Roland Garros Re-Lived 1999: Graf vs. Hingis - Ecstasy, Agony, Aggro

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Martina Hingis never won the French Open, but the 1999 final was definitely the one that got away as she let slip a comfortable lead against Steffi Graf in a classic match filled with aggro.

How did Hingis stir things up before the match with her comments about Graf? What incidents turned the crowd against Hingis and caused her to get a point penalty? And in what way were the scenes at the end of the match - as Hingis returned to the court in tears comforted by her mother - so pathos heavy?

We hear from Mary Carillo about why she loved watching Hingis play and why she always assumed that the Swiss would win Roland Garros one day.

As for Graf, this turned out to be her last Grand Slam title, and she retired shortly afterwards. Her coach, Heinz Günthardt, talks candidly about the match and reveals the exact moment Graf knew her time in the sport was up.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, featuring Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli.
0:02.0	I'm Matt Vlander.
0:03.0	This is Mary Carillo.
0:04.0	I'm Stan Ravinka.
0:05.0	I'm Lainey Njut.
0:06.0	I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.0	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to Tenys Podcast.
0:21.0	Well, we have quite the weekend coming your way here on Rod and Garros relived from the Tenys Podcast
0:27.0	because we are going back to 1999 and that is our sole concentration for the next couple of shows.
0:35.0	Starting with Steffi Graf against Marty and a Hingis tomorrow, it's going to be Andre Agassi against Andre Medvedev.
0:42.0	Catherine Matt, when we drew this up, these two days were pretty much at the front of the queue, weren't they?
0:50.0	It was such a difficult shortlist to draw up.
0:52.0	There's some wonderful matches and memories that didn't make the cut of 15 matches we're covering in this series.
0:58.0	But these two, there was never a moment that that was not going to happen, Catherine.
1:03.0	Yeah, absolutely.
1:04.0	There are two matches that have...
1:07.0	I mean, people knew it was great at the time looking back on, you know,
1:11.0	right ups of both finals and reflecting on the tournament.
1:14.0	People knew that a special finals weekend had just played out.
1:18.0	But even so, they've both taken on more significance and more intrigue as time has passed.
1:25.0	And of course, you've also got the added story of the two winners ending up married after the weekend
1:33.0	and thankfully still married, which is just, yeah, you couldn't write it.
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