French Open Finale 1987 Martina Navratilova - Steffi Graf

The women's final. Martina in past matches. That'll fly. And couldn't handle it. Also the wind blew this one out of bounds and really got to concentrate. Just a little bit. Playing that's aggressively. Try to get in and take the net position. When you start to lose a couple of matches, people are very quick to write you off. Keep it low and let the wind take its course. Two break points now to Navratilova. A bit mixed up. There's a nervous double full. And again a good volley. When Graf is hitting her ground strokes and keeping you deep. Back to juice. That backhand pretty much goes cross-court. Martina's anticipated that three or four times. She doesn't have quite as much margin for error as Graf does. Three set points. And confident. Percentages. 76 for Martina and 70 for Steffi Graf. Through tournament play. That's the situation. Steffi Graf. She's not nervous. She's calm. She's well within herself. She is that indeed. Though she's down a break point here. That's out. So Martina gets a break and she now leads two games to one. Tina to serve here at 2-1. From Martina. Everyone talks and concentrates extremely well. Not meaning to hit her of course. That's the situation. A grass court for Steffi so that she can get match practice time for Wimbledon. Again is invincible like she felt last couple of years. She did all last year and she's not won a tournament yet. Plenty of time with that chip approach. As many tournaments as she would have liked to have. Is now trailing 2-4 in the second set. City House here at Roland-Garros. Good approach. Down the middle. Serve. That takes one of her weapons away. Pay attention to get a deep serve in. All important. Fred Stolle's seventh game. Probably the most important is the last one Betsy. So that's the situation here in the women's finals. Dictate the play. And say to Martina, hey I can't just cover the cross court. Added step. Missed it. Don't have a lot of wind up here at least blowing from the trees. It's blowing from us. Those things bother her. She's a real champion. She's been around too long. For Steffi Graf to take the lead at 5-4. Final. Another top spin backhand cross court. She knew where it was going to go and was ready. Good first serve. Now Ratalova wins the set 6-4 after one hour. Particularly when she has Steffi on the run like that. That ball hit the service line. Top spin backhand cross court. Steffi was lucky there. Welcome back. Martina to serve. Wasn't able to capitalize on it. Steffi looking for a forehand. For a girl of such a young age. Number one on the ranking. After a double fault. View of some of our cabins over here where we do our work. Come in and should be in pretty good shape. That's long. Deuce. First game of this third set. Backhand cross court. And Martina's picked them. High over the top of the ball. A great volley. Couldn't have been better right in the corner. Well there's the one. Devastating. Forty-fifteen. At the forehand volley. Steffi's father. Contemplating. And we're a set apiece and two all. That's the way it should be. And that slice backhand. But I think the same mold. Was shorter preparation. It is. She's sitting on that. As Martina closes in. Great point. And Martina Navratilova. Has broken serve and leads three-two. The service court. Love fifteen. Well played. So to serve for a set or for a match. For some reason. We can't explain why. But it is. There it is. West German youngster. Martina's got to play that net game. That's the only way she's going to win this event. Is to keep the pressure on. To keep this one low. But Martina sits there on the volley. That's gone. Martina's broken back. A very determined Martina Navratilova. Has gotten her service break back. Boy that surprised me. Still moving but she got away with it. Fifteen all. Still a game point for Martina. No more boy. Her great sportsmanship. By just giving a clap on the racket. Back even. Came back at it. Mental toughness. We'll see what happens here. This was the end where Steffi was able to break her the last time. She serves another double. On that particular shot. Good serve. That's how deep it is. If I don't make a good shot I'm going to get beat. And that's how you end it. On that forehand volley. Right ready. There's top on it. Let's let things. Perpetuous. Wants to put it away in a hurry. And has lost them because of that. Well played. Chance against Andres Yared and Robert Seguso. So we got more good tennis for you. Max is now six all. They're going to tie break. They ran it down to zero. They're back up now to six all. Martina. Sitting right on that one again. Break point. Hold the microphone. Hardly speak at the moment. That's gone. Graff holds serve. Believe me. She knows it. To Graff's credit she did try to top it. Powers.