Word: everts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's tennis, the halter number Venus Williams wore at the U.S. Open dispelled it. The young ladies of tennis have been replaced by brassy girls with wicked strokes. The Williams sisters have created a media frenzy that hasn't been seen in American tennis since...well, since Chris Evert. Can the hair-beaded powerhouse stand up to the hair-ribboned champ...
...CHRIS EVERT VENUS WILLIAMS...
BILLIE JEAN KING There were certainly better female athletes. In tennis alone, Martina Navratilova was her clear superior, and even at her peak she had a pretty hard time with Chris Evert and Margaret Court. Sheryl Swoopes is more dazzling, and Mia Hamm combines finesse and power in what may be a palimpsest for the New Athletic Woman. But before any of them, there was Billie Jean Moffitt King, 20 times a champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting...
...LINDSAY DAVENPORT, 22, her first Grand Slam title in her first Grand Slam final; at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; in New York City. Davenport is the first American-born player to win the U.S. competition since Chris Evert...
There have always been compelling rivalries in women's tennis: Billie Jean King and Margaret Court; Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert; Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. And young, talented players, overwhelmed by the pressures of success, have often alienated their tour mates. But in the past, there was room for just two great rivals at a time. "Now," says Butch Buchholz, chairman of the Lipton and Pilot Pen tournaments, "we have a handful of names that sell tickets, which makes the appeal wider and the product just better...