Chris Evert Interview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Catherine speaks to 18-time Grand Slam singles champion Chris Evert about her extraordinary tennis career.
Evert reflects on how her childhood shaped the rest of her life, the early years of the WTA Tour, the challenge of being a well-adjusted human being as well as a great champion, her rivalry with Martina Navratilova and the way they were each portrayed by the media, the achievements she's most proud of, and her period of self-discovery following retirement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm San Roenka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:06.7 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | Hi folks Catherine here. No Matt, no David today, but not to worry to fill the |
| 0:27.5 | vast void that they leave. We have a very special guest indeed an 18 time Grand Slam champion, |
| 0:35.2 | one half of tennis's greatest ever rivalry in the view of, well certainly myself and I think, |
| 0:42.1 | Matt and David and much of the tennis world as well. It is of course Chris Everett. You've |
| 0:47.2 | heard a little portion of this interview in our tennis relived series for the French Open when |
| 0:52.8 | we were talking about her 1985 final there against Martina Navaritalova. This is the chance to hear |
| 0:59.2 | the whole interview. She's one of my favourite interviews ever to be quite honest with you. She's |
| 1:07.4 | fascinating. She's so insightful and reflective and such a smart, erudite person and a real |
| 1:15.7 | inspiration for me. So it's a great, great pleasure to get to speak to. This is one of two |
| 1:20.7 | Chris Everett-focused podcasts this week. Chris Everett Week on the tennis podcast. |
| 1:26.3 | So you've got the full interview today and then we'll be coming back in just a few days with |
| 1:31.4 | the Chris Everett story. Our reflections on the interview are full kind of run down of her career |
| 1:36.1 | complete with lots of glorious Matt stats and quotes from pieces over the years and we can't |
| 1:42.9 | rate to record that too. And of course if there's any significant news developments in the world of |
| 1:48.1 | tennis over the next few days we'll be coming to you with a news, views update podcast as well, |
| 1:55.6 | possibly even featuring Simon Briggs. But that's for another day for now. Please sit back and enjoy |
| 2:02.0 | Chris Everett. Well Chris, you're so great to have you honestly. It's been an ambition of us to |
| 2:08.0 | get you on the podcast to cheer the fat for a long time. So I really, really appreciate your time. |
| 2:13.1 | I don't think I've done, I think I interviewed for different times for my tennis academy but I don't |
| 2:21.6 | think I've done a podcast where somebody's interviewed me. Oh wow. I feel honored. Genuinely honored. |
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