Word: everts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometime coach named Billie Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator Bud Collins, "the best American player since Billie Jean." That accolade puts her above the likes of Pam Shriver, Tracy Austin and Capriati's friend and role model, Chris Evert, the sport's winningest player of all time...
...either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing about as well as ever...