Chris Evert
Chris Evert in the 1970s
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| Full name | Christine Marie Evert |
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| Country (sports) |
 United States
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| Residence | Boca Raton, Florida, United States |
| Born |
December 21, 1954 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Turned pro | 1972 |
| Retired | September 5, 1989 |
| Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
| Coach(es) |
Jimmy Evert Dennis Ralston |
| Prize money | $8,895,195 |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1995 (member page) |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 1309–146 (89.96%) |
| Career titles | 157 |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (November 3, 1975) |
| Grand Slam Singles results | |
| Australian Open | W (1982, 1984) |
| French Open | W (1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986) |
| Wimbledon | W (1974, 1976, 1981) |
| US Open | W (1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982) |
| Other tournaments | |
| Tour Finals | W (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 117–39 (75.0%) |
| Career titles | 32 |
| Highest ranking | No. 13 (September 12, 1988) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | F (1988) |
| French Open | W (1974, 1975) |
| Wimbledon | W (1976) |
Christine Marie "Chris" Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert-Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles titles. She was the year-ending World No. 1 singles player in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1981. Overall Evert won 157 singles championships and 32 doubles titles.
Evert reached 34 Grand Slam singles finals, more than any other player in the history of professional tennis. She reached the semifinals or better, in singles, of 52 of the 56 Grand Slams she played, including the semifinals or better of 34 consecutive Grand Slams entered from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open. Evert never lost in the first or second round of a Grand Slam singles tournament. In Grand Slam singles play, Evert won a record seven championships at the French Open.
Evert's career winning percentage in singles matches of 89.96% (1309–146) is the highest in the history of Open Era tennis, for men or women. On clay courts, her career winning percentage in singles matches of 94.55% (382–22) remains a WTA record. Evert is regarded by some to be the greatest female tennis player of all time.
Evert has served as president of the Women's Tennis Association during eleven calendar years, 1975–76 and 1983–91. She was awarded the Philippe Chatrier award and inducted into the Hall of Fame. In later life Evert was a coach and is now an analyst for ESPN and has a line of tennis and active apparel.
Evert began taking tennis lessons when she was five years old from her father Jimmy Evert (a professional tennis coach who had won the men's singles title at the Canadian Championships in 1947). By 1969 she had become the No. 1 ranked under-14 girl in the United States. Evert played her first senior tournament in that year also, reaching the semifinals in her home town of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, losing to Mary-Ann Eisel in three sets. (For years, this was the record for the furthest a player had reached in her first senior-level tournament. That record was broken when another Floridian, Jennifer Capriati, reached the final of the tournament in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1990 at the age of 13.) In 1970, Evert won the national sixteen-and-under championship and was invited to play in an eight-player clay court tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 15-year-old Evert defeated Françoise Dürr in the first round in straight sets before defeating Margaret Court 7–6, 7–6 in a semifinal. Court was the World No. 1 player and had just won the Grand Slam in singles. These results led to Evert's selection for the U.S. Wightman Cup team, the youngest player ever in the competition.
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