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Evert, Christine Marie, 1954-, American tennis player, b. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Noted for her poise on the court, her strong, two-handed backhand, and her nearly flawless baseline game, she won at least one Grand Slam title every year from 1974 to 1986. She won seven French Open titles (1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986), six U.S. Open titles (1975-77, 1978, 1980, 1982), three Wimbledon titles (1974, 1976, 1981), and two Australian Open titles (1982, 1984).
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Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, 1816-78, American editor and biographer, b. New York City, grad. Columbia, 1835. From 1840 to 1842 he edited Arturus, a Journal of Books and Opinion, and from 1848 to 1853, with his brother George Long Duyckinck (1823-63), he owned and edited the Literary World, the best literary weekly of the period. With his brother he also edited and prepared much of the copy for the Cyclopedia of American Literature (2 vol., 1855), which he revised and enlarged in 1866 and which was a standard work in its time.
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formerly Chris Evert Lloyd
(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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