I grew up watching Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova – this tale of their friendship wrecked me | Emma Brockes (opens in new tab)

Chris was my first tennis love, but it was Martina who broke my heart. What a joy to watch these legends still fighting onYou can look at house prices and hemlines, or prime ministers and presidents, but for my money, the quickest shortcut to evoking an era is its tennis players. I grew up in the age of Wimbledon starts next week and, in The Final Set, we are taken back to that pivotal moment in the late 1970s when Evert and Navratilova – “the most cold-hearted pursuers of greatness that you’...