Focus only on getting better.” Extremely sound advice! Janine Thompson, Graf’s second victim Down Under, spoke for many of her fellow players when she said, “We had played only one game when I asked myself, ‘What the hell am I going to do?’”. Martina was the six-time defending champion, and she was 8-0 in finals on Centre Court. This is the end of a chapter, passing the torch if you want to call it that.”. David Douillet writes judo history in Sydney in 2000, Kim Rhode aiming for seven out of seven at Tokyo 2020. 1 Martina Hingis of Switzerland. Venus Williams won her first Games titles 19 years ago, and she hasnât finished yet! [1] This was Graf's third step towards completing the first, and so far only, Calendar Year Golden Slam. Not only did she become the first player in 18 years to capture the Holy Grail of tennis, the calendar-year Grand Slam, she became the first and so far only player to go the Grail one better and add an Olympic gold medal in the same year. Then along came John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, who played more games, 138, in their breaker-less fifth set alone in 2010. Still, going into 1988, Graf had one major title under her belt; she had broken through and beaten world No. Graf remains one of the greatest champions in the history of her sport. Sabatini was waiting for her in the gold-medal match, but she didn’t have to wait long. 1. On 5 June 1999, backed by a passionate central court crowd at Roland Garros, Graf won an epic final 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 against world no. After Graf took a 5-3 lead in the first set, Navratilova won six straight games allowing her to win the first set and take the lead in the second set. (AP). La saison 1988 de la Women's Tennis Association (WTA) est marquée par le cavalier seul de Steffi Graf sur le circuit féminin. Four Grand Slam wins and an Olympic title in the same year – a feat that no male or female player had achieved before or has done since. All of which made for a very tense afternoon when the two friends faced off in the U.S. Open final, with Graf one win from the Grand Slam. First-seeded Steffi Graf defeated the record six-time defending champion Martina Navratilova in the final, 5–7, 6–2, 6–1 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1988 Wimbledon Championships. To that point, she had been as imperious as ever, losing just 13 games in her first five matches (the sixth was a walkover against Evert in the semifinals). Her forehand, which she clubbed from every part of the court, was quickly recognized as an evolutionary leap for the shot. Épreuve conjointement organisée par l'United States Tennis Association et la Lawn Tennis Association. 20/06/1988 The Championships Wimbledon: G. Chelem: 1 717 085: Gazon (ext.) The new Olympic Channel brings you news, highlights, exclusive behind the scenes, live events and original programming, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Yet again, she dropped a minimal number of games on the DecoTurf surface at Flushing Meadows and took full advantage of Evert’s forfeit in the semi-final. American star Chris Evert, meanwhile, failed to take a set off Graf in three matches. Later she defended her French open final against Natasha Zvereva 6–0, 6–0 in a 34-minute final. After grabbing that torch, it was fitting that Graf would complete the last two legs of her Golden Slam against a player of her own generation, Gabriela Sabatini. “I’m very sorry it was so fast,” she said as she held the trophy. In the process, Graf dissolved the age-old division between net-rusher and baseliner that had defined the biggest rivalry of the previous era, Martina Navratilova vs. Chris Evert. The Golden Slam, tennis’s Holy Grail plus one, was a reality. She was absolutely right – the term “Golden Slam” was born at that exact moment. Then on 11 September in New York, Graf became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year since Australia’s Margaret Smith-Court in 1970. The Rally: Is tennis' GOAT debate worth having in the first place? “My backhand was terrible,” Graf admitted later. Graf would have a chance to go one better than Budge, and the rest of the sport’s single-year Slammers. Les Espagnoles Arantxa Sánchez Vicario et Conchita Martínez, seize ans l'une et l'autre, soulèvent chacune le premier trophée de leur prolifique carrière. But speedy Steffi hadn’t left Martina in the dust just yet. The USA’s Andre Agassi sealed his “Career Golden Slam” with the gold medal at Atlanta 1996, Spain’s Rafael Nadal did so at Beijing 2008 and American Serena Williams completed hers at London 2012. The Czech bounced back to beat her in the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in ’87. She ended the 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, and 1996 tennis seasons as the world’s top-ranked player. At Wimbledon, Graf finally got her shot at Navratilova in a major final. Either way, Graf romped to the title without losing a set, and beat Evert in the final. 1 was in peerless form on the clay courts of Roland Garros. The semi-final match between Chris Evert and Navratilova was the last time they faced each other in a Grand Slam, with Navratilova extending her lead in their head-to-head rivalry in Grand Slam tournaments to 14-8. Steffi Graf, After winning all four Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic gold was the final tennis treasure left for Graf to claim—which she did convincingly. This time, though, it wasn’t Evert who helped smooth her path to victory, it was 17-year-old Natasha Zvereva. Graf, meanwhile, was back to defend her Olympic title on the clay courts of Barcelona 1992, where she took silver after losing to the USA’s Jennifer Capriati in the final. She always said: “I never look back, I look forward,” but she also said: “You can't measure success if you have never failed. The Argentine turned 18 that year, and she and Graf often played doubles together. Simple dames du tournoi de Wimbledon 1988, site de l'ITF – fiche complète de l'épreuve, Palmarès du simple dames du tournoi de Wimbledon, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Simple_dames_du_tournoi_de_Wimbledon_1988&oldid=161082455, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. It was, if nothing else, a chance for Steffi Graf to win another title. Loin derrière, Martina Navrátilová s'impose à neuf reprises en tournoi, mais déçoit en grand chelem avec une seule finale à Wimbledon (perdue 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 face à Graf alors qu'elle menait 7-5, 2-0). Résultats des tournois de tennis organisés par la WTA en 1988[1]. In 1988, tennis became an Olympic sport again for the first time since 1924. Her rivalries with Yugoslavia’s Monica Seles and Spain’s Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the 1980s and 1990s have gone down in tennis folklore. On 24 January 1988, on a Rebound Ace surface on Centre Court in Melbourne, Graf took on Evert in the final of the Australian Open. “I was confident before the match,” Graf said, “but the first set made me very angry. This was Graf's third step towards completing the first, and so far only, Calendar Year Golden Slam. Her glittering career saw her occupy the world no.1 spot for a total of 377 weeks (a record), including a run of 186 consecutive weeks between August 1987 and March 1991. Steffi Graf et Gabriela Sabatini battent Larisa Savchenko-Neiland et Natasha Zvereva en finale de cette édition ; il s'agit du 1 er succès de cette équipe dans les tournois du Grand Chelem et de leur 5 e titre sur le circuit WTA.Sur la route de la finale, l'équipe russe avait notamment écarté les grandissimes favorites Martina Navrátilová et Pam Shriver. And on 5 June 1988, the match for the championship against the Soviet Union’s Natasha Zvereva lasted a mere 34 minutes, with Zverera mustering only a few points in a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash. Tags: , To commemorate the occasion, we'll look back each Thursday at one of the 50 moments that have defined the last half-century in our sport. At Tokyo 2020, current world no. Claudia Kohde-Kilsch withdrew due to a knee injury. Steffi Graf bat Martina Navrátilová en finale de cette édition ; elle décroche à cette occasion son 4e titre du Grand Chelem et le 25e tournoi de sa carrière sur le circuit WTA. All Rights Reserved, the tiebreaker was instituted at Wimbledon, 1969 marathon between Pancho Gonzalez and Charlie Pasarell. © 2020 Tennis Channel Network. Surely, at 31, she would have to surrender her crown to the 19-year-old No. Alex de Minaur leads the six-player field which will compete across three days in Belgium. À ce calendrier s'ajoutent aussi les Jeux olympiques de Séoul et deux épreuves par équipes nationales : la Coupe de la Fédération et la Wightman Cup. She did not drop a set en route to the final, defeating Czechoslovakia’s Hana Mandlíková in the quarter-final and compatriot Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in the semi-final. Having also won bronze in the women’s doubles with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in Seoul, her Olympic record stands at four podium finishes, including two titles – counting the one she won in Los Angeles aged 14 when tennis was a demonstration sport! There was nothing anyone could do four months later at the French Open. 1 Novak Djokovic could do the same if he wins gold, as could Roger Federer if he is involved in the Games. In total, she won 22 Grand Slam titles: the Australian Open four times, Roland Garros six times, Wimbledon seven times and the US Open five times. The 19-year-old Graf lost the first set 7-5 before getting the measure of her rival and fighting back to take the next two sets 6-2, 6-1. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Steffi Graf Gabriela Sabatini: Larisa Savchenko Natasha Zvereva: 6-3, 1-6, 12-10 Tableau: 32 04/07/1988 Volvo Cup Båstad: Tier V 75 000: Terre (ext.) Graf lost 13 points in recording the first double bagel in French Open final history, and the first in any Grand Slam final since 1911. Cet article présente les résultats détaillés[1] du double dames de l’édition 1988 du tournoi de Wimbledon qui est disputé du 20 juin au 4 juillet 1988. 50th Anniversary Moments By August of '87, she had taken Navratilova’s top ranking as well, a position she wouldn’t surrender for four years. Once the tiebreaker was instituted at Wimbledon, most tennis fans thought that the 1969 marathon between Pancho Gonzalez and Charlie Pasarell would stand as the longest in the tournament’s history at 112 games. 1988 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying, "Wimbledon; An Era Ends as Graf Beats Navratilova", 1988 Wimbledon Championships – Women's draws and results, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1988_Wimbledon_Championships_–_Women%27s_Singles&oldid=975888620, Wimbledon Championship by year – Women's Singles, Pages using infobox tennis tournament year footer with an unknown event, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 August 2020, at 00:04. Ce tournoi de tennis est le troisième de la tournée du Grand Chelem. 1 Martina Navratilova, and reached two finals, at Wimbledon and the US Open, losing out to Navratilova in both. After a short post-U.S. Open break, she headed for Seoul, where she lost just one set in running through the draw. It was the 102nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 20 June to 4 July 1988. Less than three weeks after beating her in New York, Graf inflicted yet another defeat on the Argentinean, giving her no chance with an imposing 6-3, 6-3 victory. Faits marquants. Steffi Graf after her Gold Medal in Olympic games in 1988 Image credit: Chris Cole – Getty Images Graf started the year winning Australian Open defeating Chris Evert in the final 6-1, 7-6. After losing the Wimbledon final against the USA’s Lindsay Davenport that same year, Graf retired from sport in August while she was still world no. Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section. Martina Navratilova, On 1 October 1988, in winning the final at the Olympic Games in Seoul, German tennis player Steffi Graf achieved what no one else had done before or has done since. She was replaced in the draw by Lucky Loser Shaun Stafford. My father taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Was history not going to turn on this day, after all? The shift came at last with Navratilova serving at 2-0. 3, having racked up a total of 107 tournament victories. “The experience of ’88 in Seoul probably stands out, just coming from the US Open where I won the Grand Slam. All Steffi could do when it was over was apologize to the Parisian crowd. At Wimbledon, Graf finally got her shot at Navratilova in a major final. Chris Evert[4], Pam Shriver et Gabriela Sabatini[5] enregistrent chacune quatre succès. I just wanted to hang in there, to show I could play much better than I was.”. Indépendamment des quatre tournois du Grand Chelem (organisés par l'ITF), la saison 1988 de la WTA voit s'instaurer (et jusqu'en 2008) cinq catégories de tournois strictement définis. Was the older generation not going to give way to the new? La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 20 juillet 2019 à 00:00. In 1988, tennis became an Olympic sport again for the first time since 1924. Graf, with no mid-match hiccups this time, beat her 6-3, 6-3. Sans rivale, elle est battue seulement trois fois[3] et conclut la saison numéro un mondiale. Les profils des joueuses sans lien sont consultables sur le, Le troisième de l'histoire du tennis féminin, après ceux de, Deux fois par Sabatini, une fois par Shriver, Leurs neuvièmes ensemble ; elles en ajouteront un dernier en, Les seize meilleures joueuses en simple et les huit meilleures paires jusqu'en, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saison_1988_de_la_WTA&oldid=170898391, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. First-seeded Steffi Graf defeated the record six-time defending champion Martina Navratilova in the final, 5–7, 6–2, 6–1 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1988 Wimbledon Championships. Graf then came back winning 12 of the next 13 games and the match.[2]. But using her trustiest weapon against the German, her lefty slice serve into Graf’s weaker one-handed backhand, Navratilova snuck out the first set and went up a break early in the second set. Steffi Graf bat Martina Navrátilová en finale de cette édition ; elle décroche à cette occasion son 4 e titre du Grand Chelem et le 25 e tournoi de sa carrière sur le circuit WTA. She lost just her second set at the Slams that year before righting the ship and finishing with an appropriately one-sided 6-1 third-set win. Martina was the six-time defending champion, and she was 8-0 in finals on Centre Court. 1988-ban Steffi Graf megnyerte mind a négy Grand Slam-tornát, és egyéniben olimpiai bajnok is lett: az ő tiszteletére nevezték el ezt a teljesítményt Golden Slam-nek. The generational tug of war between the two legends was prolonged and ferocious. It just felt something special that I was going to,” recalls Graf. First-seeded Steffi Graf defeated the record six-time defending champion Martina Navratilova in the final, 5–7, 6–2, 6–1 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1988 Wimbledon Championships. Crosscourt, inside-out, inside-in, down the line: Fraulein Forehand hit them all. Two of her deliveries drifted away from Graf's backhand, and the German made her pay with two forehand return winners. Sandra Cecchini Mercedes Paz: Linda Ferrando Silvia La Fratta 6-0, 6-2 Tableau: 33 11/07/1988 Nice Open Nice: Tier V 100 000: Terre (ext.) Her gold medal came after victories in the Grand Slam tournaments at Melbourne, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and New York, giving rise to a new term: “the Golden Slam”. Double dames du tournoi de Wimbledon 1988, site de l'ITF – fiche complète de l'épreuve, Palmarès du double dames du tournoi de Wimbledon, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Double_dames_du_tournoi_de_Wimbledon_1988&oldid=161051587, Portail:Époque contemporaine/Articles liés, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. En double, la paire Shriver[6]-Navrátilová triomphe à l'Open d'Australie, à Roland-Garros et aux Masters[7], abandonnant Wimbledon à Graf-Sabatini et l'US Open à Fernández-White. Even the loser had to admit that the guard in women’s tennis had changed. The 1988 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. “This is how it should happen,” Navratilova said when it was over. It was, if nothing else, a chance for Steffi Graf to win another title. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer did fans a favor by tamping down the talk on Sunday. Sports fans love to talk about records that will “never be broken.” Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Norm Van Brocklin’s 550 passing yards in one game, Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points in a game: These marks, all set 50 or more years ago, have indeed stood the test of time. This was Graf's third step towards completing the first, and so far only, Calendar Year Golden Slam. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Soit par ordre d'importance : Les Masters de fin de saison, enfin, alignent les huit meilleures joueuses de l'année écoulée en simple et les quatre meilleures paires en double[8]. In the final, Evert was completely overwhelmed in the first set, losing 6-1. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Navratilova was broken, and so was the dam: She wouldn’t hold again as Graf won nine games in a row and the first of her seven Wimbledon titles, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. Theoretically, though, they all remain breakable. Steffi Graf et Gabriela Sabatini battent Larisa Savchenko-Neiland et Natasha Zvereva en finale de cette édition ; il s'agit du 1er succès de cette équipe dans les tournois du Grand Chelem et de leur 5e titre sur le circuit WTA. No man or woman has approached it since, and short of the game adding a fifth major, no one will ever break it. And stepping on the plane there was a big group of German athletes on it. She married fellow Olympic champion Agassi in 2001, and the pair have two children together. But with history staring her in the face, even Fraulein Forehand took a moment to blink. Sur la route de la finale, l'équipe russe avait notamment écarté les grandissimes favorites Martina Navrátilová et Pam Shriver. Don Budge, the only American to win the calendar-year Grand Slam, handed her the trophy. The following day, Andre Agassi won the men’s singles tournament, coming back from two sets down to beat Russia’s Andrei Medvedev, and he and Graf later started dating. En demi-finale, les deux protagonistes avaient respectivement battu Pam Shriver et Chris Evert . But ’88 felt like the dawning of a new era in tennis. Monica Seles, quatorze ans, dispute en mars son tout premier match officiel sur le circuit. Ce tournoi de tennis est le troisième de la tournée du Grand Chelem. But if we’re talking about the record for the most dominant single season in tennis history, it’s hard to see how anyone will ever surpass the one that Steffi Graf put together in 1988. Once a junior practice partner of Boris Becker, Graf brought a mid-80s power revolution to the women’s game at the same time that her countryman was doing something similar on the men's side. Argentina’s Gabriela Sabatini reached her first ever final, but Graf secured a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory. In the women’s tournament, Williams could repeat the achievement if she competes in what will be her fifth Olympic Games. “I lost to a better player on the final day. The American then took her opponent to a tie-break in the second set, eventually going down 7-3. I had one day to turn around, get home, change and get on the flight to Seoul. But the world of tennis is still waiting for another player capable of securing a Golden Slam in one year. Five months later, the world no. “It was like trying to stop a runaway train,” Peter Alfano wrote in The New York Times. Reports: Sam Querrey flees Russia in private jet after positive tests, Third Ultimate Tennis Showdown to kick off on Friday in Antwerp. In the final, Graf faced a player who had upset Navratilova earlier in the event. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. The season began with the debut of Flinders Park in Melbourne, and its slow, bouncy new surface, Rebound Ace. Steffi even frightened a few of her opponents along the way. She was in hard-court action in the capital of the Republic of Korea on 20 September and breezed through the rounds – conceding just one set, against the Soviet Union’s Larissa Savchenko in the quarter-final – before coming up against Sabatini once again in the gold-medal match on 1 October 1988. L'Allemande, victorieuse de onze tournois, signe un exceptionnel Grand Chelem[2] auquel elle ajoute la médaille d'or olympique à Séoul : la presse parle alors de Golden Slam. The American is apparently at the center of a "serious breach of protocol.". La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 19 juillet 2019 à 06:06. Once again, she reached the final without conceding a single set. Cet article présente les résultats détaillés[1] du simple dames de l’édition 1988 du tournoi de Wimbledon qui est disputé du 20 juin au 4 juillet 1988. 1 for 186 consecutive weeks from 17 August 1987: incredible footwork, a devastating forehand, an effective backhand and a powerful, reliable serve – an all-round game that proved successful on every surface. Next up were the grass courts of Wimbledon, where Graf was never in any danger until the final, when she came up against six-time defending champion Navratilova, unbeaten since 1981. Graf again stormed through the draw without losing a set; the only player to even remotely challenge her was Gabriela Sabatini, who managed to take one set of their semifinal to a tiebreaker. The courts helped Graf in two ways: They gave her time to set up and pound her forehand, and they may have aided Evert in her upset of the fast-court-loving Navratilova in the semifinals. Smooth was the operative word: Graf’s 6-0, 6-0 win in just 32 minutes would serve as the exclamation point on her season. En demi-finale, les deux protagonistes avaient respectivement battu Pam Shriver et Chris Evert. First Grand Slam victory of the year for Graf: 6-1, 7-6. In 1987, Graf’s career truly took off: she won her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, beating world no. 1 Navratilova 8-6 in the third set of the previous year’s French Open final. This year marks the 50th anniversary of TENNIS Magazine's founding in 1965. Graf was just 18 when she started on her quest, but her run didn’t come out of nowhere; the German had been building toward it since 1984, when she reached the fourth round at Wimbledon at 15 and announced herself as a force to be reckoned with in the future.
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