In 1973, Evert was the runner-up at the French Open and the Wimbledon Championships.
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This defeat ended a 46-match winning streak built up through a variety of professional and junior tour events. She made two further comebacks from a set down, against fifth seed Dürr and Lesley Hunt, both seasoned professionals, before losing to top seed Billie Jean King in a semifinal in straight sets.
With Eisel serving at 6–4, 6–5 (40–0) in the second set – Evert saved six match points before going on to win 4–6, 7–6, 6–1. After an easy straight-sets win over Edda Buding in the first round, she faced the American No. Įvert made her Grand Slam tournament debut at age 16 at the 1971 US Open she received an invitation after winning the national 16-and-under championship. Wightman Cup team as the youngest player ever in the competition. These results led to Evert's selection for the U.S. 1 player and had just won the Grand Slam in singles. 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. In 1970, Evert won the national 16-and-under championship and was invited to play in an eight-player clay-court tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. That record was broken when another Floridian, Jennifer Capriati, reached the final at Boca Raton in 1990. For years, this was the record for the furthest a player had reached in her first senior-level tournament. Evert played her first senior tournament in that year also, reaching the semifinals in her hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, losing to Mary-Ann Eisel in three sets. 1 ranked under-14 girl in the United States. He was a professional tennis coach who had won the men's singles title at the Canadian Championships in 1947.
This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Chris, John, Jeanne, and Clare, all won titles at the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl in Florida. Youngest sister Clare played scholarship tennis at Southern Methodist University. Chris and her sister Jeanne became professional tennis players their brother John played tennis on scholarship at the University of Alabama and later at Vanderbilt University, and brother Drew had a tennis scholarship to Auburn University. Įvert's father was a professional tennis coach, and tennis was a way of life in his family. In later life, Evert was a coach and is now an analyst for ESPN, and has a line of tennis and active apparel.Įvert was born in 1954 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Colette ( née Thompson) and Jimmy Evert, and raised in a committed Catholic household. She was awarded the Philippe Chatrier award and inducted into the Hall of Fame.
She also won three major doubles titles, two partnering Navratilova and one partnering Olga Morozova.Įvert served as president of the Women's Tennis Association for eleven years, 1975––91. On clay courts, Evert's career winning percentage in singles matches of 94.55% (382–22) remains a WTA Tour record. Evert's career winning percentage in singles matches of 89.97% (1309–146) is the second highest in the Open Era, for men or women. Evert holds the record of most consecutive years (13) of winning at least one major title. She never lost in the first or second round of a major, and lost in the third round only twice.
In singles, Evert reached the semifinals or better in 52 of the 56 majors she played, including at 34 consecutive majors entered from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open. Alongside Martina Navratilova, her greatest rival, Evert dominated women's tennis for much of the 1970s and 1980s.Įvert contested 34 major singles finals, a record for women's tennis. 1 for 260 weeks, and was the year-end world No. Evert won 18 major singles titles, including a record seven French Open titles and a joint-record six US Open titles (tied with Serena Williams).
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