Why was Jo Anne Russell so biased to Steffi and anti Martina?

[deacsyoga]

Just watching her commentatory she was ridiculously pro Steffi Graf in general. Was she a personal friend or even relative of Steffi?

She also was generally very anti Martina. BTW I am not referring specifically to Graf-Navratilova matches, although this is where both sides would come into play and really go to the extreme, but all their matches.

 

[BTURNER]

haven't noticed it. From the Evert/ Navratilova matches, she seemed very complimentary of Martina's game.

 

[Deleted member 735320]

Possibly because she did know them both. She played doubles at least once with Graf. Martina is generally described as a great lady as opposed to Chris Evert who is described as not so nice. Maybe Joanne like the rest of us grew tired of hearing that when Martina lost it was because she was off and her opponent played the match of her life. Martina was awesome but her poop is brown just like everyone else's and I detested those type of arrogant statements. I LOVED watching her get blasted off the court in 1988 Wimbledon.