Chris Evert is considered to be one of the mostfamous and strong tennis players in the world. Her brilliant way of the champion, she began very young. In 2014, the athlete turned 60 years old, and although her way in big sports ended long ago, she is still remembered and loved.
The real name of the famous sportswoman is ChristinaMaria Evert - was cut to Chris. The very first success came to her in the late 60's, and a year later Chris made the whole world of big sports talk about her in full voice.
About Evert Chris was mentioned in the book "The Greatestmatches of the twentieth century "as one of the strongest female athletes after Steffi Graf, her style of play was considered by all the experts to be rather unusual: on the court she was always characterized by icy equanimity, as if she completely abandoned everything except the game, and although many considered Chris's tranquility , this excerpt helped her to become a star.
Chris Evert was born on December 21 in 1954 ina small town of Florida. From a very early age, the child had a craving for sport and extraordinary abilities. It was during this same period, thanks to her father Jim Evers, that she developed such an unusual style of play. As Christina grew up in a sports family, and her father was a professional coach, the questions about training were very simple.
As the athlete herself remembers, in her childhood she was very shy, and only the sport helped her to find inner balance and understand what she wants in life.
Tennis has always been not so much a profession aspassion Chris Evert. She lived and breathed it. Another passion tennis player was helping children. She dreamed that someday she would open her charitable organization and devote herself to helping babies who found themselves in a difficult situation.
In 1988, Chris gave the victory to Steffi Graf, and in 1989 completed her career.
Now Evert together with his brother John teaches at the Tennis Academy, which they opened in the state of Florida. Chris is considered one of the most authoritative trainers.
Tennis player Evert Chris stepped on the path of a largesport at the age of five. In 1970, she won the tournament among her peers, after which she was invited to play in North Carolina in another tournament. In it, she brilliantly defeated her rival in the first round, and in the semifinals she emerged victorious in a duel with Margaret Smith, the famous Australian tennis player.
These victories allowed Chris to take part in the CupFederation, she became the youngest participant. In the US Championship, a young athlete played at 16 years of age. Then she reached the final in the championship of France, and a year later became its winner.
For the next five years, Chris was the firstthe racket of the world among women. In 1975, she won the first time in the US Championship, winning against Evonne Gulagang. The next victory over her Chris won a year later at the French Championships. This championship athlete won seven times.
The first great love of the famous tennis playerbecame Jimmy Connors. Chris Evert, whose personal life was interested in everyone, immediately attracted even more attention to herself. Although nothing unusual in this relationship was not, because young people were engaged in one thing, and it is only natural that relations were established between them. Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors met for two years, got engaged, but the wedding, which was planned for 1974, never happened: they parted.
Over the next few years, Chrismet with different men, and in 1979 married John Lloyd, tennis player, and became Chris Evert Lloyd. Eight years later, they divorced, and a year later, she married with a well-known mountain skier Andy Mill. In this marriage they had three sons - Alexander James, Nicholas Joseph and Colton Jack. In 2006, the couple divorced, and in 2007 Chris became engaged to Greg Norman, a famous golfer. This marriage was the shortest. It ended in 2009, the couple divorced. later Chris claimed that she had more business relations with Greg.
Christine Maria Evert - the first athlete,which in its entire life has won more than a thousand matches. Compared with this figure, the number of its lesions is negligible. In the Grand Slam tournament, she never went off the race in the first rounds, out of fifty performances in almost all it reached the semi-finals.
Over the years, Evert Chris has won thirty-fourfinals in the Grand Slam tournament, and for twelve years he won the title every year. It is estimated that in total she won in 154 tournaments of BTA in singles and in 8 in doubles. In this tournament she took first place for 260 weeks.
For six years Evert nobody could win inmatches on the ground: she won in 125 games in a row. From 1983 to 1991 she was president of BTA, and since 1995 is an honorary member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Chris Evert, whose biography and sporting achievements are well known to everyone, decided to learn new heights. In the spring of 2015, the big tennis star became the presenter of the new show on the Eurosport channel.
Chris launched a project called "Tenniswith Evert, "which ran from May 29 to June 7. The program was co-hosted by Barbara Shet, another famous tennis player, from the Roland Garros court, where the next tournament was due to end." As Evert Chris admitted, this tournament very dear to her, and she will be happy to share her competent opinion about this game with the viewers.
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