Let’s build together Hana’s « Hall of Fame » online

On this website, you can follow Hana Mandlikova’s career year-by-year, tournament by tournament. It will be completed step-by step and if you want to help you’re welcome! This site is a platform to share our passion for Hana, Tennis and « vintage » WTA of the 80’s.

I’m trying to re-create the years Hana spent on the tour and to relive all the tournaments she entered through the years, « as if you were there ». Till the end of the 80’s, the coverage of the WTA was not global. It is a real treasure-hunting to find reports, images, videos of even the most important tournaments.

When Virginia Slims came back as main sponsor of the tour by 1983, new laws about tobacco industries advertisement on TV made it difficult to the « Virginia Slims Series » tournaments on the US to be broadcasted on National TV. It’s why the newspapers reports are the remaining elements for most of these events.

A Journey through WTA 1980’s Golden Era

 As this « Museum online » is here to share Hana’s achievements with every tennis fans, I’ll be thankful for any help you may provide and share with us.

Please, contact me at info@insidehanastennis.com .

This blog also intends to celebrate the players of this great WTA-era. Along the pages, you’ll meet Tracy Austin, Pam Shriver, Manuela Maleeva, Andrea Jaeger, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, Evonne Goolagong and many more… Thanks to these greats talented players, women’s tennis tour has become a global sport, and the first professional sport for women.

I do hope you’ll have as much pleasure to discover this journey through Hana Mandlikova’s career that I am having in searching and collecting all the contents you will find here!

• Stephane (Paris, Fr., Feb. 1, 2022)