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The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova - Their Rivalry, Their Friendship, Their Legacy (Hardcover)

by Johnette Howard (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press; illustrated edition edition (16 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224075055
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224075053
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 142,228 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Together, match by match, final by final, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova changed women's tennis forever. I watched their rivalry with awe and pride: two remarkable athletes, fierce competitors--and good friends. It's hard to remember what it was like for women and women athletes in particular back then; Johnette Howard captures it all in vivid detail. "The Rivals is must reading for anyone with a passion for tennis and for anyone curious about Evert and Navratilova's utter transformation of the women's side of the game."
--Billie Jean King

"For all our seeming familiarity with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Johnette Howard takes us deep inside the greatest rivalry in tennis history to reveal how it took the two champions the length of their twenty-year tennis war to truly know and love each other and themselves. With diligence and skill Howard chronicles their magnificent battles on the court, their turbulent times off the court, and the civil wars they waged within their own fragile psyches. It makes the journeys taken and the destinations reached all the more remarkable."
--Mary Carillo, CBS Sports
"With Chrissie and Martina as the leading ladies, Johnette Howard insightfully takes us on a marvelous tour through the panorama of the rise of professional tennis. She digs well below the surface of a tennis court to probe celebrated psyches as never before."
--Bud Collins, "Boston Globe/NBC
"Finally, here is the definitive, inside-out look at one of the most gripping rivalries and relationships in sports. Johnette Howard's insightful and writerly book is the story of friendly enemies, and enormous friends--two women who were alternately competitorsand confidantes. It places Evert and Navratilova alongside Palmer and Nicklaus, Magic and Bird, and Ali and Frazier, but it also, rightly, sets them apart, historically inseparable and unique."
--Sally Jenkins, coauthor of "It's Not About the Bike and "Every Second Counts

The Times
"Well told in an engrossing beach read."

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great sporting read, 4 Feb 2006
I only caught the end of the Navratilova-Evert rivalry, by which time it was definitely Martina who was out ahead but it was fascinating to read the full story. It is pretty amazing to think how many times, particularly in finals, they faced each other. Especially in such a tough mental sport like tennis, it's impressive that they remain friends. Where have rivalries like this gone? It makes me wonder whether the Seles-Graf rivalry could have been a smaller version of this if it wasn't for the stabbing incident.
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars the rivals, 24 Jun 2005
By ladybook lover "the village emporium" (cardiff, south glamorgan United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
well, what a book. a full insight into chris and martina's tennis career's. once opened, i had to continue reading untill the last page and felt that i had played there matches with them.
the story of martina's defection was very moving and showed another side to this extrodinary woman.
as for chrissie, this lady is no "ice maiden" but a true champion of the sport of tennis .
both women should be very proud of there achievments on and off the court.
great writing and a great read, highly reccomended to any follower of the game of tennis.
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4.0 out of 5 stars utterly compelling..., 25 Jul 2005
By Robert Machin (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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Tremendous read. If names like Borg, McEnroe, Connors, Vitus Gerulaitus and, er, Betty Stove still mean anything to you, just the tennis angle would be enough - great stories from the days when sports people still came with personalities fitted as standard. But add to that the emancipation of the women's game from which the protagonists benefitted (and the heroic efforts of Billie Jean King in particular), gay liberation (amazing to remember how constrained we were only 30 years ago), politics, the Cold War and Navratilova's defection, and the story becomes completely compelling. None of this obscures the core story however, which is the contrast in styles, attitudes and fortunes of Evert and Navratilova... both emerge as admirable but in contrasting and unexpected ways. Read it in a day (on holiday admittedly)... highly recommended.
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