Chris Evert

Chris Evert

Kintra	Unitit States
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Born	(1954-12-21) 21 December 1954 (age 69) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.
Hicht	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Turned pro	1972
Retired	1989
Plays	Richt-handit (twa-handit backhand)
Prize money	$8,895,195
Int. Tennis HOF	1995 (member page)
Singles
Career record	1304–144
Career titles	157
Heichest rankin	No. 1 (3 November 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)
Ither toornaments
Tour Finals	W (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977)
Doubles
Career record	117–39
Career titles	32
Heichest rankin	No. 13 (12 September 1988)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	F (1988)
French Open	W (1974, 1975)
Wimbledon	W (1976)
Last updatit on: 14 August 2006.

Christine Marie "Chris" Evert (born 21 December 1954) is a umwhile Warld No. 1 profeesional tennis player frae the Unitit States. She wan 18 Grand Slam singles championships, includin a record seiven championships at the French Open an a record sax championships at the U.S. Open. She wis the year-endin Warld No. 1 singles player in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, an 1981.

Evert's career winnin percentage in singles matches o 90.05% (1309–145) is the best in the history o profeesional tennis, man or wumman.^[1] On clay courts her career winnin percentage in singles matches o 94.05% (316–20) remains a WTA record. In tennis writer Steve Flink's beuk The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, he namit Evert as the third best female player o the 20t century, efter Steffi Graf an Martina Navratilova.^[2] Evert won til 34 Grand Slam singles feenals, mair nor ony player, man or wumman, in the history o profeesional tennis.^[3] She won til the semifeenals or better, in singles, o 52 o the 56 Grand Slams she played, includin the semifeenals or better o 34 consecutive Grand Slams played frae the 1971 U.S. Open throu the 1983 French Open.^[4] Evert niver lost in the first or seicont roond o a Grand Slam singles tournament. She wan 157 singles championships. In weemen's doubles, Evert wan three Grand Slam titles an 29 regular tour championships.

Notes

• Chris Evert at the Women's Tennis Association
• Chris Evert at the Fed Cup
• Chris Evert at the Internaitional Tennis Federation
• Chris Evert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame

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