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Wimbledon's determination not to assign a top women's seed before the world's toniest tennis tournament represented an equal kindness to Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd. That meant, for nearly a fortnight, neither was No. 2, and the peace was wonderful. "Once you've been No. 1," as Evert Lloyd says with a cool stare (she could stare for a living), "you can never be satisfied with less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire Over Ice, in Three Sets | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...Maybe he will grow into a greater mantle. Of all the athletes in their prime, Martina Navratilova should have the nearest understanding of where Gretzky and Bird are situated. For the past three years, her grip on women's tennis has made Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with an underrated delicateness. The Czech defector does not insist that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Gretzky: To Be Simply the Best | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

FORTUNE 500 companies on merchandising strategies and manages the business affairs of athletes and other celebrities. Some of McCormack's clients: Tennis Stars Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd, Ski Champ Jean-Claude Killy, baseball's Jim Rice, and Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace. Officials of the Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis tournaments rely on McCormack to negotiate for them with television networks, and his firm has already been hired as a television consultant by the organizing committees of the 1988 Calgary and Seoul Olympics. When Pope John Paul II visited Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Street Smarts | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

SEPARATED. Chris Evert Lloyd, 29, tennis champion (three times at Wimbledon, six at the U.S. Open); and John Lloyd, 29, one-time member of Britain's Davis Cup team; after nearly five years of marriage, no children. Explained Chris: "We need time to be by ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 6, 1984 | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Fusco foiled Evans' aggressive playing with a steady Chris Evert-Lloyd style back-court game, returning everything Evans could dish...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Brown Freshman Terminates Evans' Perfect Season, 7-5, 6-4 | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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