The Rivals
Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendshi p
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-41949-1
- EAN: 9780307419491
- Produktnummer: 29174431
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'052 KB
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JOHNETTE HOWARD is an award-winning sports columnist for Newsday who previously worked as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and as a columnist at the Washington Post. Her work was included in The Best American Sports Writing of the 20th Century, and her columns were nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general commentary. She lives in New York City.
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