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It has been published for over forty years and it has been available online for over ten years. It was purchased by The New York Times Company in 1967. Miller Publishing bought the magazine in 1997.Aside from articles about the most recent events and most active players, the magazine also includes the recent ranking for both ATP and WTA, as well as brief summaries of the future tournaments, their participants and the past winners.Tennis legend Chris Evert became the publisher as of the March, 2001 issue.[4] She has her own personal section in the magazine, usually the first page, which is called "Chrissies Page."Aside from Christ Evert, other famous players and coaches also contribute to the magazine. Paul Annacone, former coach of Pete Sampras, is the Senior Instruction Editor and Brad Gilbert, former coach of Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, is Touring Instruction Editor. Pete Sampras himself is a part owner and a special consultant of the magazine. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Excellent read
A wonderful read. In depth of chris and martina throughout their rivalry of twenty years. I admired both players and hardly ever missed a match. If you want more insight into these two women's lives purchase it. I highly recommend this read for any tennis fan. It is fabulous!

Great....but Now Dated
There's no question that the Evert-Navratilova (or, more properly, the Navratilova-Evert) rivalry was one of the most compelling in sports. Howard's book was/is chock-full of superb details about almost EVERY aspect of this on-court saga, which started in the early '70s and lasted until 1987, with Navratilova edging Evert by an almost freakishly slim margin in terms of matches won/lost, yet both women ended-up equal at a mind-boggling 18 Grand Slams apiece. This was an era of grandeur & greatness that will never be duplicated, in terms of two potent rivals competing at the same time.

It was a constant, exciting drama, and Howard covers all of the "baselines." Evert, the little "Princess" against Navratilova, who was the...um...TOUGH-girl.

These women were extraordinary foils for each other, and sport will never see the like of it again. Evert (despite being utterly confused and uncertain in her early days) had minimal athletic "gifts," but consistency, coordination, strategy, and the inner-aggression of a venegeful demon.

Navratilova was erratic and confused for most of *her* early career, but she also had raw potency that gave her rivals nightmares. When she eventually slimmed her body (and mind) to a razor's edge, she started beating Evert like a bongo drum from 1983-1985 (13 humiliating wins in a row).

Howard explores the mindsets of both champions in their prime, and how they dealt with each other, but she failed to really capture the magnificence with which Evert finally overcame her massive slump against the souped-up, hard-working, powerhouse Martina.

Evert hit the gym a bit, and switched to a graphite racquet in 1984, but she did not essentially change her game against Martina. She didn't start rushing the net or serving aces. What made the difference is that Evert (with a very little extra muscle and a new racquet) was able to suddenly hit powerful, sharply angled cross-court forehands and open-up the court in a way she had not been able to do previously against the Navratilova game, putting more pressure than before upon the lefty backhand of Martina...and then using her best-of-all-time backhand to put-away crosscourt shots more aggressively.

In all truth, it was this combination that made a huge difference for Evert. Too, some spectacular Grand Slam wins (French Open 85, 86) gave her some psychological ammunition.

The trouble with this book, now, is that Howard makes such a point of "contrast" in the "off-court" lives of the two champs. Navratilova comes across as the personal "flake," in many respects, with her controversial lesbian relationships, while emphasis is placed upon Evert as being far more "typical." For Howard, Navratilova is often wrecked by her romantic "choices," while one failed "Evert marriage" is utterly redeemed by an everlasting love (to skier Andy Mill)--a union that Evert (and Howard) celebrates with enthusiasm, replete with the darling children to 'complete' the image.

The problem is that Howard focused too much upon this latter aspect, and Evert has, in very recent times, proved herself stunningly capable of horrific public "choices" via her involvement in a terribly intrusive marital scandal. She jettisoned Mill, her husband of nearly 20 years, to take-up with high-profile golfer Greg Norman, and opted (sadly) to appear intimately with him in public while he was still married, and vice versa. In a grotesque miscalculation, the irony is that Evert tarnished her image (which Howard wrote about so admantly) by public appearances that belittled and humiliated her ex-husband and Norman's wife...most conspicuously and dismayingly on the very day that the latter's divorce was final...by canoodling in the crowd at the US Open.

This aspect would not be mentioned had not Howard spilled so much ink in this book documenting Evert as such an extraordinarily happy wife and family-woman with Mill (after the utter failure of her first union with John Lloyd). Since, Evert has conducted herself with actions that do obliterate Howard's carefully delineated portrayal in the book, and, because such issues are so very important and pertinent to this actualbook, certain aspects of the"rivalry" are now dated and odd.

Now, it is surprising how much easier it has become to adopt Navratilova as the much greater of the two. Again, Howard wrote an excellent account of the actual rivalry, with Evert's "public image" ever at the forefront. That aspect has been radically changed, within the context of Howard's treatment, and I (for one) am now glad that Martina had the upper-hand against Chris...and I never thought I'd say that...in my life.

In any case, get this book for a striking, extraordinary analysis of what was likely the greatest one-on-one rivalry in the history of all sport, between two of the greatest, most unforgiving and ferocious competitors. It's amazing.

ICE PRINCESS VS NAVRAT
THIS IS A VERY INTERESTING AND WELL WRITTEN BOOK ABOUT THE TENNIS RIVALRY CONCERNING CHRIS EVERT AND MARTINA NAVRATILOVA. THERE MATCHES WERE LEGEND DURING THE 1980'S. THE BOOK COVERS ALOT MORE THAN JUST THIS. IT GIVES A LOOK AT THE PRIVATE LIVES OF CHRISSIE AND MARTINA. CHRISSIE HAD PROBLEMS WITH MARRIED LIFE.MARTINA ADMITTED TO BE BEING GAY AND ALSO DEFECTED FROM HER HOME COUNTRY OF CZECHOLSLOVAKIA TO ESCAPE COMMUNISM. THEY BOTH ARE LEGENDS IN THE TENNIS WORLD AND HELPED THE GROWTH OF TENNIS TO THE VERY POPULAR SPORT IT IS TODAY. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK AND RECOMMEND IT FOR ALL SPORTS FANS. THE AUTHOR DOES A GREAT JOB SHOWING US THE HUMAN SIDE OF BOTH RIVALS

Game, Set and Match
This book offers an insightful look into the lives of Martina and Chris.
If you're a fan of either you'll enjoy their perspectives individually.
If you're a fan of both...all the better for you.You will read how each supported, coaxed, teased, fought, encouraged and ultimately validated each other and each other's career.
I think this book de-mythologizes much of what we've heard before about Chris and Martina's relationship.At the same time, it re-inforces things we already knew, but adds a little more depth:incredible friends, incredible rivals...A friendship that transcends their rivalry and a rivalry that transcended sport.

A Literary Second Serve
In The Rivals, a middling addition to the tennis book industry, Johnette Howard argues that the Evert-Navratilova rivalry both reflected and changed women's tennis and women's role in professional sports.Fair enough.She also portrays the rivals as two intelligent, highly skilled and articulate women whose friendship was tested and strengthened by their on-court competition.Fair enough again.Also, the book is a quick, good read, albeit in the style of a 270 page sports column, where everybody always talks in the present tense.When all that is conceded though, what new perspective or insight does The Rivals bring to the party?In my view, not much, if anything, that couldn't be found by reading the autobiographies of the two champions, which Howard generously cites frequently.As for the writing on tennis here, there is nothing that can come close to John McPhee's classic Levels of the Game in recreating the context, tension, and skill of tennis at the highest levels. ... Read more

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A biography of Chris Evert, whose dedication to practice and hard work brought her to the top of the tennis world. ... Read more

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This is Chris Evert at her Greatest
Through all her trials and tribulation chris has always emerged as winner.One quote which sums up chris evert career Wimbledon quote "IF YOU CAN FACE TRIUMP AND DISASTER AND TREAT THOSE TWO IMPOSTERS JUST THE SAME THEN YOU ARE A CHAMPION" chris evert face should be engraved in thesewords.... Thanks, Chris for the Memories

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Tennis greatest tennis player of all time reveals her life.
This book give you a small look at chris evert at her best. She reveals the pain and glory of her career. What makes this book so great was that through all her ups and downs of her career she has maintain her feminity with grace and charm. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 812 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Could have been better, but...
The book is not well written.There are huge gaps, little of Evert's sense of humor, or the bite that Navratilova's book has.However, this biography does offer insight into Evert's youth, her upbringing, her break from her parents, and her domination of tennis in the mid to late 70s.Neil Amdur should have "tighten" the strings, net, whatever, to get the book under control, and also told Chris to let her gaurd down when assessing opponents such as Navratilova or Mandlikova.However, Evert's book is valuable, readable, and contains her records at grand slams ,Federation Cup, until 1981.

Fragmented failing attempt to say something meaningful
I was stunned by this book.Many of the sentences were words put together in a such a way that absolutely NOTHING was communicated by them.I must have said to myself "huh?" about 100 times while reading this book.There's no flow, no point and nothing interesting in it.If you want to read an interesting book about women's tennis, read Martina Navratilova's book instead.I own both and believe me, the difference is night and day.I always respected Chrissie so much for her demeanor on court, and the way she has conducted herself in life.It's a GOOD THING I don't judge her on this book.It's the worst book I've ever read.Utterly meaningless, and the way she tries to give it meaning by saying something about reaching for your goals in the last paragraph is hilariously missing the way too little way too late mark.It's so bad it's funny and that's the truth. ... Read more

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In March 1973 two women met on a tennis court in Akron, Ohio. Over the course of the next sixteen years, together they would change the world. There has never been a sporting rivalry to match the intensity, longevity, public impact and emotional resonance of the eighty-match-long duel between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert. In their long careers Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert played each other eighty times, sixty of those in finals. For nearly two decades we were transfixed by the struggle between the ice-maiden Chris - blonde, all-American, a nation's sweetheart - and the supreme athlete Martina, a Czech defector, the first outspoken openly gay athlete in female sport, and a woman who wore her heart on her sleeve at all times. Their careers played out against the backdrop of seismic change in tennis and society, and, together, they helped change the face of women's sport. Thirty years on from that first meeting, both have become legends. Based on interviews with both Martina and Chris and those who knew them best, Johnette Howard gives us their remarkable story. ... Read more

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A biography of Chris Evert, a young American tennis player who won the Wimbledon championship in 1974. ... Read more