I grew up watching Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova - this tale of their friendship wrecked me | Emma Brockes

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 Graf v Seles and Agassi v Sampras, but my earliest memories - those that yank me back to a primordial time - come from the period immediately before that. I havent even reached the end of the tra...