Category: Female Athletes, Tennis
Highlights: Tennis great Chris Evert won 18 Grand Slam singles and three doubles titles, including at least one for a record 13 years in a row. In 1995, she was inducted into the Intl Tennis Hall of Fame.
Travels From: Florida
Fee Range: $30,001 - $50,000
Chris Evert solidified her place in history as one of the greatest female tennis player ever during a pro career that spanned from 1971-1989. She played in the singles finals of 34 Grand Slam events, the most ever, and won 18 times - seven French Opens, six U.S. Opens, three Wimbledons and two Australian Opens. She also won three Grand Slam doubles titles and set a record by winning at least one Grand Slam event for 13 straight years. Evert won 90% of her matches and posted a career record of 1309-146, winning a total of 157 singles and 32 doubles tournaments. She was ranked as the world’s #1 player at the end of every year from 1974-1978 and again in 1980-1981.
Evert received many awards and accolades during her career. She was a four-time Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year recipient, named by Sports Illustrated as its Sportswoman of the Year in 1976 and voted by the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1985 as the “Greatest Woman Athlete of the Last 25 Years”. Evert became a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995 and was the recipient of the Philippe Chatrier Award in 1997, the highest honor given by the International Tennis Federation. In 2012, the Tennis Channel ranked Evert ninth overall (and fourth among women behind Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova and Margaret Court) on its list of the 100 Greatest Players in tennis history. Off the court, Evert served as the president of the Women’s Tennis Association for 11 years, owns the Evert Tennis Academy in Florida and has worked for ESPN as a tennis analyst.
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