Deep Reads: Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors.
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Read today's rundown of the most important and interesting stories and sign up for The 7 newsletter if you haven't yet. You can do both here. Right now, sit back with a selection from our "Deep Reads" series. You can find these occasional bonus episodes regularly by following "Post Reports" wherever you listen.
This selection was one of The Post's most read stories this year. It's titled: Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors.
Tennis legends Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova became friends as teenagers but then split apart as each rose to No. 1 in the world. But they grew back together as they forged one of the greatest rivalries in sports and embarked on ambitious lives in retirement. After 50 years, they understood each other like no one else could. So when cancer came, they turned to each other.
It's by sports columnist Sally Jenkins, who gives an introduction of how she came to write it. It's read by Adrienne Walker for Noa: News Over Audio, an app offering curated audio articles.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jeff. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I'm here to remind you all that we'll be back with the Seven Podcast on Monday, but you can still read the seven newsletter today. |
| 0:12.9 | If you're not signed up for that yet, |
| 0:14.3 | there's a link to it in our show notes. |
| 0:16.5 | I also wanted to share with you a story from the newsroom's |
| 0:19.4 | deep reads collection. |
| 0:21.2 | It's part of our commitment to narrative journalism. The story that |
| 0:24.6 | you're about to hear is from Washington Post Sports columnist Sally Jenkins. |
| 0:28.2 | It's one of our most read stories of the year. It's about two tennis legends |
| 0:32.3 | and their extraordinary relationship. |
| 0:34.4 | If you enjoy listening to this, be sure to follow our other daily news podcast post reports. |
| 0:39.6 | We drop stories from our Deep Breed series there on the weekends. You'll hear a narrator from |
| 0:44.6 | my partner Noah reading this one in just a little bit. Noah stands for news over audio, |
| 0:49.7 | but first here's Sally Jenkins setting up how she came to write her piece. |
| 0:54.0 | I had lunch with Martina Navratilova who was in New York |
| 0:58.6 | being treated for throat and breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital and during the lunch she |
| 1:04.8 | began to talk about her great rival Chris Everett who was also undergoing |
| 1:10.0 | treatment for ovarian cancer and during the lunch it became clear just how deep Navratilova's regard for Chris was. |
| 1:19.0 | And it really struck me that there was something extraordinary between these two people. It really |
| 1:25.0 | struck me that there was something extraordinary |
| 1:24.0 | between these two people as they were going through this cancer experience. |
| 1:28.0 | They were going through it together and really helping each other. |
| 1:31.0 | And I thought that was an important subject to try to get at this incredible |
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