Billie Jean King vs Margaret Court: Wimbledon Final 1970 (Extended Highlights)
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I am incredibly impressed with the ultra calm and polite voice of the commentator. What an era for tennis.
Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj “Oh, I say!!”
The wonderful Dan Maskell with Ann Jones who was champ in 1969. Sometimes he wouldn't comment and treated those watching with their own intelligence. Today, they chat drivel between points!
Dan Maskell covered Wimbledon for over 50 years. He was a tradition there!
Drivel indeed Crap more like
Incredible to think, that this best of 3 set match, was won in 2 sets and it took Margaret 46 games, to win it!
Those were the days.
Great match.
I had never watched Margaret Court before. She was a beast. I say that respectfully and with admiration. Big, strong, skilled from the net and baseline, and great touch. Extremely impressive. And had her own languid look. Moving deliberately and with minimal wasted motion. Unique and I think way underestimated in 2023.
I wish all Wimbledon highlights from years ago looked like this. Wow!
I wish we had a movie from 1960, when she won her first Australian Open at age 17.
Thanks for uploading all the precious legendary games Wimbledon!
Margaret Court - What a wonderful name for an outstanding tennis player.
I love the volley plays and seing them coming to the net. Nowadays, it's more groundstrokes from the baseline. I would love to see upcoming players using those strategies at the net.
The game is so much faster these days and the ball hit a lot harder to be able to get to the net.
Love to watch this historic games . thks wimby 👍🎾
Two wonderful tennis players with their own styles. Applaud them both. True champions & gracious.
Margaret Court... Woow amazing 😍
14 games to 12! Old School! Love it.
Margaret Court was way ahead of her time...
Incredible talent..Incredibly athletic...
She did workouts that were so far ahead of her time...
I rate navritlova and steffi graf above margret court because in margret court's era many players didnt even play aus open and thats why she has 9 titles.
@@arslaanpasha3334why let your darkness make a fool of your self
@@TheVanguard333 Stating an opinion and clarifying a fact is :"darkness"? Really?
@stevenmeyer9674 it's the same darkness where your responce comes from
First time I am seeing Margaret Court
She is a great player
She is the greatest
She would have been a champion even if she was in these days
I just know we all see how mama was sitting in the background all perched at 12:25😂😂😂 she was dressed to impress!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀 she look like she would cuss somebody out good
@@ladyluc26 facts!! Like she stay ready so she never have to get ready 🤣🤣🤣
A generation of us had school teachers like this ...It was the killer glasses that did it !
Bet even Serena would think twice about disputing one of her calls.
😁😁😁😁😁😁
Playing each first service point holding a ball in your left hand looks agonizing. Super impressive stuff.
The racquets in those days were much more difficult to use. Hence a backhand topspin was very rarely attempted. Court was a terrific athlete and King a great tactician.
Wow! Quite the uneducated comment. Ever heard of Rod Laver or Lew Hoad, or various other players who hit topspin backhands? Even Billie Jean had a topspin backhand. Why were they so difficult to use? lol
I was referring to to women players. I'm fully aware of Laver and Hoad. Even those guys could not rip backhands in the way that Wawrinka does. Generating the level of spin was not possible. Also the older racquets were much smaller with a corresponding smaller sweet spot. Backhand slice and volley were the dominant shots.
BJK indeed had a topspin backhand stroke, but in the surviving footage on TH-cam it seems mostly used for passing shots and variety from the rear. Topspin makes the ball drop and is applied to returns and passing shots hit at the net player’s foot and at an angle. In rear to rear exchanges, slice was the norm because it was more consistent and could travel deeper in court. This is true in both women’s and men’s tennis until quite recently.
Djokovic is greatest player of all time and Margaret is greatest female 🎾 player of all time in tennis sport OK
Andy Roddick would win 30 major titles if he plays women tennis sport he is that good OK not only that if he born in different era he would have 6 to 8 major titles actually.
Nick Kyrgios would win 10 major titles if he plays female tennis sport.
In men tennis sport
He will win 1 major title mostly
This is the year Margaret won the Grand Slam! (all 4 majors)
The only other Player who's accomplished this since then is Steffi Graf!
Actually hadn’t watched much of Court. Can see why she won so many titles. 💪🎾
She did a back hand top spin return exactly like Federer, but her wingspan looked way longer...
I had never seen her play, and the scoreman said "Advantage Mrs Court..."
Me too! Glad I did, much respect for her now. I did not expect her to look so good. I had watched highlights of her losing to Bobby Riggs and she did not look good. Now I understand why she is one of the greatest women’s tennis players if all time.
My research shows she faced many ametuers as to why she won so much. Her numbers are skewd.
@@brightestfuturethe darkness as blinded your understanding
@@TheVanguard333 serena is a far better player. Court doesnt seem nice
What no grunting? Amazing
they aren't hitting the ball nearly as hard as modern players who grunt.
who grants in serve and volley tennis?
By that time, grunting wasn't needed, it seems...
Margaret Court was amazing. And I know people might not like her cause of what she says, but I'm referring to the tennis player. Played in 47 grand slams, and won 24. Excluding the Australian Open, she played in 33 grand slaps, and won 13. That's nearly a 40% record. Super impressive. Now people would say if Serena was playing she would easily beat her. But that's the wrong question, of course a modern day athlete with all the science and the equipment would go back in time and do well. The correct question would be, how would a talented Margaret Court do in today's tennis with all the access that tennis players have today to trainers, dieticians, etc. We never know. We only go by her record. And she was the best of her time, like how Serena is the best her time this generation.
I like some of her causes too. "People" are not unanimous in any of this.
Most of the old bigot’s slam record was based on the Australian Which no one went to and basically she competed alone so it’s a fake record
sld1776 Sad little white supremacist
@@sld1776 Good point
Serena has outlasted different generations
OMG, these tennis players did not have a chair to put their things? really? Amazing! 😨
That's the first thing I saw
I noticed this too.
Now those bitches require 2 chairs, soft towels, and coaching. Tennis is dead!
they had to get their own drinks as well.
...and no court attendants shading them with umbrellas as if they were Pharaos
wow thanks for sharing ^.^
I love this tennis so much
Margaret Court is beautiful.
I Most Solemly Aggree
Both were injured. Court had lidocaine injected in her left foot, and Kings knees were shot- she had surgery in fall . Poorly played both have said.
Oh I wondered... court didn't seem at full strength
@@Broadica And King was staying at the baseline after hitting first serves.
@@TheVerbalVolley oh does she usually volley? I've never seen any of her matches so I don't know her style
@@Broadica nearly every player on those days was serve and volley. Baseliners were a real minority
@@th8257 I knew that, just not whom
Margaret Court was and possibly still is the best sportsperson Australia has produced. Inspirational.
Bradman. He's so far in front of everyone else in cricket it's not funny. Court has the record but Williams is just behind her. If Graf had not had so many injuries later in her career and hung around forever like Williams she probably would have eclipsed Court, she had 22, only 2 behind Court. That's my opinion - looking at how far they are in front of the rest. With Bradman it's daylight second.
yeah nah definitely Donald Bradman
Bradman and Heather McKay too.
I'm not an Australian, but: Peter Brock?
@@marknorris1381 Graf would not have claimed so many grand slams if it weren't for Monica Seles stabbing in 1993. That changed the whole picture.
Very entertaining, BJ using all tactics and MC a tremendous shot maker 👏
What a cold handshake on King's behalf!
Typical of her!
Scott Martin Sadly true. They claim others have the chip on their shoulder, but it’s them.
Well, King was never known as a class act in tennis.
@@shihlin1 She was particularly disdainful of the younger stars during the time that her own talent was in decline. In her last Wimbledon appearance, 1983, she bragged about her straight set victories over Wendy Turnbull and Kathy Jordan (the latter having upset Chris Evert in the third round). That inspired Andrea Jaeger to clean King's clock in the semifinals by 6-1, 6-1. (Jaeger later admitted to this).
She didn't like losing. Nobody's perfect.
Precious video. Thanks Wim !
That lob by Court at 4:18 was insane
Slow motion tennis!
Thank God for tiebreakers. Djokovic and Nadal would have played for three days under the old conditions!
novak and nadal wouldn't have made it to the second week
🤣
Good old classic tennis, no yells, no grunts, no abuse and lots of skill.....great ladies.
it was a man
@@MrMondeller 😂
@@MrMondeller Not every woman looks beautiful in Boy cut
@@arslaanpasha3334 billy jean is a man, and the "battle of the sexes" was just a masonic ritual to empower the transgender movement that now has come to it's capstone... Venus, Serena, Navratilova?, Just in Henin, Steffi Graf, aso... all males.
All transvestigation channels are removed from the web. BE WARE.
We must apprecite these great tennis players, because the tie-break wasn't introduced yet! Therefore Margaret Court is considered a living tennis legend, having won all-majors in a calendar year!!!
Lol,In this time tenis is so boring to watch,with stupid servis voley,my grandma can beat they
Not to mention a complete homophobic bigot.
@@SuperNino111 the tennis in this game is about 1000000x more interesting than the boring game we see now. I watched the whole video and enjoyed every moment.
@@SuperNino111 serve and volley is an effective tactic even nowadays
@The Klitschko Brothers so much more depth now.
interesting how playing baseline was apparently much more risky a strategy than it is today.
The change from wooden racquets to modern ones was the reason for the change. Ivan Lendl shaped the modern game of tennis as they changed racquets in early 80s just before he hit his prime.
@@bluesanc88 Yes, enlarging the raquets spoiled Tennis really. The touch players could no longer compete with the power players.
Court the queen of courts 👑
I feel very guilty for taking for granted what i read about the difference between open era and those earlier stages. Here M played a whoopee of 26 sets. It was brutal. She is the GOAT. She did hunt her points, what a competitor she was.
Court just hit the ball so hard. It was the hardness of her shots that allowed her to dominate.
bobby riggs has entered the room
@@davidr2802 Riggs played very smart. He did not try and outslug Court like the other women foolishly tried to do. He used all kinds of junk, drop shots, and craft. King, the only women who sometimes had any success vs Court, tried to do this too.
Dan 'ooh I say' Maskell commentating I was 6 yr old watching with my Dad, he loved C Evert, so did I !!
lots of thinking and strategy with shots. Court is amazing!
Fantastica final, Margaret y Billi wow
The decorum of the crowd impresses me as much as no screaming after strikes
The crowd was like this until about 1986. Although I think it might have improved slightly recently. I was there last year and the noise of the crowd wasn't too bad.
Perhaps reflecting English society as a whole? Just wondering.
@@david203 It did reflect it at the time. Today there's a lot more screaming at Wimbledon than there was at that time.
More white more polite in any society….
Fascinating to see how the sport has evolved
Margaret Court. When I say this name, I say the name of the best tennis player in history. With 24 grand slam titles won, I can say with pleasure that she was a fighter on the field. She always trusted her, she had a lot of ambition and the fact that she had so many fans who loved her so much made her one of the best in history. Nostalgia for this video, it's like I'm going back to the past. This is the golden generation of tennis!
@Majax Steffi graff is goat
heather swanson dude
@@arslaanpasha3334 Nope.
@@arslaanpasha3334 Gunter Parche is the true tennis goat !
Margaret Court was a really great player. Very disciplined.
Thanks. Court not only had a winning lifetime head-to-head record against King, but she won 4 of the 5 Grand Slam finals that they played. Cheers.
But King won the big matches that mattered, twice as many Wimbledon singles , and 20 in all. Back then, it was the one to win, and to a lesser extent, the US Open. No one bothered with the French or Australian opens hardly.
Well Margaret has 64 majors and the greatest winning percentage of all time so I will take her career over BJK although she was a great too.
Looking at the comments , no tie breaker, no screaming , anyone mention the size of the racquets ? small sweet spot , less surface area , Margaret Court was the first women to train with the men and do gym workouts , I dont think her record will be broken , not in my life time
doubful on that comment "training with men" as if BJK didn't grow up being competitive with her brother or never played against men.
I love the fact that both of them are sponsored by Fred Perry. Jeez! How times have changed in 50 years.
Great match from Court!
She was far less injured than BJK, who had knee surgery immediately after this match.
11:50 backhand pass by Mrs.Court is amazing..
Flat backhand cross court. No big deal. Certainly not amazing.
Omg - love this video. Look at those line judge ladies- sitting lady-ly 😂
Awesome video. Two great players without all the fancy extras today's players have and demand. Life was so much simpler and relaxed back then! 😃
In today's tennis player spend more calories for one service game than in the whole match like this.
Ms. Court. AWESOME.
A huge rivalry at the top of the game in the 60,s and 70,s and now at each other's throats regarding LGBT issues. There should be a book written one day about the rivalry both off and on the court.,,"
On court margaret WON... off court BILLIE did.
hey please do the two mens and ladies 1968 finals as these represent 50 years of "Open" tennis. Very special milestone.
Great champ she was and lovely Christian woman too court is.
Christian really?? Hardly. Jesus commanded us to not judge others.
@@user-ku4sd6np6c eh bible says make righteous judgement.get your facts right
Fantastic
My! How the game has changed!!
the men's game too... back then they used to push, dink & lob around like these women did.
thanks. that was very good to see back when players used their heads and strategic play were the tactics. Un;ike today where brute force, service power and sheer bashing the ball off the baseline determines 99.9 percent of the matches.
lol u say that they don’t have brains or what
What a gem ,Margaret was the best and is still a legend.
The quality of the tennis at the time is far higher than I expected
It's remarkable that Margaret Court and King served and played the point while holding a second ball in their hands 🤔
Most players did. Even Steffi did when she won Wimbledon
Harder for women as they need more support for the backhand, even the one hander. I try it sometimes but on sudden backhand volleys, I find myself double handing so it's hard.
Queen and Margaret court two best players but Margaret court is goat of female tennis sport
What a classic game of tennis... 🎾
Disciplined crowd, vintage tennis rackets..
The game, more of precision than strength... Luckily the rules now are more player friendly, imagine not being able to sit once during the length of the match... It's crazy...
@@Raydoffa just as we have speeded up everything else in our lives, so has the game of tennis..
Both great players but Court was stronger, bigger, and a more complete player than King. The fact that BJK was one of the great tactical minds of all time was often not enough to overcome these facts. Margaret’s tennis abilities are under appreciated.
Court went to
Lose against riggs who was 55... I’m
Not sure if anything u say adds up
@@MaatiSll That was only one exhibition match. Court won a total of 66 Grand Slam titles, more than any other player in history. Cheers.
Which only proves the point about the disparity between men’s and women’s tennis. McEnroe said that the 700th ranked man could beat Serena and everyone laughed. Never forget that Court stood out for 2yrs in her prime so she could have had a few more majors to her name.
@@andrewcameron1346 men not even ranked (i..e the top college male players and the best 16 and 18 under juniors in the world) would all beat serena or any woman currently ranked #1...
@@MaatiSll That one match doesn't negate her 24 slams, including the ones she won after having a baby. Riggs would have beaten BJ also, but he threw the match to pay off his gambling debts. He was a former world number one. McEnroe could have beaten any woman on tour when he was 55 as well
The first women's Wimbledon final I remember was 1971 & Yvonne Goolagong won, I was 6. She left had a baby & returned to win again in 1980. I remember that one too.
AWESOME! NO SCREAMING, OVER THE TOP NONSENSE GRUNTING ON EVERY SINGLE SHOT... NO SECONDS FOREVER BETWEEN POINTS AND BETWEEN SERVES, NO GOTTA USE THE TOWEL AFTER EVERY POINT AND ACTUAL POINT CONSTRUCTION AND STRATEGY AND VARIETY!....
No shots also, just slice. Nobody grunts when slicing
@@markovoda Serena does
Fido 😂 true
Maybe because it’s more power being used into the shots??? I feel like I could face these women and I never played tennis the serves nowadays maybe 15 mph faster than these
Look how close the photographers are allowed to get! Times have definitely changed.
Indeed they have especially after the on-court stabbing of Monica Seles in 1993.
@@thumbsdownbandit They stopped the photographers getting so close at Wimbledon in about 1983/84.
@@thumbsdownbandit stefi graff would have won less slams if monica wasnt stabbed in 1993
no wonder they're exhausted - no tiebreaks - almost like best of five nowadays - 14:12 11:9
skylaxx just like the 5th set at Wimbledon, no tiebreak.
yes, we had some major display of that in this year's men's quarters and semis ;) cheers
skylaxx I got tired just watching the matches😂
always wondered why court didn't develop if not a topspin backhand at least a flat backhand.. she certainly had the strength and skill to do so and would have made her even more formidable from the back of the court and especially return of serve...
BOTH were in extreme pain throughout this long match, it was a battle of attrition and defense as opposed to their normal all out all the time aggression...king had to have surgery not too long after this match and court had to take time off for weeks before the u.s. open because of her injury....
Bring back the net guy.. 🤣.. his head would get taken off today
congratulations ❗️
wow. the speed and power is much less back in the 70s. Its crazy how longer the rallies are in todays game.
The Overhead Racquets exert far more power! That's why Players of today both serve and hit harder!
margaret court a true athlete mind body and spirit
I wonder what was her reaction to the MJ song
Gangsta Nerd anger probably
@@elephanttrunk5372 HAHHAHA
I watched this final on TV in 1970. My Mum hated BJK but I could never understand why. Her post match interviews showed her to be quite charming. Funny old world.
Both Billie Jean King and Margaret Court had damn good serves. It is interesting to see how the players back then didn't waste any time between first and second serves and toweling off constantly between points like they do in today's tennis.
No grunting, groaning, squealing etc. Just an audible exhalation from Billie-Jean King when she serves. Two real ladies playing hard, but playing fairly and sportingly.
@@simongleaden2864 . I've always felt that it is totally unnecessary for players to grunt at all when they hit the tennis ball. Grunting doesn't allow a player hit the ball any harder - it is just distracting and an annoyance for the opponent which should never have been permitted in the first place!
@Majax yea
@Majax There was hardly any long rally back then
M.C. SIMPLY THE GRATEST !!!
She makes it look so simple and effortless. Totally unruffled.
they look so tired
Both were severely injured and grimacing in pain. King went under the knife right after this, and Court had a hemorrhaged ankle shot full of novocaine. Cheers.
There wasn’t sit down during change overs until the mid-70’s. Players only paused to occasionally sip a drink but for the most part play was continuous.
@@Augustus212 yes..i noticed that too..no chairs for sitting..
Crazy to think the majority of the people in the crowd have now passed...
Margareth court is the best tenis womens all of time
This was my strategy when I used to play tennis on nintendo gameboy. 😆 Those who were there in the early 90s will know what Im talking about, serve and run right up to the net every point. I will say this, King was fast!
yea it's called serve and volley, very effective on grass
Tennis back then seem so slow. The server speed was 2 miles per hour 😳today Tennis player would kill them balls
These two legends played great!....and both were real lookers too!! 🤤
@George Rusch I thought her husband was nice looking, and he chose to marry her, and even stood by her when the lesbian thing was exposed.
My head went dizzy watching them! They are so fast😜😂
Lmfaooo I feel like I could keep and I haven’t played a day of tennis tennis players nowadays would murder them
@@beenz5 - Give today's players the same raquets as Court and King had back then, and let's see how they do on the Wimbledon grass.
Viene solo da piangere nel guardare questo genere di incontri, erano gli albori di un tennis primitivo e allo stadio iniziale, possiamo tranquillamente dire che era un altro tennis rispetto già a quello di un trentennio dopo per non dire con questo contemporaneo!!…mamma mia inguardabile
This was in the era where tie breaks didn't even exist.😊
Margaret Court all time GS leader at 24! 🙌
Her slams have no value. This was no tennis Zero speed and quality. 10.000 ladies of nowadays are able to play tennis like this.
And I suspect in 50 years they will all play as well as Serena. What’s your point?
24 with a fat asterisk next to it. Only 11 Grand Slams in the Open Era. Her other wins were against amateurs. One of her titles came from beating a senior citizen. And another came from her opponent retiring during the match.
@@jasongoestohell5609 your comment has no value.
I'm surprised more people don't talk about Margaret Court as the GOAT for female tennis
That's easy because she wasnt, half of her majors was pre-open era with questionable competition. Top 10 all time sure, GOAT? No way
The pre open era in women’s tennis still included all of the best female players. There was no professional women’s tour to take leading players out of the majors like there was in men’s tennis.
I think it’s because she has insane phobia to anything except Jesus and heterosexuals
This was no tennis No speed and quality. Her slams have no value.
Her ranking was a result of her titles at the AO in a period with only few players from other countries. So her titles were not equal to Williams or Graf.
Amazing how women's tennis has evolved.
I used to play with those wooden racquets. Tiny head, miniscule sweetspot. Add a grass court surface like a ploughed field after 2 weeks of play. Really hard work to control the ball.
I'm SOOOOOOOO glad I now play with a Babolat Pure Aero with Luxilon Alu Power strings!!! Court's racquet looks - yuk...
Though I do confess to a slight nostalgia for my Maxply with a natural gut and playing on grass courts (even my London club courts were a joy)......
Remarkable match.
She is best of all time.
There were great players long before these women such as Lenglen, Wills, Connaly,and Gibson.
Près de 50 ans après son dernier titre, remportée à l’US Open en 1973, Margareth Smith Court n’a jamais été égalée. Avec ses 24 victoires dans les tournois majeurs, l’Australienne restera toujours à une longueur devant Serena Williams.
This was a long warm up.. When does the match start?
Exactly. This is awful. And they have the nerve to compare them to today???
When they didn't wipe their face with a towel, between every point.
The game was much less physical back then too, though. Even the players themselves acknowledge that
Both players of course were playing with old racquets, so the power was much less. I also know that virtually the only backhand then was the slice, but I was still surprised at how few driven forehands there were, how short many of the approach shots were and how very few shots landed near the sidelines. I thought that play then would have been slower but still expected greater depth and width of shot. A great upload, though.
the old Wimbledon courts would have been faster back then too... lower bounce, smaller headed racquets.
Rod Laver hit topspin backhands in this era... & slice too.
@@shanelawson5072 I guess we had to wait for Navratilova and Evert to produce more penetrating groundstrokes. I must look at footage of those two to see how accurate that is.
@@tonybennett4159 I think Court & King could hit those penetrating shots... but the slick grass meant the prevailing wisdom was to push & slice it low & approach net at every opportunity.
Amazing! Not one Eeeeeeuuuoooo!
Way to go Margaret superb and no sitting down and play until the end proper tennis
finally! when is the complete match?
It's great to see how it all went in the past , Billie Jean king's drop shot was on fire, buy Margaret Court was more mentally stronger...no chairs to sit down !!!
I think male players used to have a cigarette at change over haha
And a beer.
Suzanne Lenglen in the 1920s used to eat brandy soaked sugar lumps between changeovers.
Amazing match, tough conditions...! No wonder Margaret Court is the leader in Grandslams...
Courts era of tennis doesnt hold a candle to modern competitive tennis in terms of pace/power/skill. She would not beat a seeded player in the modern era; not to mention 11 of her grandslams were aus opens, which were against other australians as the aus open wasnt internationally significant. Plus shes an irrelevant old homophobe, so theres that....
@@user-vw7bx9ll8n 1965 Australian Open, Margaret Court beat King in the semi finals.
BJ King's sportsmanship has inspired Serena Williams. Margaret is the real goat in tennis history.