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Profile: When Chrissie Evert flew into Boston last week for the Virginia-Slims-sponsored U.S.Women's Indoor Championships--with her mother, a half dozen tennis dresses and many flavors of make-up--she was expected to win the tourney. And the way she played during the first few days of the event, it looked as if she would...
Background: Chris Evert was the top women's tennis player in 1974 as she won an astonishing 71 of 78 tournament matches and took 16 of the 23 tourneys that she entered. Her string of victories included Wimbledon, the French and Italian Opens...
...machine-like precision might sometimes be boring to watch (the Italians call Evert "La Machinnetta"--the machine), but Chrissie used her skills to win over $100,000 on the international tour--not bad money for a 19-year...
...tournament, one of Boston's most unusual sporting events, featured the top players in women's tennis--Chris Evert Billie Jean King (who won the doubles), Margaret Court, and Virginia Wade...
Tennis Champs Jimmy Connors, 22, and Chris Evert, 19, may have played their last love match. Last week the fiancées were in different parts of the U.S., he in California, she in Texas, and their much celebrated wedding-to-be was postponed. Chris's father said: "They might get married in December or next year or a year from now." But the romance seems to have shaken Chrissie's game. After winning 56 straight matches, she has been beaten two times running by Australian Star Evonne Goolagong and rumors persist that Jimmy's mother, Gloria...