vert's peers have dwelt at such length on her powers of concentration and so little on her strokes that one could be forgiven for having this impression: while everyone else is playing tennis, Evert takes an unfair advantage by resorting to another game, some sort of mystical hybrid made up of one part backhand to nine parts concentration. Photograph by Manny Millan Text by Ron Fimrite In 1976, Chris Evert became the first woman to appear by herself on the cover of the Sportsman of the Year issue. Only 21, she had already won two Wimbledons, two U.S. Opens, two French Opens, two Italian Opens, three Virginia Slims and 101 consecutive matches on clay. Before her retirement in 1989, Evert amassed a career record of 1,304 victories and 146 losses. In 1995 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Evert, the 43-year-old mother of three children, lives in Florida.
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