Some speeches are even more remarkable, like one example involving broadcaster Mary Carillo and Martina Navratilova in the 1980s.
Navratilova had just lost against Andrea Jaeger but it was a round-robin match, and Carillo was confident she could go and grab Navratilova and have a decent post-match chat. As Carillo recalls:
💬 “Martina asks, ‘Do you really want to know?’ I’m nodding, and in her inimitable way, she says, ‘Well, it’s my time of month.’ We’re live on air and I’m thinking, ‘Christ, why did I think this was a good idea?’
“And then … She’s really going through her menstrual cycle. Anyway, she finishes up and she says, ‘I’ll be OK, I’ll play much better tomorrow.’ And my producer’s yelling in my ear.
“So, in throwing it back upstairs to the booth, I said: ‘All right, so you heard it guys, it just wasn’t Martina’s night. Period.’”
