Chris Evert Martina Navratilova Grand Slam Finals

Author : John Maguire
Publisher : John Maguire
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova Grand Slam Finals written by John Maguire and published by John Maguire. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to this series of Short Talking Books. This volume focuses on the careers of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in their respective Grand Slam Finals. The book is written in a conversational question and answer format. The print size offers an easier read for small devices like mobile phones.

Author : Johnette Howard
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307419495
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rivals written by Johnette Howard and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of sports, no individual rivalry matches the intensity, longevity, and emotional resonance of the one between two extraordinary women: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Over sixteen years, Evert and Navratilova met on the tennis court a record eighty times—sixty times in finals. At their first match in Akron, Ohio, in 1973, Chris was an eighteen-year-old star and Martina, two years her junior, was an unknown Czech making her first trip to the United States. It would be two years before Martina finally beat Chris, and another year—after Navratilova had dropped twenty pounds and improved her game—before Evert publicly betrayed her first hint of concern. By then, the women were already friends and sometimes doubles partners, and the colorful story that would captivate the world was under way. The Rivals is the first book to examine the intertwined journey of these legendary champions, based on extensive interviews with each. Taking readers on and off the courts with vivid, never-before-published material, award-winning sportswriter Johnette Howard shows how Evert and Navratilova came of age during the rambunctious golden age of tennis in the 1970s, and how—together—they redefined women’s athletics during a time of volcanic change in sports and society. Their epic careers unfolded against the backdrop of the fight for Title IX, the gay rights movement, the women's movement and the fall of the iron curtain. Howard draws entertaining, intimate, and myth-shattering portraits of Evert and Navratilova, describing the personal migrations each woman made, and showing how enmeshed their lives became. Navratilova and Evert’s ability to forge and maintain a friendship during sixteen years of often-cutthroat competition has always provoked wonder and admiration. They were a study in contrasts, a collision of politics and style and looks. Chris was the crowd darling while Martina, her greatest foil, was often cast as the villain. Chris was the imperturbable champion who proved toughness and femininity weren’t mutually exclusive; Martina was portrayed as both emotionally fragile and some fearsome Amazon. Chris’s off-court life was presumed to be bedrock solid, the stuff of Main Street America; Martina’s was derided as outrageous and sometimes chaotic, even during her invincible years. Yet, through it all, the two remained friends who lifted each other to heights that each says she couldn’t have reached without the other. Women’s tennis now is more popular than ever, thanks in large part to the trailblazing of Evert and Navratilova. A rivalry like theirs, filled with so many grace notes, is unique in sports history.

Author : Johnette Howard
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 : 9780224075053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rivals written by Johnette Howard and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the intertwined journey of legendary champions Chris Everet and Martina Navratilova, based on extensive interviews with each, takes readers on and off the courts with vivid, never-before-published material.

Author : Jane Mersky Leder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896862524
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martina Navratilova written by Jane Mersky Leder and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the tennis player, originally from Czechoslovakia, who was ranked as the top woman tennis player in the world in 1978, 1979, 1982, and 1983, and has become the highest-paid woman athlete in history.

Author : Martina Navratilova
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martina written by Martina Navratilova and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The private and public life of the top tennis player in the world, who used to dream of living in America and of being Centre Court at Wimbledon when she was a young child in Czechoslovakia.

Author : Edward F. Dolan
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martina Navratilova written by Edward F. Dolan and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the tennis player who defected from Czechoslovakia to join the Cleveland Nets tennis team.

Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328637247
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory Days written by L. Jon Wertheim and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.

Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1725348543
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serena vs. Venus vs. Sharapova vs. Navratilova written by Gary Wiener and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening book compares the lives and careers of four great women's tennis players: Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova and Martina Navratilova. Each of these women is a legend, but which of these on-court superstars is the GOAT, or the greatest of all time? Using basic math and analytical principles, readers will learn to sort out what makes each of these four great champions unique and to draw conclusions about their relative abilities. Among the statistics that will be considered are career wins, grand slam victories, percentage of games and sets won, and head-to-head matchups.

Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763673080
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martina & Chrissie written by Phil Bildner and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the friendship and rivalry of tennis stars Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.

Author : Erin Butler
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 148965268X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennis Legends written by Erin Butler and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Wimbledon tennis tournament was held in 1877. Today, tennis is a highly paid professional sport. From Roger Federer to Venus and Serena Williams, discover the game’s greatest players and their achievements in Tennis Legends, a Hall of Fame book. This series invites readers to explore some of the best-loved sports in the United States. Each book pairs fascinating facts with brilliant photography to showcase the history, statistics, championships, and legends of each sport.