Chris Evert

Chris Evert

Facts in Brief-

    Birth--Chris Evert was born on December 21, 1954 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
    Family--Chris' father is James Evert. She has 2 sisters and one brother which are all younger than her.
    Death--She is still living a very healthy life at the age of 46.
    Awards--In 1976 she won the "Sportswomen of the Year" which was the first time ever. In 1976 she also was chosen female Rookie of the Year in World Team Tennis (WTT). Last year she was chosen as one of ESPN's "50 Greatest Athletes of the Century.

  • Why I Selected Chris Evert?
     I chose Chris Evert because I love sports and I knew she was a very good tennis player. She was also my mom's favorite tennis player and she had said how cool she was about everything she said.

    Chris Evert was introduced to tennis when she was just six years old. Her father, James, was a tennis teaching pro and was the manager of a tennis club in Fort Lauderdale. Not long after this she was playing tennis twenty hours a week. She wasn't as athletic or didn't have a lot of natural talent but her father helped her gain talent and was very influential with her growth in the game.

    At the age of 16 in 1970, Chris defeated Margaret Court, another great tennis player at the time. In 1970 Chris won an amazing 46 consecutive matches before losing to Billie Jean King. In 1971 she kept on getting better and she just kept winning more tournaments. She was doing all of this as an amateur so she couldn't win any money.

    On her eighteenth birthday in 1972 Chris Evert turned pro. In 1974 she became the number one player in the world by winning fourteen tournaments and 71 of 78 matches, including 56 in a row including a win at Wimbledon. In 1974 she was engaged to Jimmy Connors but their marriage was later called off. In 1975 she won $300,000, which was a record by either sex in the tennis world.

    In 1976 she dominated the tennis world. She won Wimbledon, U. S. Open and was beginning to win every tournament she entered. In 1977 and 1978 she won the U. S. Open for the third and fourth time. In 1979 she married John Lloyd. In the 1980's she collected each of the Grand Slam Tournaments. She retired in 1989 as one of the greatest tennis players ever.

    Bibliography:

    1) GAME, SET, & MATCH [WITH CHRIS EVERT] 7. Vol. 73 no, Hospitals & Health Networks, 06-01-1999.

    2) The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions 5, Copyright 1985, The Frontier Press Company, p. 100- 107

    3) Chris Evert, http://www.skidmore.edu/~nmatos/evert.html, Skidmore College, 2001

    4) Chris Evert, http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0109164.html, The Learning Network, 2000, 2001


    This page was created by Adam Y. on April 3, 2001.
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