIMYMTR Před 3 lety

      @Illya Kuryakin she is objectively not attractive, the fact that you consider her attractive means you're probably gay or bi

    • @HIMYMTR
      @HIMYMTR Před 3 lety

      @Ilya Kuryakin agree with u there

  • @hansmuller5879
    @hansmuller5879 Před 2 lety

    Dindn´t know Steffi only had a Slice Backhand

  •  Před 2 lety

    tennis 6:18

  • @olaraay
    @olaraay Před 5 lety

    at 3.33 why speak in english ?! its a fresh bloody tournament

  • @olaraay
    @olaraay Před 5 lety +1

    ur a set and a break up just play tennis and beat graf ! but nooooooo!

  • @beavertown2006
    @beavertown2006 Před 3 lety

    I was happy that Steffi won but clearly the umpire did check the wrong mark whether it was on purpose. Hingis didn't handle the situation well.

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +2

      There were too many marks obviously to determine the correct one. These things happen in Tennis. If you cannot deal with it, you are no champion. it is as easy as that.

  • @furkans9880
    @furkans9880 Před 11 měsíci

    L audience

  • @laserluddite
    @laserluddite Před 2 lety +2

    love the underarm serve :)

  • @pupulique
    @pupulique Před 4 lety +2

    Hardwork beat a genius (together with parisiens and the umpire)

    • @pupulique
      @pupulique Před 4 lety

      Illya Kuryakin More ugly one

    • @greyworm1791
      @greyworm1791 Před 4 lety +2

      piano forte rofl... as if Hingis is a beauty queen 😂😂😂

    • @achjetzt
      @achjetzt Před 4 lety +1

      @@greyworm1791 They were both gorgeous and you are both idiots and definitely not the ones to judge the worth of either woman

  • @levinomiro4386
    @levinomiro4386 Před 10 měsíci

    Hingis was better

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 5 měsíci

      Yeah, that’s why Steffi won 107 points and Hingis 93, you clown.

  • @sebseb8047
    @sebseb8047 Před 5 lety +7

    French s crowd is so bad

    • @cokomoko7
      @cokomoko7 Před 5 lety +4

      No it's just passionate.

    • @sebseb8047
      @sebseb8047 Před 5 lety +5

      A crowd is not here to punish, it is not a tribunal ... Punish is not a word from sport

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +2

      @@sebseb8047 But acting self-righteous, arrogant and unsportive are words you are familiar with in sports, right? Hingis can only blame herself.

  • @alexutzu24ianuarie
    @alexutzu24ianuarie Před 5 lety +1

    Woman’s tennis evolved a lot in 20 years. Men’s no that much, it was already at a high level in 1999

    • @scampsweep
      @scampsweep Před 5 lety +13

      John Mitchelson
      Yes, you’re right - it has evolved. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it has evolved in a positive way. The players, now assisted by massive advances in racquet technology, all play the same way. That is to say, there are masses of players all of whom stand at the baseline pelting forehands and double-handed backhands. There is far less variety and, in my opinion, watching one match is very like watching another...or another. Everything seems ‘cloned’ and this has done a major disservice to women’s tennis. In the 80s and 90s (and earlier), there seemed far more variety and players did strategise and adapt their game for different opponents. The evolution of women’s tennis has taken it into a very unfavourable direction and I believe this is proven by reduced attendances and television audiences in recent years. This match is one from a golden era of women’s tennis. Nowadays, it’s almost a case of ‘you’ve seen one match, you’ve seen them all.’ I, for one, feel sad for the sport and I no longer take an interest in the women’s side. I don’t really see what the WTA can do about the current situation of the game either.

    • @hill4252
      @hill4252 Před 5 lety

      @@scampsweep absolutely agree

    • @olaraay
      @olaraay Před 5 lety +1

      @@scampsweep thats the same in mens tennis majority are baseline bashers who finish points at the net with a floater

    • @fundhund62
      @fundhund62 Před 5 lety +2

      Tennis on the whole has made a huge step backwards over the last 30 years. People today don´t have remotely the skills or tactical understanding that their predecessors had.
      Federer is the one-eyed man in the land of the blind (that´s how you win 20+ major titles), but the rest is hardly watchable.

    • @rockst4r90
      @rockst4r90 Před 5 lety

      @@fundhund62 lol

  • @ardakarabacak
    @ardakarabacak Před rokem +2

    It’s funny how Steffi needed the umpire, the lines-people, and the whole crowd to beat an 18 year old teenager Martina Hingis

    • @sylvaineusebe2924
      @sylvaineusebe2924 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Hingis was arrogant. She did sabotage her match (and sadly her career - though I would never have believed after this match she would never get another GS title in single) alone.
      Few things : like mentioned in other commentaries she was rude towards Graf in interviews. You also need to remember her words about Mauresmo back at the AO 1999 before the final. French people did not forget that. Hingis got support during all her run in RG 1999, even in 2nd Round vs Mauresmo...
      However if you add this : arrogance in final, unsportswomanship, disrespect towards a tennis legend during a final... yeah at the end of the day you have the crowd against you. HOPEFULLY. Crowd does not have to suffer an arrogant and insulting little girl as a winner, however talented she might be.

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 5 měsíci

      The excuses Graf haters have never stop - and I‘m loving their impotence!

    • @ardakarabacak
      @ardakarabacak Před 4 měsíci

      @@carrerau7138 what's funnier is you having made a career out of making the same excuses against Serena. The only notable difference between us is that your statements are pure bias and mine actually hold ground

  • @jeannechristale6613
    @jeannechristale6613 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Martina Hingis was a prodigy. I feel ashamed for this stupid crowd. They broke the life of a young genius.

  • @derhinko2359
    @derhinko2359 Před 5 lety +7

    It was so unfair, Hingis deserved this victory....as a big Martina Hingis Fan i cried with her

    • @WONGLER
      @WONGLER Před 5 lety +2

      Als Deutscher hab ich mich zwar damals für Graf gefreut aber Martina wurde beschissen von der miesen Schiedsrichterin und das asoziale Publikum hat sie psychisch verstört , Martina war bildhübsch damals

    • @MrRoztoc
      @MrRoztoc Před 4 lety +5

      @@WONGLER Ähm, nö.

    • @adamlarsson3828
      @adamlarsson3828 Před 4 lety +3

      terrible, ugly win for Graf when Hingis played such beautiful tennis.
      horrible crowd on Martina’s back, too.
      absolutely shameful!

    • @filmover9843
      @filmover9843 Před 4 lety +5

      @@adamlarsson3828 The intelligence beat the stupidity.

    • @rkcamerone6954
      @rkcamerone6954 Před 4 lety +1

      @@WONGLER Alter, was bist Du denn für ein Psycho? ERSCHRECKEND!

  • @adamlarsson3828
    @adamlarsson3828 Před 2 lety +2

    Hingis was so much better and far more talented than Graf.
    a dreadful shame that this match ended with such a horrible result.

    • @k-man8284
      @k-man8284 Před 2 lety +4

      Right. And u do believe in aliens, too - Lololol 😂🤣🤣🤣😂

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 5 měsíci

      Yeah, that‘s why Steffi won 6 FOs and Hingis zero, you clown.

  • @Richardtv1968
    @Richardtv1968 Před 3 lety +3

    The greatest of all time would have been Monica Seles .....unfortunately a ‘Steffi Graf fan’ ended Monica’s career stabbing her in the shoulder as he could not cope with the fact that Seles was being far better ...... but you all forgot about that ofcourse!

    • @th8257
      @th8257 Před 3 lety +7

      We'll never know, sadly. But it's far from certain what Monica's future would have been. Firstly, she wasn't particularly robust physically. In 1993 alone, she'd had to take several months off due to illness. Hamburg was her first tournament back. She'd also had to skip the likes of Wimbledon in 1991 due to injury. given that injury forced her out of the game in the end, it's very possible that injury would have been a factor in her career if she hasn't been stabbed. Secondly, Monica had had a great few years. Every player who has that kind of success then goes through a slump. It happened to Roger Federer, Djokovic, Borg, McEnroe, Wilander, Navratilova and Graf herself. It's simply not possible to keep on dominating like that - the physical and mental strain is massive. As early as 1991, Monica started talking about problems she was having with food. Playing at the very highest level like that leaves players with a kind of post traumatic stress disorder. Roger Federer apparently used to wake up in the middle of the night in a state of panic. Steffi talked about how she was so mentally exhausted after completing the grand slam that she couldn't leave her hotel room. Chris Evert once had to ask Mary Carillo for help after a match because she was so tense that she couldn't let go of her racquet. That's the kind of stress Monica was dealing with. There was no possible way she'd be able to keep the form of 1991 and 1992 going for many more years without getting absolutely mentally and physically exhausted.

    • @HaleG9
      @HaleG9 Před 3 lety +5

      I have not forgotten about that. And it is a shame it happened, true. I still claim that Steffi is the best of all times. Seles would have been a long standing competitor, sure. The rest is speculation and that she was 'far better' is undenyably false.

    • @msmilano7091
      @msmilano7091 Před 2 lety +1

      What happened to MS doesn’t take anything away from Steffi’s hard work & talent. She was a master of this sport

    • @k-man8284
      @k-man8284 Před 2 lety +1

      Monica who...? 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣

    • @carrerau7138
      @carrerau7138 Před 5 měsíci

      Seles ended her career in 2003.

  • @sportstravel4129
    @sportstravel4129 Před 4 lety +1

    The French crowd pathetic and rude as ever. Steffi Graf cheating her way to get the "win". The ball was in and she knew it. Hingis was outplaying her but the crowd took it upon itself to play judge and jury and punish her opponent.
    Graf's 22 GS "wins", 377 weeks at number one, titles won post Seles stabbing will always be tainted.

    • @DL-my7bi
      @DL-my7bi Před 4 lety +10

      Just shut up and be honest to yourself that those achievements are outstanding. She had nothing to do with the attack at Seles. This was complete maniac who did this all by his own.

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 4 lety +1

      @@DL-my7bi Now why would I shut up? Freedom of speech, you know. Seems to be a thing with Graf fandom - insulting anybody who doesn't praise her. While Graf didn't attack Seles, it's just a fact that she would have far less GS, titles & weeks at number one without the stabbing.

    • @achjetzt
      @achjetzt Před 4 lety +7

      @@sportstravel4129 "freedom of speech", pf, calm down, nobody's coming to arrest you. They are *free* to tell you to shut up when you talk complete nonsense like that.

    • @msmilano7091
      @msmilano7091 Před 2 lety +5

      Martina isn’t the only player to have a decision go against her. It happens in every sport. You move on and get your head back in the game.
      Steffi was one of the finest players tennis has ever seen.

    • @sportstravel4129
      @sportstravel4129 Před 2 lety +1

      @@msmilano7091 Sure, but more than 20 years later this Martina Hingis was a "spoiled
      brat” & Steffi Graf was “ classy” (she was never Miss Congeniality & made some unpleasant remarks too) narrative that is still being pushed is as disingenuous as ever and doesn’t tell the whole story.
      Imagine, being a 17-18 years old girl playing for a GS title with all the (media) pressure and scrutiny that comes with it. As a singles player you are pretty much alone on the court. Couple that with the
      judgey & hypocritical French crowd booing you from start to finish, your opponent enabling the booing & knowing your ball was in. The umpire falling to keep the crowd under control, etc... Professional
      athletes are humans too & everybody has a breaking point.
      Yeah, crossing over the net was wrong and she was penalized and fined for it. I remember Navratilova doing the same but she never got the same hate for it. As for the underarm serve, it’s a legit shot. Michael Chang did it a couple years before her and the same Parisian crowd cheered him on. Nowadays, it’s considered a genius move and pretty much everybody is doing it.