Evert, Chris(tine Marie)

(born Dec. 21, 1954, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., U.S.) U.S. tennis player. She became in 1971 the youngest player to reach the semifinals of the U.S. championship. She won the U.S. Open women's singles six times (1975–78, 1980, 1982) and repeatedly won the Wimbledon singles (1974, 1976, 1981), the French Open singles (1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986), and the Australian Open singles (1982, 1984), for a total of 18 grand-slam h1s. She retired in 1989.

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