Chris & Martina: The Final Set premieres Wednesday at the Tribeca Film Festival and will drop on Netflix on June 26. Directed by two-time Emmy Award winner Rebecca Gitlitz, the film bounces (in the manner of a tennis rally) between the two subjects, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova; between present and past; between Florida and Prague, to take the measure of what might well be the most gripping, durable sports rivalry that ever was.
Full disclosure: I worked on this film and am an executive producer. With that out of the way, it is an extraordinary examination of a soaring sports rivalry, of two women who were elite athletes and are elite human beings. Both were willing and able subjects, willing to plumb complicated lives and relationships, the undulations of stardom, and their singular friendship.
