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...usual post-match press conference attended mostly by tennis writers from magazines and newspapers (no, it doesn't bother me to play a lefthander like Diane. Yes, my backhand was working well today. The last time I played Diane? Last month in Chicago. The score? 6-3, 6-1.) Evert had heard all the questions before and had a handy set response to each...
...breaking away from the usual trend of the questions. I pointed out to Evert that if she won the Virginia Slims tournament, she would win more money win more money in a week ($15,000) than most 20-year-olds have earned in their lives. In fact, she had earned over $300,000 last year between winning and endorsements and very few 19-year-olds in the world earn that much money. The question I was leading up to was how did this affect her life? Did she buy something that she had always wanted, did she invest...
...money has influenced me at all." Now it was my turn to be surprised. "You haven't done anything at all with any of your money?" I asked incredulously. "I live at home with my family and I don't need a car because I won one, you know," Evert said. "I just put it in the bank...
...ever go out and splurge, buy an ice cream sundae or something after you win?" another reporter from a tennis magazine asked. "I like to buy clothes like any other girl does," Evert said and the reporter sank back in his chair...
...conference broke up then since Evert had "another day of tennis" on Wednesday and after you have played as much tennis as Chris Evert has, you would think of it that way also. Tomorrow meant, in the opening rounds anyway, a different pretty tennis outfit, another layer of makeup and maybe different colored fingernails, and possibly a cute curl on the right side just like today. One gets the feeling that it is all part of an act, and that she is performing more for the audience than to go out and win, especially since the first few opponents...