Chris Evert gave this accessory its official name — or rather, a Chris-Evert-induced kerfuffle did.
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If Evert Dubin paled in comparison professionally to Chris Evert, she did not hold it against her sister.
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S.) beat Navratilova 1-6 7-6 7-6 1980 - Evert-Lloyd beat Mandlikova 23-7 6-1 6-1 1979 - Austin beat Evert-Lloyd 6-4 6-63 1978 - Evert beat Pam Shriver (U.
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S.) 7-5 6-4 1977 - Evert beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 7-6 6-23 1976 - Evert beat Evonne Goolagong (Australia) 6-3 6-0 1975 - Evert beat Goolagong 5-7 6-19683 6-2 1974 - Billie Jean King (U.
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For some reason, she added slyly, her coach, Sascha Bajin, and Evert can say the exact same thing, but it really resonates when Evert says it.
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Jeanne Evert Dubin, a former world-ranked professional tennis player and a younger sister of the 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert, died on Thursday.
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" Before the tournament began, Evert described Osaka as "reliable.
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She went looking for something else, and she found Evert.
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Evert won four in a row from 1975 to 78.
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"This lady fights her heart out," Evert said of Halep.
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Evert had lost only two of 56 matches that year.
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"Emotionally and mentally, she's still a great champion," Evert said.
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"She seems fitter than last year," Evert said of Williams.
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"I am not dating anybody, and I am not looking," Evert, 62, tells PEOPLE Saturday night during the 28th Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic gala at Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club.
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Though Evert survived the three aces and six service winners off the oversize Prince racket Shriver wielded like a paddle, even Evert expressed some mental weariness from the pressure hardly visible on her face.
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"The men can still go on the road if they have a family and not disrupt the family," said Evert, who has advised many female players at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Chris Evert says she doesn't need a man to feel complete.
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"There's a few adjustments when you reach number one," Evert said.
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Health Management Associates CEO Marilynn Evert did not respond to questions.
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I think Chris Evert is a wonderful exemplar of Chris-dom.
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"Straight on you saw she had something others didn't," Evert recalled.
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Chris Evert and Serena Williams are tied with six singles titles.
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The players laughed, and Evert patted her opponent on the forehead.
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Two years later, Navratilova reached her first final there — against Evert.
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Starting in 22005, she reached four straight finals, losing in three sets each time to Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert before breaking the pattern in 230 by falling to Evert in straight sets. 212.
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One of five tennis-playing children raised by the teaching pro Jimmy Evert and his wife, Colette Evert, Jeanne had a standout junior career in which she became the nation's top-ranked player in her age group.
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Seven-times French Open champion Chris Evert was happy to stand corrected.
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Incredibly, both Annie and Evert believe demand in Iceland is still rising.
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And Chris Evert and Jim Brown show up, too, because why not?
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"Getting married and having a child is a special journey," Evert said.
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Only six women — Court, Billie Jean King, Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams — have won Wimbledon straight after the French, however, and it would take a "Herculean" effort for Barty to join that group, says Evert.
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I would like to do a shout out to Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova.
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Look at McEnroe and Borg (7–7), or Evert and Navratilova (37–43).
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Late in the novel, Johnny maneuvers a reunion between his father and Evert.
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FYI, Evert and Mill had 3 kids together before they divorced in 2006.
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Keys, who long trained at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
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The public knows them as Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Evonne Goolagong.
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R. Cawley (better known as Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Evonne Goolagong).
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"Before the injury, Sloane was nonchalant and blasé with body language," Evert said.
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"I'm still shaking," said Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open singles champion.
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S.) beat Virginia Ruzici (Romania) 6-0 6-3 1979 Chris Evert-Lloyd (U.
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Evert said an aggressive weapon was a must these days, to stand any chance.
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Evert thinks maybe 50 people were doing CrossFit in the whole country back then.
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S.) beat Virginia Ruzici (Romania) 6-0 63-3 1979 Chris Evert-Lloyd (U.
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The others are Navratilova, Evert, Monica Seles, Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams.
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"As you get older, your priorities change," said Evert, who turns 65 next month.
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Think back to Steffi Graf, who arrived and toppled Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.
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Think back to Steffi Graf, who arrived and toppled Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.
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"They weren't noticeable at all because our dresses were longer," Evert said in 2014.
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"I love my life now where I play tennis and mentor daily at Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton," said Evert, looking trim and fit in a beautiful wine-colored Zac Rosen gown with older sons Alexander and Nicholas on each arm.
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Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova took us just like a huge step forward and up.
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S.) beat Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) 24-21935 26-22 26-21 219153 Chris Evert (U.
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Chris Evert reached the semi-finals in three of the last four majors she entered.
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"At some point it's got to be overwhelming, and she's a human being," Evert said.
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"He lived life with an energy and passion and gusto that few have," Evert says.
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One day he arrives at Evert Dax's house in Cranley Gardens to deliver a painting.
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Evert sent back a defensive lob, which Shriver returned with a tentative backhand overhead volley.
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S.) beat Martina Navratilova (Czechoslovakia) 2-6 6-23 6-1 1974 Chris Evert (U.
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Chris Evert played the Australian Open just six times; John McEnroe five; Bjorn Borg once.
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"No matches on clay, that's wild," said Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open champion.
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"It was a rivalry before we played, because it was so built up," Evert said.
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Chris Evert, the former No. 235, said she communicated with Williams via text on Wednesday.
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Evert believes the 21-year-old is now ready to mount a serious Wimbledon challenge.
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"A healthy Serena is a dangerous Serena; she hasn't been healthy all year," Evert said.
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"I would be happy to date but I have found that all of the good ones are married," Evert told PEOPLE Saturday night during the 30th annual Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic presented by Chase Private Client at Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club.
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"I think that equal-prize-money issue is like it's just a no-brainer," Evert said.
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Williams also failed to break a tie with Chris Evert for the most U.S. Open championships.
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She would also pass Chris Evert for the most United States Open singles titles with seven.
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Chris Evert is one of the most accomplished tennis players in the history of the game.
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Then came another lob from Evert that Shriver had to hurry back for a forehand return.
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"A big Congratulations to @ashbar96," American 18-times Grand Slam champion Chris Evert wrote on Twitter.
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Hopes intensified when she made it to the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1985, losing to Evert.
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"We didn't have the big names here," said Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open champion.
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"It was dirty," Texas Storm parent Aprill Evert says of the "head shot" that took Erik down.
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Sports legends Peyton Manning, Phil Mickelson, Chris Evert, Mike Krzyzewski and Albert Pujols paid tribute as well.
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"No drama tonight, no screaming," the former No. 1 Chris Evert said in an interview Wednesday night.
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The good news for Evert -- she says she's on great terms with Mill and considers him family.
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When they met again in 1980, Austin seemed poised to unseat Evert for good as No. 1.
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"Jeanne was selfless, caring and kind," Chris Evert was quoted as saying in the funeral home's obituary.
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"We never hugged," said Pam Shriver, who played throughout the 1980s against Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
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"I know one thing, never underestimate Serena," former player Brad Gilbert said on the same call as Evert.
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S.) beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 27-25 24-26 26 Margaret Court (Australia) beat Chris Evert (U.
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Evert added that Williams should have been told about the abuse rule before she was penalized for it.
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"The real fault was the rule," Evert said at the Buoniconti Fund's 33rd Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner.
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Evert's father is a famous writer, though Evert prefers painting to literature and hopes to be an artist.
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"Chris has really helped women's tennis," said Billie Jean King that year after beating Evert in straight sets.
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S.) beat Olga Morozova (Soviet Union) 6-1 6-2 1973 Margaret Court (Australia) beat Chris Evert (U.
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"Patience is such a big factor on clay," said Chris Evert, a seven-time French Open singles champion.
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After moving from Rock Island to Florida to train at the Evert Tennis Academy, Keys quickly attracted hype.
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"Look, I would pick the field over her only because of her lack of match play," Evert said.
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Three women have done it: Steffi Graf with 107, Chris Evert with 157 and Martina Navratilova with 123.
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But Evert said the added pressures of the modern game might also be hindering the development of rivalries.
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"Something is holding her back, and it could be nerves," 18-times grand slam champion Chris Evert said.
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Former 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert recently told us clay and grass isn't Osaka's favored surface anyway.
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Evert is nonetheless set on Sparsholt, and the tension between them climaxes at last in a dorm-room seduction.
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By chance, he is sent to deliver a painting to a house that turns out to belong to Evert.
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"For a long time, Mary was a shy, introverted, vulnerable young girl," said Evert, whom Pierce grew up idolizing.
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One of the few people in the stands rooting for Connors that day was his former fiancée, Chris Evert.
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You may also notice that Graf, Evert and Navratilova each have a horizontal segment at zero Grand Slam titles.
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"To me, the last great one was Monica and Steffi," Evert said, referring to Monica Seles and Steffi Graf.
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Evert pointed to Muguruza and Madison Keys, the rising American star who won the WTA event in Stanford, Calif.
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"The women are getting better and getting more and more confident against her as time goes on," Evert added.
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In the past, select teenagers lived full time in one of the U.S.T.A.'s facilities, like the Evert Academy.
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Evert, however, believes with Williams now 34, Muguruza is poised to take over when her powers begin to fade.
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"Naomi was rushed and didn't have time to dictate," said Chris Evert, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion.
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" As for Serena's legacy, Evert thinks "this is a blip on the whole picture of what she's done for women.
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Tennis legend Chris Evert also offered her well wishes to Hurd's family, praising him for his dedication to the sport.
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She is also in pursuit of a record seventh U.S. Open title, which would break a tie with Chris Evert.
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"She has a shot (at the title)," seven-times French Open champion Evert, an analyst for broadcaster ESPN, told Reuters.
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"Doesn't surprise me at all," said Chris Evert, the ESPN analyst and former world No. 1 who knows Williams well.
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Founded in 1937 by Pieter W. Louwman, father of the Bonhams co-owner Evert Louwman, the zoo closed in 1985.
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But Chris Evert won the U.S. Open both years, so there was one two-time major champion in that span.
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Eventually, the sea star is able to evert its entire stomach into the gap and eat its prey from within.
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"Great rivalries bring in more people, more fans and more interest, even for people not interested in sports," Evert added.
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The win over Evert put Wade in the final against Stove, who had taken out the second-seeded Martina Navratilova.
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But remember, I always had Billie Jean King, Chris Evert had Martina Navratilova to beat, and then Steffi Graf came in.
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Those in attendance include Peyton Manning, Jack Nicklaus, Phil Mickelson, Mike Krzyzewski, Chris Evert, Jim Nantz, Fred Couples and Jim Calhoun.
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While the match is a huge occasion for Stephens, seven-times French Open champion Chris Evert believes Halep needs it more.
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As a 2121-year-old at the 212009 U.S. Open, Chris Evert took two weeks off from high school to play.
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"What set Mary apart was her single-mindedness," said Chris Evert, winner of 18 major championships, including seven at Roland Garros.
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Peyton Manning, the retired N.F.L. quarterback, paid his respects, as did Chris Evert, the tennis star, and Jack Nicklaus, the golfer.
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"Martina was just supreme on the grass," said Evert, who was 23 and a two-time Wimbledon champion at the time.
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Navratilova proceeded to save two break points and hold serve for 4-2, which, Evert said, swung momentum in her favor.
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Although tennis star Chris Evert is super busy and fulfilled with her work and family, she is open to dating again.
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S.) 231915-231919 231914-235 237 Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Sylvia Hanika (Germany) 236-234 236-6 1980 Chris Evert-Lloyd (U.
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"I am a little worried about her fitness if she's going to keep getting injured but I love her game," said Evert.
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Chris Evert is remembering her longtime friend President George H.W. Bush in the wake of his death at age 94 on Friday.
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"I feel so privileged that I have had a friendship with George Bush for over 40 years," Chris Evert, 63, tells PEOPLE.
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No one is as smitten as Evert Dax, a shy aesthete whose appreciation of the younger man has the coloring of obsession.
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Evert is 203, with short, silver hair, chiseled features, and the physique of a competitive bodybuilder, which he was in his 220s.
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Chris Evert, a former top tennis player, tweeted that Ramos should have warned Williams about the verbal abuse violation before penalizing her.
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"I will never forget it," said Carillo, who walked into her first board meeting to find King, Evert and Navratilova sitting there.
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S.) 7-6 19083-1 1981 Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Sylvia Hanika (Germany) 6-2 6-4 1980 Chris Evert-Lloyd (U.
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The last time it happened in New York was in 1981, when Navratilova, Evert, Tracy Austin and Barbara Potter reached the semifinals.
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Chris Evert won seven women's singles titles here over a 20093-year period, but never won more than two in a row.
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Evert hit an uncharacteristic high forehand volley that smacked Navratilova squarely on the head, prompting her to fall back in feigned pain.
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Evert said she believes Williams needs to work on covering as much ground on the court as she did five years ago.
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The performance gave Williams her 100th singles victory at the U.S. Open, one short of the women's record held by Chris Evert.
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Evert enjoys the time spent with her sons who accompanied her to the gala, and she and Mill still enjoy a warm relationship.
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"I think tomorrow is a bigger moment for Simona Halep than it is for Sloane Stephens," Evert, a Eurosport analyst, said on Friday.
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Tennis star Chris Evert spoke candidly about her marriage to Olympian Andy Mill, revealing that menopause played a part in their 2006 divorce.
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For Evert, who had won three straight U.S. Open titles on clay before the move, the new site took some getting used to.
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"It was really different," Evert said of playing at Flushing Meadows, which had a 19,500-seat main stadium and a 6,000-seat grandstand.
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The previous day, Evert had won the singles title for the third consecutive time — and second straight without the loss of a set.
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"The emotion, passion and game came back," said Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open champion who is an analyst for Eurosport here.
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The game's highest-profile romantic pairing was Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors, who were briefly engaged in 1974 when they both won Wimbledon.
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"I think she's going to have a tough Wimbledon," Evert, a three-times Wimbledon champion said in an ESPN conference call this week.
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S.) 683-673 663-653 643 - Gabriela Sabatini (Argentina) beat Graf 633-623 613-603 211969 - Graf beat Navratilova 216-212 216-212 211968-216 214 - Graf beat Sabatini 216-214 3-6 6-1 1987 - Navratilova beat Graf 7-63 6-1 1986 - Navratilova beat Sukova 6-3 6-2 1985 - Hana Mandlikova (Czechoslovakia) beat Navratilova 7-13 1-6 7-6 1984 - Navratilova beat Chris Evert-Lloyd 4-6 6-4 19693-4 1983 - Navratilova beat Evert-Lloyd 6-1 6-3 1982 - Evert-Lloyd beat Mandlikova 6-3 63-1 1981 - Tracy Austin (U.
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This is not to say that the second coming of a Jimmy Connors, a Pete Sampras or another Chris Evert would not be welcome.
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"I always felt like Caroline would be a late bloomer because she has an all-court game," said Chris Evert, the former No. 1.
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Increasing her pace and working more angles as the match progressed, Evert hit 24 winners in acclimating her game to the green hard court.
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It has also been the stage for compelling tennis matches involving the likes of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg.
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Until the champions Chris Evert, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors popularized the two-handed backhand in the 1970s, the one-hander was the norm.
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While the tournament regularly subjects competitors to blistering heat, 18-times Grand Slam singles winner Evert said the poor breathing conditions demanded increased precautions.
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Evert also would like to see more of Keys against her fellow American CoCo Vandeweghe, one of the best servers on the WTA Tour.
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Early in Evert Dubin's career, tennis fans speculated that her talent could eclipse that of her sister Chris, but it was not to be.
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Her demeanor at times caused ESPN commentator Chris Evert in January to question whether Stephens had a "burning desire" to win Grand Slam tournaments.
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Her record outside the major tournaments has not been as consistently excellent as that of predecessors like Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf.
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Only six women — Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams — have managed that in the professional era.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Simona Halep has the French Open title in her grasp and will "not let it go" now, according to claycourt great Chris Evert.
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Just a few years after the end of the Chris Evert-Martina Navratilova rivalry, a powerful symbiosis was developing between two new dominant world-beaters.
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You see Nastase, the Romanian tennis genius long past his prime, clowning for Evert and Virginia Ruzici, Nastase's fellow Romanian star, in the players' lounge.
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"It really doesn't look good two years in a row not playing," said Chris Evert, a former No. 1 player who will be in Singapore.
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"This is a title she has won twice and this is a surface that gives her a little more time to set up," Evert said.
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Over the course of 19703 years, Florida's Chris Evert, and Prague-born Martina Navratilova would play each other 80 times — 60 of them in finals.
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"We've had a very special era with Serena dominating and setting the higher standard, a higher level of professionalism and athleticism in tennis," Evert said.
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It will be the first all-American U.S. Open final not involving one of the Williams sisters since Martina Navratilova beat Chris Evert in 1984.
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Horvath, then 250 and unseeded, had reached the final of the German Open in Berlin the week before, losing to Chris Evert in straight sets.
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But almost everyone in the stands that day expected Navratilova to win easily and go on to face the second-seeded Evert in the final.
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"Something happened that must not have been good, although that's just speculation," said Evert, who often watched Osaka and Bajin train in Boca Raton, Fla.
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"For some dinners, I will have a grass-fed hamburger or even pizza, and I enjoy a chocolate chip cookie if I want it," Evert says.
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Evert bought the place back in 2003 for $2.8 mil -- and she's listing it with Douglas Elliman Real Estate for $4.99 mil ... not a bad investment!
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Evert Dudok, a senior official with Europe's largest aerospace company Airbus Group SE, called for adoption of Europe-wide or global standards in the cyber arena.
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"I don't think Halep is going to let go of the title now," Evert, adding her vast Roland Garros knowledge to broadcaster Eurosport's coverage, told Reuters.
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"We didn't have the big names here this year but ... I have to say a star is born," Evert, working as pundit for broadcaster Eurosport said.
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Its object, the young David Sparsholt, is already engaged to his boyhood sweetheart, but by the end of term he and Evert will have slept together.
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Another former champion Chris Evert reckons Williams is still the favorite but says other players are seeing a chink in her armor as she gets older.
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After her short 15-month third marriage to golfer Greg Norman ended in 2009, Evert vowed to look inward, make her own decisions, and become more independent.
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"There are probably eight to 10 women who could win (the title), which is something we've said the past two years," Evert told reporters on a call.
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" In addition, Chris Evert said that the Williams sisters' "athletic ability and raw aggression make it hard for the women who aren't Amazons to compete with them.
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Serena Williams got a "raw deal" at the U.S. Open -- all because of a DUMB rule that should be changed immediately ... so says tennis great Chris Evert.
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"She has that intangible championship quality that not a lot of players have," three-times Wimbledon champion Chris Evert said as she previewed the tournament for ESPN.
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By match time, Shriver had regained her tactical calm, waiting for the Evert groundstroke to land short and allow for an approach behind her under slice forehand.
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It was the right play against Evert, as Navratilova would agree, but of the 45 times Shriver got to net, she won only 18 of the points.
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"It's better for the players and better for the public," she said, after the poised Shriver had thanked Evert as a behavioral role model, win or lose.
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In what the media called her "return to the throne," Evert played as if she had something to prove to both her challenger and the tennis world.
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The U.S.T.A. Billie Jean King National Tennis Center looked very different when Mandlikova upset No. 2000 Chris Evert and No. 218 Martina Navratilova to win that title.
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"You've got to put your money on Muguruza because first of all, you have to have power in today's game," Evert said of the hard-hitting Muguruza.
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You came up in a golden age of women's tennis, with Navratilova and Chris Evert, Graf, Monica Seles, Jennifer Capriati, Davenport, Martina Hingis and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
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"There's so many things that may be going against Serena, and she thrives on that, and she loves that, and that's when she comes through," said Evert.
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The German's latest victory was completed under the watchful gaze of some of the most famous names in the sport, including Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Monica Seles.
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Peter and Evert maneuver fiercely for David's affections, regardless of the fact that he has a fiancée; and one of them gets what he wants, for a price.
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Several players raised in South Florida — including Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Chris Evert — are past women's champions on Key Biscayne, and Stephens, who is from Plantation, Fla.
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She said she believed her early support structures in tennis — first at the Evert Academy and then with the United States Tennis Association — kept her protected but insulated.
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With the year's first tennis major starting on Monday in Melbourne, Evert — along with John McEnroe — told reporters that air quality should be paramount in tournament organisers' minds.
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"I have a big family, and Christmas was important to us," said Chris Evert, who lost to Evonne Goolagong in the 2000 final and didn't return until 250.
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"Anybody who doesn't think she's going to win a Grand Slam has to have their head examined," 18-times Grand Slam title winner Chris Evert said pre-tournament.
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At the Evert Academy, where Blackman used to be based, there was not enough room to accommodate all of that, and too often he was turning down requests.
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What is beyond dispute is that Williams has not been nearly as consistent in regular tour events during her career as players like Navratilova, Chris Evert and Graf.
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"Venus is a very capable claycourt player, she's won grand slams before and the mental part of the game is going to be very important this year," Evert said.
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He sought solace from a string of female celebrities including Chris Evert, Dinah Shore and Tammy Wynette — but it was Sally Field who seemed to leave a lasting impression.
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Norris, who now passes on his knowledge to juniors at the Evert Academy, feels rather than on-court injuries, the biggest threat to a player's health is "heat illness".
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" King said the Evert-Navratilova rivalry "is not only one of the most important rivalries in tennis, it is one of the most important rivalries in all of sports.
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But the ascent of the two-handers Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Borg, who from 26 and 210 collectively won 26 Wimbledon singles titles, began to turn the tables.
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"I know that the mandatories are loaded with the top players and they are important, but for me a Grand Slam should be worth three of those," Evert said.
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"There's a different look in her eyes since she came back," said Chris Evert, a former No. 1 player who has known Stephens since she was a junior player.
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"There's no rivalry whatsoever right now," said Chris Evert, whose battles with Martina Navratilova stretched across the 216s and '210s, including 14 Grand Slam finals and 80 total matches.
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"Serena and players like Caroline have carried the torch for so long now, and in a sense, it's starting to be handed over to the younger generation," Evert said.
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Whether or not the 22-year-old can make the quick switch from clay to grass and deal with the new-found expectation is questionable though, according to Evert.
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"We all know Serena is very dangerous when she's fit and when she's healthy," said Chris Evert, the former world No. 1 who is now an analyst for ESPN.
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A win on Saturday would also give the 36-year-old American a seventh U.S. Open title, breaking a tie with Chris Evert for the most in the Open era.
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The new student was 2180 years old, points out his biographer, Evert Schoorl, with a pregnant wife, four children and a successful career in politics and letters trailing behind him.
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MIAMI — Novak Djokovic made peace with Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Serena Williams and others Wednesday, supporting equal prize money for men and women in tennis after days of controversy.
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She spoke with us about the first one and her victory against Chris Evert on July 7, 1978, which was bittersweet because her family could not be there with her.
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And finally a fourth lob kissed the baseline, leaving a weary Shriver no other option than a weak forehand floater that an advancing Evert punched back into the open court.
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For Evert, "a strictly raised boy in an unusually good suit who seemed to gaze at pleasure as at the far bank of a river," an erotic obsession is born.
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Evert won seven times at Roland Garros, three at Wimbledon and six times at the U.S. Open, while Martina Navratilova captured nine Wimbledons, four U.S. Opens and two French Opens.
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"This is a much bigger challenge on clay than on grass," Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open champion, said of Williams, noting that fitness and movement are essential here.
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"Maybe one of the problems was that, when I went into matches with her, I was kind of negative because I felt like she was always the favorite," Evert said.
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Evert said the New York crowd could give the American the boost she needs to avenge her defeat by Japan's Naomi Osaka in a controversial final at Flushing Meadows last year.
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I'll take the incredible talent and sportsmanship of Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl, Arthur Ashe, Steffi Graf, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and so many more who graced the courts of the world.
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"I was one of the last ones that used the wood racket, so — and not to say that I'm not a progressive person — I liked to stick with tradition," Evert said.
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A ruthless Williams, however, bombarded Svitolina with punishing forehands and six aces to register her 101st U.S. Open win, which tied her with Chris Evert for the most at Flushing Meadows.
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The conversation is quickly derailed, however, when one of them, Evert Dax, who is gay, spots a handsome young man in a singlet lifting weights in a room across the quad.
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After long-fought battles by champions like Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, and Venus and Serena Williams, tennis has seen the most progress when it comes to pay equity.
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When Martina Navratilova was attacking the net in the 1970s and 1980s against her baseline-hugging archrival Chris Evert and others, the gulf between styles and tennis philosophies was much wider.
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In the semifinals, Wade played what she called "the best match I ever played" in dispatching the top seed and the defending champion, Chris Evert, 6-2, 4-6, 6-403.
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"They make a lot of money at the U.S. Open, and they should put it back into developing tennis at every level," Chris Evert said at the opening ceremony on Thursday.
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It was the first of many classics at Kooyong, where everyone from Don Budge and Maureen Connolly to Rod Laver and Margaret Court to Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert made their marks.
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She was bidding to become only the fourth mum to win a Grand Slam title in the professional era and the first at Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong beat Chris Evert in 22.
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In the novel's third section, Francesca, the spirited, beautiful daughter of aristocrats in Evert Dax's set, asks Johnny if he'll donate sperm so that she and her girlfriend can have a child.
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"I think with a lot of players, hunger comes before results, and I think with Madison, her results came before hunger," said Evert, who has known Keys since Keys was a child.
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During the Open era of spiraling commercial gain, Chris Evert brilliantly made that case, forever paired with Martina Navratilova, along with Steffi Graf, Venus and Serena Williams, and Monica Seles, among others.
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Hours after losing to Chris Evert in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, Martina Navratilova sat in a secret meeting with F.B.I. agents, where she declared her intention to defect from Czechoslovakia.
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"I think at the end of the day there's been such a big gap between Serena and the rest of the field," the former No. 1 Chris Evert said in an interview.
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American Madison Keys, ranked 16, plays a similar power game to Muguruza and could go all the way, according to former U.S. Open champion Chris Evert who will be commentating for ESPN.
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"It's by far the most wide-open field as far as I can remember," Chris Evert, the former No. 1 and a seven-time French Open champion, said in an interview Tuesday.
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Tennis legend Chris Evert -- the former #1 ranked player in the world -- is selling her Boca Raton mansion (complete with its own tennis court) ... and it's all yours if you've got $5 MIL!
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" Fellow American Chris Evert, an 18-time grand slam champion, tweeted: "Now is the Golden Era 4 men, no doubt, but women have worked, fought harder, and have been bigger draws many times.
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Tennis great Chris Evert says menopause is at least partly to blame for the demise of her marriage to Olympian Andy Mill ... insinuating the hormonal change had a major impact on the relationship.
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Four athletes from one of gymnastics' top training facilities, Evert Gymnastics in North Carolina, have come forward with allegations of physical and mental abuse from coach Qi Han, the New York Times reports.
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Serena still holds a 17-12 overall record against her older sister, and their 15 meetings at Grand Slam events is second only to the 22 contested between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
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Williams and Osaka stood next to each other on the podium with the former champions Chris Evert and Billie Jean King and the U.S.T.A. president, Katrina Adams, but no one smiled at first.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Garbine Muguruza is in for a tough Wimbledon but is favorite to take over from Serena Williams at the head of the women's game, according to former American great Chris Evert.
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"We have equal prize money, so why do we not have equal representation on Centre Court and Court 1?" asked Chris Evert, the former women's No. 1, in an interview with BBC Radio.
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Enter Evert ... who tells TMZ Sports both sides deserved blame for the altercation -- but ultimately, it proves the anti-coaching rule is stupid and should be done away with since EVERYONE breaks it anyway.
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"I have to laugh, but that was the Wimbledon I fell in love with John Lloyd," Evert said of her first husband, a British player whom she married in 1979 and divorced in 1987.
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Konta was born in Australia but plays for Britain, and she is the first British woman to reach a quarterfinal of the U.S. Open since Jo Durie lost to Chris Evert there in 1983.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — In late March, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert held a joint news conference to address comments by Raymond Moore, the director of the annual professional tennis tournament in Indian Wells, Calif.
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When she beat Kerber in the quarterfinals on grass at Eastbourne last month, she became the first Briton to beat the reigning No. 1 since Sue Barker defeated Chris Evert in Boston in 1979.
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Keys' victory ensured Americans grabbed all of the semi-finals berths at Flushing Meadows for the first time since Tracy Austin, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Barbara Potter filled the final four spots in 1981.
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"There's just an abundance of talent but it's very unpredictable at the top," three-time Wimbledon champion Chris Evert said on the eve of Wimbledon where she is working as a summarizer for broadcaster ESPN.
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CreditCreditRichard Burbridge for The New York Times It was just before noon on a swampy July morning when Nick Kyrgios came walking through the parking lot of the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
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"Barty has so much variety, a little more experience and I think she's had a better year so far and a good claycourt season," said Eurosport expert and 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert.
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High up in the commentary booth, Chris Evert, a seven-time French Open champion, was tearing up, too, well aware of how it feels to have a Grand Slam drought come to a happy end.
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Navratilova had beaten Evert in the final of a warm-up event in Eastbourne, England, 9-7 in the third set, claiming only her fourth victory in their 24 career meetings up to that point.
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"You can never count her out because she's Serena, but it's increasingly getting more difficult," said Chris Evert, the ESPN commentator and 26-time Grand Slam singles champion, in an interview late on Friday night.
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Williams already has six Open titles, tied with Chris Evert for the most in the Open era, and her next major title will give her 24, matching Margaret Court's record of 24 major singles titles.
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Crashes out again early in 2014 Australian Open, but claims seven titles, including her sixth U.S. Open, which is her third in succession, to join compatriots Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on 18 grand slam titles.
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Keys boasts the kind of destructive weapons ideally suited to grass, particularly a first serve that three-times Wimbledon champion Chris Evert describes as a match for the booming delivery of world number one Serena Williams.
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"I am so amazed at the composure and intensity she had the whole tournament," said Chris Evert, the former No. 21 who has known Puig for years and regularly watches her train in Boca Raton, Fla.
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The stadium's most famous day was not Connors against Krickstein, but Super Saturday in 1984, when two men's semifinals (Ivan Lendl-Pat Cash and Connors-John McEnroe) and the women's final (Evert-Navratilova) went the distance.
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In 1981, Tracy Austin, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Barbara Potter comprised the final four, with Austin going on to defeat Navratilova in a taut final, 7-6, 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (7-1).
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"I don't know much about co-parenting, but I see my children as often as possible," Rossdale, 54, told PEOPLE during the Chris Evert Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic Saturday night at Florida's Boca Raton Resort & Club.
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Lawrence G. Evert, to a rice paddy in a tiny town 17 miles northeast of Hanoi and searched, along with scores of villagers, for the remnants of an F-105D fighter-bomber that had crashed in 1967.
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He's unaware of Evert's connection to his father at first—in fact, the "Sparsholt Affair" that concerns Johnny is a famous scandal involving his father and an MP, not the fling at Oxford between David and Evert.
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"That was very special to be a part of, because that was a home run for tennis, bigger than all of us," said Evert, who recalled sharing Navratilova's bagels while they waited for Lendl to outlast Cash.
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There is Evert, who became something of a father figure to Johnny; and there is Johnny himself, who ends up happily partnered, embracing the kind of tranquil domestic existence that for his father was only a front.
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When her goal was 18 wins, in order to tie with tennis legends Christine Evert and Martina Navratilova, Williams recalls how she made the mistake of allowing the stress of the game to negatively impact her performance.
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By the 1980 Open, Evert had met her match in Tracy Austin, another all-American blonde who had ended Evert's 125-match clay court winning streak and her four-year reign as Open champion one year earlier.
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The temperature in Boca Raton had soared above 19953 degrees, but on a side court at the Evert Tennis Academy, Naomi Osaka was just digging into one of her last training sessions before the summer hardcourt season.
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While many thought the new court might be named for an American champion, perhaps the six-time U.S. Open winner Chris Evert or the four-time victor John McEnroe, a New Yorker, that discussion never got started.
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Although Evert, 61, didn't go too far into the specifics during a Tuesday appearance on Lance Armstrong's The Forward Podcast, she did hint that the hormonal changes associated with menopause had negative affects on her 18-year marriage.
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It turns out that Freddie Green's reminiscences about a romance between his friends Evert Dax and David Sparsholt were just that—an old document written down years later for The Cranley Gardens Memoir Club, aka the Memo Club.
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The sport has also produced a steady stream of truly global stars with staying power, from Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in the WTA's early years to Maria Sharapova, who may not play much longer, and Serena Williams.
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Shriver's Open run was impressive — especially her takedown of Martina Navratilova in two semifinal tiebreakers — but she has some figurative growing to do before she can expect to topple Evert, the queen of big-match calculation and cool.
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"There were, like, 20 straight years of really serious, intense rivalries, which was one of the reasons why women's tennis came to the fore," said Pam Shriver, who played Evert and Navratilova dozens of times in her career.
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Chris Evert was one of the most dominant tennis players in the history of the sport, ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the world among female players from 1975 to 1986 in a Hall of Fame career.
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"Even more than the physical part, the emotional part is the toughest one to try to figure out for Serena to be successful... and also to feel guilt-free that she's spending enough time with her child," Evert added.
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Once the '79 winter circuit had ended, players, like Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong and Billie Jean King, moved on to the Colgate Series Championships that included tournaments at the French Open, Wimbledon and the United States Open.
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Now she will head to London trying to join an elite list of greats — Margaret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams — to win the French Open and Wimbledon titles back-to-back.
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Tom PetriThomas (Tom) Evert PetriKeep our elections free and fair Break the cycle of partisanship with infant, child health care programs Combine healthcare and tax reform to bring out the best in both MORE (Wis.) and John Kline (Minn.).
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The rivalry between Navratilova, an aggressive serve-and-volleyer, and the baseliner Evert "gave a lot of people an interest in who to cheer for," said Shriver, a former top-ranked doubles player who is now an ESPN broadcaster.
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Originally, there was not much prize money, so the game's elite played plenty of doubles to earn more: Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe and especially John McEnroe won multiple doubles Grand Slams, as did Billie Jean King, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
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Evert was trying to serve out a well-contested 25-25, 245-45 victory Sunday on the concrete-laden stage named for Louis Armstrong when a solid approach shot sent her scurrying toward the right corner at 224-21975, deuce.
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Whatever the affair with Evert may mean to him (it is never made clear), David goes on to marry his fiancée and procreate; the next time we see him, it is through the eyes of his 14-year-old son.
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Evert Duin, an associate professor in biochemistry at Auburn University and another co-author of the study, said the next step is securing regulatory approval for the compound that would allow its commercial use in the United States and elsewhere.
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It is the first time the United States (or any country) has claimed all four semifinalists at a women's Grand Slam event since Wimbledon in 1985, when Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Zina Garrison and Kathy Rinaldi were the last four.
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The inner mumblings worked wonders as she finally produced the kind of shots that had impressed Chris Evert so much that the American great had picked the Russian 14th seed as the "one who will definitely be dangerous at Roland Garros".
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World number one Osaka, who has struggled since winning the Australian Open in January and had a quiet hard court season, could like Williams benefit from the energetic backing of the New York crowd as she looks to retain her title, Evert said.
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The 25-year-old, who arrived as world number four but can top the WTA rankings if she beats unseeded Jelena Ostapenko in Saturday's showpiece, was the pick of seven-time champion Evert before the tournament and nothing has altered her view.
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"It almost has to start from the grass roots because I think a lot of these kids grow up with men's coaches and sort of go from man to man as they move up," said Chris Evert, a former No. 1 player.
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The legacy he couldn't receive directly from his father is passed down to him instead by a group of gay writers and artists who take him on as a protégé — a group that includes Evert Dax, his father's lover from long ago.
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If anyone had a right to lament the move from the clay courts at Forest Hills three miles away, it was Evert, who hasn't lost a set on clay since 1975 and hadn't dropped a match on the slower surface since 1973.
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The daughter of a Japanese mother and Haitian father, Osaka was born in Japan before moving at age 3 with her family to the United States, where she is still based, training frequently at the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
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With one more U.S. Open title, she would break a tie with Chris Evert for the most in the Open era, and her next Grand Slam title would give her 24, tying her with Margaret Court for the most in any era.
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Serena is seeking her seventh U.S. Open title this year, which would break a tie with Evert for most in the Open era, and securing her 24th major trophy would break a tie with Margaret Court for the most in any era.
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Sports ran a brief roundup of what was missed: Three paragraphs were devoted to the World Series (the Yankees won), with just one each for the Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks fight (Ali won) and the U.S. Open (Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won).
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"There are a handful of players who are going to overpower her right now, but by the end of the year I wouldn't be surprised if she was top 225," said Chris Evert, who has been mentoring Bellis through a U.S.T.A. program.
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The number 17 seed has spoken openly about the challenges she has faced trying to combine being a mum and a professional tennis player, and 18-times Grand Slam winner Chris Evert says Serena must find a way to channel her emotions on court.
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"To turn the switch on and off (between being a tennis player and a mother) is very difficult, and that's what Serena's trying to navigate," Evert, who will be part of ESPN's coverage of the U.S. Open in New York, said on a conference call.
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Tom PetriThomas (Tom) Evert PetriKeep our elections free and fair Break the cycle of partisanship with infant, child health care programs Combine healthcare and tax reform to bring out the best in both MORE (R-Wis.) served in the House of Representatives from 1979-2015.
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"What I want from my players is that they compete with their rivals for two days," added Mauresmo who is hoping to become the fourth woman, after Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert, to win the Fed Cup as a player and captain.
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"I think she made it a thing to show up late, because you got punished," remembered Evert, who would make Annie, when late, do 100 burpees or 100 push ups before joining the rest of the group, or wear a weight vest throughout the workout.
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Her work in this vein continues today, with projects that highlight female athletes like Swoopes, a documentary she directed on Sheryl Swoopes, and 30 for 30's Unmatched, a film about the friendship and rivalry between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, which she co-produced.
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Sports ran a brief roundup of what had been missed: It devoted three paragraphs to the World Series (the Yankees won), and just one each for the Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks fight (Ali won) and the U.S. Open (Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won).
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The last time four American women reached the semifinals of a Grand Slam event was at Wimbledon in 1985 when Chris Evert, Kathy Rinaldi, Zina Garrison and eventual champion Martina Navratilova completed the sweep (there were also seven American women in the quarterfinals that year).
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"As much as I want to follow in the footsteps of Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert, I'm ranked 92 in the world this week, so my voice is not going to matter nearly to the extent that theirs have," Gibbs said.
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"I really needed to be by myself," continues Evert, who looked tan and trim in a long gown and diamond drop earrings after a day of hosting and playing in the tennis classic at the Delray Beach Tennis Center with her Sunday tournament partner, Dr. Phil McGraw.
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Tom PetriThomas (Tom) Evert PetriKeep our elections free and fair Break the cycle of partisanship with infant, child health care programs Combine healthcare and tax reform to bring out the best in both MORE represented Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District from 1979 to 2015 as a Republican.
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The two grand slams she has played since resuming her career have resulted in fourth-round losses but having reunited with former coach Thomas Hogstedt last month, the five-times major winner is moving back in the right direction, according to Roland Garros great Chris Evert.
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Williams, 37, is battling to be fit for Roland Garros having pulled out of the Italian Open last Tuesday due to a persistent knee injury.. Only five women have successfully defended their titles at the French Open - Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Monica Seles, Steffi Graf and Henin.
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From Amsterdam to Australia, architects like Mr. van Oppen and his team at BETA, the local firm he co-founded with Evert Klinkenberg, are designing striking homes that make cross-generational care for aging baby boomers and overworked parents as easy as a walk down the hallway.
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One of the more amazing tidbits about Iceland's CrossFit dominance is that there wasn't a single CrossFit gym in all of Iceland until 250, when a man named Evert Víglundsson traveled to the United States to get his coaching license and then opened a gym in his Reykjavik garage.
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At the United States Open, the four slots were most recently filled in 1981, when Austin, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Barbara Potter comprised the final four with Austin going on to defeat Navratilova in a taut final, 1-6, 7-163 (7-4), 7-6 (7-1).
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"The fact that she dominated for so long and could break the record of Grand Slams I think that will overshadow everything at the end of the day," former world number one Evert, who will be part of ESPN's coverage of the Australian Open, told a conference call.
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Williams was asked what it would mean to her to reach 13, and how the wait — after losing in the semifinals of the United States Open and the final of the Australian Open — compared to her eight-month wait to get to 18 to tie Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
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"When Mad was with us from age 10 to 17, we saw the live arm, and it's a God-given talent — you can't teach it," Chris Evert told me on Friday, the morning after Keys dismantled CoCo Vandeweghe, 6-20093, 6-2, in little more than an hour in their semifinal.
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"Towards the end of the 1970s, when we had played 40 matches or whatever, and we were No. 1 and No. 216 in the world, I started to feel like when I walked on the court that it wasn't just any final," said Evert, who is now a broadcaster for ESPN.
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Gauff's talent aside, the attention she's grabbing fits a pattern that we often see in tennis: We're looking for the sport's next transcendent, dominating figure, someone to stand among the Williams sisters, or Steffi Graf, or Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert — a player who will dominate and win multiple Grand Slams.
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Evert said she had little doubt that the Lake Nona facility would achieve its twin objectives of growing tennis and producing another No. 1 player like herself, even at the relatively small cost of forcing her to find a few more pupils to fill the newly created space at her academy.
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S.) beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 63-2 6-0 1978 Virginia Ruzici (Romania) beat Mima Jausovec (Yugoslavia) 6-2 6-2 1977 Mima Jausovec (Yugoslavia) beat Florenta Mihai (Romania) 23-2 6-7 23-21937 26 Sue Barker (Britain) beat Renata Tomanova (Czechoslovakia) 22-26 24-253 26-23 26 Chris Evert (U.
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S.) beat Wendy Turnbull (Australia) 6-2 6-0 1978 Virginia Ruzici (Romania) beat Mima Jausovec (Yugoslavia) 6-2 23-2 1977 Mima Jausovec (Yugoslavia) beat Florenta Mihai (Romania) 6-2 6-7 6-1 1976 Sue Barker (Britain) beat Renata Tomanova (Czechoslovakia) 63-2 0-6 6-2 1975 Chris Evert (U.
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Like Gauff, who has reached Monday's fourth round while playing all of her main-draw matches on one of Wimbledon's two biggest show courts, Evert was a regular on center court in her debut at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, where the U.S. Open was played until 22003.
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Like Gauff, who has reached Monday's fourth round while playing all of her main-draw matches on one of Wimbledon's two biggest show courts, Evert was a regular on center court in her debut at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, where the U.S. Open was played until 22003.
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Fans of a certain age sometimes talk about Howe the way others do about sporting deities they were lucky enough to see back in the day — Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in a Grand Slam final, Sandy Koufax or Roberto Clemente going around the league one last time, Dr. J defying gravity above the rim, Jim Brown trudging back to the huddle.
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Evert had naturally expected Navratilova to show for a much-anticipated final, but the world's top-ranked player faltered in the critical moments against the high school student from the Baltimore suburb of Lutherville, Md. "I'm sick of tennis," Navratilova groused afterward, bowing to the frustration of losing to Shriver, who was playing in only her second Grand Slam event after winning two rounds at Wimbledon this summer.
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There had been jewelry on the court before, but it wasn't until the star asked an umpire at the Open to stop a match because her delicate gold-chain-with-a-diamond bracelet had fallen off and she needed to find it that it occurred to anyone that, one, valuable jewelry could be worn while playing, and two, the style got its current name (Evert referred to it as her "tennis bracelet").
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