JOHNETTE HOWARD is an award-winning sports columnist for "Newsday" who previously worked as a senior writer at "Sports Illustrated" and as a columnist at the" Washington Post." Her work was included in "The Best American Sports Writing of the 20th Century, " and her columns were nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general commentary. She lives in New York City.
"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
competitors and 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
Secondi
"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"
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