Word: everts
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...Navratilova's contribution to the women's game goes beyond the nearly 170 singles titles and $20 million in prize money she has won in her career. She has left her mark as indelibly as Billie Jean King, who introduced emotion and brio to the game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after...
...show of support | for the people of that community, which overwhelmingly defeated Amendment 2." Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, significant contributors to AIDS groups, say they are troubled by the vote but have no plans to move. Other fun couples -- Robert Wagner and Jill St. John, Chris Evert and Andy Mill -- are expected to be on view, somewhere between the chateaus and the inevitable pickets...
PORTABLE PEOPLE by Paul West (British American; $10.95, paperback). The prolific novelist turns his fertile imagination to what he calls "fictional- biography," short, lyrical and sometimes surreal sketches of famous writers, musicians, politicians, athletes, heroes and villains, ranging from John Keats and Chris Evert to Joseph Goebbels and Jack the Ripper. A tour de force that is guaranteed to leave you sockless...
...title for a record ninth time. If she does so, or if she loses in a fashion that convinces her that another victory is an impossible dream, many of her peers expect her to retire. Perhaps she will linger a season or so to surpass her longtime rival Chris Evert's record total victories in matches (1,309) and tournaments (157). But in 1985, after winning Wimbledon over Evert, Navratilova said, "Whenever she retires, I'm sure I'll follow shortly." After a gallant semifinal loss at Wimbledon last year to Graf, Evert now sits in the NBC broadcast booth...
When Capriati was three, her father Stefano, a self-taught tennis pro who emigrated from Milan, put a racquet into her hands; by the time she was four, she was fending off barrages from a ball machine and was delivered into the tutelage of Jimmy Evert, whose most famous coaching product was his daughter Christine Marie. Last year Capriati won the 18-and-under titles at the French and U.S. Opens and made the junior quarterfinals at Wimbledon...