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...when the two warring women's groups declared a truce that allowed players from both circuits to compete against one another in major tournaments. Evert's first test came at the French Open in June when she advanced to the finals against Margaret Court, won the first set 7-6, took a commanding 5-3 lead in the second-and then fell apart. Suffering from a bad case of overconfidence, she blew the second set 7-6 and lost the third 6-4. Then in quick and dispiriting succession, she lost to Australia's Evonne Goolagong...
...Evert staged a brief comeback at Wimbledon by defeating Court but then got soundly spanked in the finals by Billie Jean King...
...Evert does not have to wait long for another big test. It starts next week when the U.S. Open begins at Forest Hills, where she made her first big splash two years ago. Whatever happens at Forest Hills, Evert's future is unquestionably bullish. Chrissie the pro is far more accomplished than Chrissie the amateur, and has time to overcome her remaining flaws: a reluctance to rush the net aggressively, a volley that too often fails and a serve that too seldom overpowers. Over the past two years, she has shot up 3/2 in. and added...
...Evert's concentration borders on the mesmeric. Scrunching her nose and squinting her hazel eyes, she assumes a trancelike expression that rarely bespeaks the slightest emotion. Rivals have described her intensity as "almost eerie," her slit-eyed squint as "snake-like." Julie Heldman claims that Evert's poise is so great that she does not seem to sweat, much less disturb a strand of her honey brown hair. "I have never seen Chris look disheveled," says Julie, "or even pleasantly rumpled...
...flashed her lace-trimmed panties at Wimbledon more than two decades ago. Teeny lob-bers everywhere are mirroring the "Chrissie look": gold loop earrings, modishly cut tennis frocks, long hair parted in the middle and tied back with colored yarn, and-look Ma!-a two-handed backhand. The Chris Evert line of Puritan Tennis outfits, frilly, form-fitting tennis togs splashed with pastels, makes the squarish whites of old look like straitjackets. Now, with the figure to complement the filigree, she has erased forever the "little Chrissie" sobriquet. Still, she is unsatisfied: "I wish some writer would get around...