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Chris Evert Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. Evert won 18 major singles titles, including a record seven French Open titles and a joint-record s ...
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Significant finals


Grand Slam finals


Singles: 34 finals (18 titles, 16 runners-up)

Evert played in a total of 56 grand slams in her career. From her debut as a 16-year-old at the 1971 US Open, she reached the semifinals or better in her first 34 grand slam events. Overall, she reached 54 quarterfinals, 52 semifinals, and 34 finals. Her only 2 quarterfinal losses were both at the US Open, in 1987 to Lori McNeil and in 1989, when the US Open served as her farewell from tournament play, to Zina Garrison. She lost before the quarterfinals 2 times, both in the third round, at the 1983 Wimbledon where she lost to Kathy Jordan and at the
1988 French Open The 1988 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 23 May until 5 June. It was the 92nd staging of the French Open, and the second Grand ...
where she lost to
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former world No. 1 tennis player. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: four in singles, six in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She also won four Oly ...
. Her 299 grand slam singles match wins is 3rd best in the Open Era.


Doubles: 4 finals (3 titles, 1 runner-up)


Mixed doubles: 1 final (1 runner-up)


Year-end championships finals


Singles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runners-up)


Grand Slam singles tournament timeline

Notes: *The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December. * Evert retired in September 1989 after playing in the U.S Open, at which time she was ranked world No.4.


WTA singles finals


Titles: (157)


Runner-ups: (73)


WTA Tour career earnings


Record against other top players

Evert's win–loss record against certain players who have been ranked World No. 10 or higher is as follows: ''Players who have been ranked World No. 1 are in boldface.'' *
Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade (born 10 July 1945) is a British former professional tennis player. She won three Major tennis singles championships and four major doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all ...
40–6 */ Martina Navratilova 37–43 *
Evonne Goolagong Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. At the age of 19, she won the French Open singl ...
26–13 *
Virginia Ruzici Virginia Ruzici (born 31 January 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship. Career Ruzici became a professional tennis player in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her po ...
24–0 *
Sue Barker Sue or SUE may refer to: Music * Sue Records, an American record label * ''Sue'' (album), an album by Frazier Chorus * " Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)", a song by David Bowie Places * Sue Islet (Queensland), one of the Torres Straits isla ...
23–1 *
Betty Stöve Betty Flippina Stöve (born 24 June 1945) is a Dutch former professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final, the ladies' doubles final and the mixed doubles final during the same year at Wimbledon in 19 ...
22–0 *
Rosemary Casals Rosemary "Rosie" Casals (born September 16, 1948) is an American former professional tennis player. Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned mor ...
22–1 *
Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, , (born 26 November 1952) is a retired tennis player from Australia. During her career, she won nine Grand Slam titles, four of them in women's doubles and five of them in mixed doubles. She also was a three-time Grand Slam runn ...
21–1 */
Hana Mandlíková Hana Mandlíková (born 19 February 1962) is a former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia who later obtained Australian citizenship. During her career she won four Grand Slam singles titles - the 1980 Australian Open, 1981 French O ...
21–7 *
Pam Shriver Pamela Howard Shriver (born July 4, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis broadcaster and pundit. During the 1980s and 1990s, Shriver won 133 titles, including 21 singles titles, 111 women's doubles titles, an ...
19–3 *
Billie Jean King Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 major titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. King was a member of the victorious United State ...
19–7 *
Kerry Reid Kerry Melville Reid (née Melville; born 7 August 1947) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. During her 17-year career, Reid won one Grand Slam singles title and 26 other singles titles and was the runner-up in 40 singles tou ...
18–2 */
Manuela Maleeva Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began re ...
17–2 */
Helena Suková Helena Suková () (born 23 February 1965) is a Czech former professional tennis player. During her career, she won 14 major doubles titles, nine in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. She is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in do ...
17–2 *
Andrea Jaeger Andrea Jaeger ( ; born June 4, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. A world No. 2, Jaeger's brief but highly successful tennis career ended prematurely due to major shoulder injuries. Jaeger started her professional tennis career ...
17–3 * Sylvia Hanika 16–1 * Dianne Fromholtz 16–3 * Olga Morozova 15–0 *
Bettina Bunge Bettina Bunge (born 13 June 1963) is a retired German tennis player. Born in Adliswil, Switzerland, she was part of a large group of successful German players in the 1980s, which also included Steffi Graf, Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, Sylvia Hanika, a ...
14–0 *
Mima Jaušovec Mima Jaušovec (; born 20 July 1956) is a retired Yugoslavian tennis player. She won the 1977 French Open singles championship. Early life Jaušovec was born in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia, when it was part of Yugoslavia. Career As a gir ...
14–0 *
Françoise Dürr Françoise Dürr (born 25 December 1942; sometimes referred to by English writers as Frankie Durr) is a retired French tennis player. She won 50 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles. According to Lance Tingay, Bud Collins, and the Wom ...
13–0 *
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (''née'' Kohde; born 11 December 1963) is a former German tennis player and member of the Die Linke. During her tennis career, she won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won eight singles titles and a total o ...
13–0 *
Bonnie Gadusek Bonnie Gadusek (born September 11, 1963) is a retired American professional tennis player. Career Gadusek started a career in gymnastics, training for the 1980 Olympics, but fell from uneven parallel bars and landed on her neck, dislocating two ...
12–0 * Kathy Jordan 12–3 *
Carling Bassett-Seguso Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso (born 9 October 1967) is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John Bassett and politician and brewery ex ...
9–0 *
Jo Durie Joanna Mary Durie (born 27 July 1960) is a former world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates. Born in Bri ...
9–0 * Kathy Rinaldi 9–0 *
Zina Garrison Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Garrison was the runner-up in singles at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, a three-time major mixed doubles champion, and an Olympic gold and bronze m ...
9–2 *
Margaret Court Margaret Court ('' née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian retired former world No. 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 24 m ...
9–4 *
Tracy Austin Tracy Ann Austin Holt (born December 12, 1962) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. She won three Grand Slam titles: the women's singles titles at the 1979 and 1981 US Opens, and the mixed doubles title at the 1980 Wimbledon ...
8–9 *
Barbara Potter Barbara Potter (born October 22, 1961) is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the WTA Tour between 1978 and 1989, winning six singles titles and 19 doubles titles. Her highest singles ranking was No. 7 in ...
8–0 * Mary Joe Fernández 7–0 *
Kathy Horvath Erica Kathleen "Kathy" Horvath (born August 25, 1965) is an American former professional tennis player. She is best known for upsetting world No. 1 Martina Navratilova in the fourth round of the 1983 French Open, delivering her only defeat for t ...
7–0 * Lisa Bonder 7–1 *
Stephanie Rehe Stephanie Rehe (born November 5, 1969) is a retired American tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1985 and 1993, won five singles titles and two doubles titles, and reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 10, in March 1989. Ca ...
6–0 *
Greer Stevens Greer Stevens (born 15 February 1957) is a retired professional tennis player from South Africa. Career Stevens in 1980 reached a career high singles ranking of world No. 7 and the Wimbledon quarterfinals in both singles and doubles]. With Bo ...
6–1 *
Gabriela Sabatini Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine-Italian former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 ...
6–3 *
Nancy Richey Nancy Richey (born August 23, 1942) is an American former tennis player. Richey won two major singles titles (the 1967 Australian Championships and 1968 French Open) and four major women's doubles titles (the 1965 US Championships, 1966 Austral ...
6–5 *
Steffi Graf Stefanie Maria Graf ( , ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles, ...
6–8 *
Catarina Lindqvist Anna Catarina Lindqvist Ryan (born 13 June 1963) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. Career Lindqvist turned professional in 1983. She reached a career high rank of World No. 10 in April 1985 and won five singles titles. She rea ...
4–0 *
Kathy May Kathy May Fritz (born June 18, 1956) is an American former professional tennis player. She reached three Grand Slam quarterfinals, once at the US Open in 1978 and twice at the French Open in 1977 and 1978. She won seven WTA singles titles durin ...
4–0 */
Jana Novotná Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbl ...
3–0 *
Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberly P ...
3–0 * Andrea Temesvári 3–0 *
Lori McNeil Lori McNeil (born December 18, 1963) is an American tennis coach and former top 10 professional tennis player. McNeil was a singles semifinalist at the US Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1994, a women's doubles finalist at the Australian Open in ...
3–2 *
Katerina Maleeva Katerina Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was ...
2–0 *
Conchita Martínez "Conchita" Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in 1994. Martínez also was the runner-up at the 1998 Austral ...
2–0 *
Kristien Shaw Kristien Shaw, also known as Kristien Shaw-Kemmer, Kristien Kemmer or Kristien Shaw-Ziska (born July 25, 1952) is an American former professional tennis player. She had a career-high singles ranking of No. 10 in 1977. Career finals Doubles (1 l ...
2–0 *//
Monica Seles Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...
2–1 * Barbara Paulus 1–1 *
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu Isabel María "Arantxa" Sánchez Vicario (; born 18 December 1971) is a Spanish former world No. 1 tennis player. She won 14 Grand Slam titles: four in singles, six in women's doubles, and four in mixed doubles. She also won four Oly ...
1–1 */
Natasha Zvereva Natallia Marataŭna Zvierava ( be, Наталля Маратаўна Зверава; russian: Наталья Маратовна Зверева, Natalia Maratovna Zvereva; born 16 April 1971) is a former professional tennis player from Belarus. ...
1–1


125-match clay court winning streak from August 1973 to May 1979

* 1973: **US Clay Court Championships, IN. (d. Pat Bostrom 6–0 6–0; Isabel Fernandez 6–3 6–4; Pat Pretorius 6–2 6–1; Linda Tuero 6–0 6–0; Veronica Burton 6–4 6–3 in final); **Columbus, GA. (d. Janet Haas 6–1 6–0; Francoise Durr 6–0 6–2; Laurie Fleming 6–4 6–0; Rosie Casals 6–3 7–6; won by default over Margaret Court – defaults not counted as matches in streak); **Virginia Slims Championships, Boca Raton, FL. (d. Kristien Kemmer-Shaw 6–2 6–3; Karen Krantzcke 6–0 6–0; Julie Heldman 6–2 6–4; Kerry Melville 6–1 6–2; Nancy Richey 6–3 6–3 in final) * 1974: **Ft. Lauderdale, FL. (d. Laurie Fleming 6–1 6–2; Wendy Overton 6–0 6–3; Betty Stove 6–3 6–4; Rose Casals 6–0 6–1; won by default over Kerry Melville); **Sarasota, FL. (d.
Carrie Meyer Carolyn Meyer Richardson (born August 22, 1955) is an American former professional tennis player. Biography From Indianapolis, Meyer was the Indiana state singles champion in 1971 at the age of 16. Before turning professional, she played tennis a ...
6–1 6–2; Sue Stap 6–1 6–1; Betty Stove 6–0 6–1; Olga Morozova 6–2 6–0; Evonne Goolagong 6–4 6–0 in final); **St. Petersburg, FL. (d. Pat Bostrom 6–0 6–1; Glynis Coles 6–1 6–3; Karen Krantzcke 6–7 6–0 6–0; Helga Masthoff 6–1 6–1; Kerry Melville 6–0 6–1 in final); **Family Circle Cup, SC. (d. Kerry Harris 6–1 6–2; Wendy Overton def.; Betty Stove 6–2 6–3; Rosie Casals 6–1 6–0; Kerry Melville 6–1 6–3 in final); **Italian Open, Rome (d. Lita Sugiarto 7–5 6–2; Marie Neumannova 4–6 6–1 6–4; Kazuko Sawamatsu 6–1 6–1; Olga Morozova 6–1 1–6 6–0; Martina Navratilova 6–3 6–3 in final); **French Open, Paris (d. Regina Marsikova 6–1 6–4; Virginia Ruzici 6–2 6–3;
Vicky Baldovinos María-Victoria Baldovinos-Cibeira (born 8 February 1953) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. Baldovinos, a native of Barcelona, was ranked as high as number two in Spain. She reached the round of 16 at the 1974 French Open and appear ...
6–2 6–2; Julie Heldman 6–0 7–5; Helga Masthoff 7–5 6–4; Olga Morozova 6–1 6–2 in final); **US Clay Court Championships, IN. (d.
Helle Sparre Helle Sparre (born 30 June 1956) is a former professional tennis player from Denmark. She competed during her career under her married name Helle Sparre-Viragh. Biography Born in Copenhagen, Sparre featured in 13 Federation Cup ties for Denmark i ...
6–0 6–0; Roberta Stark 6–2 6–2; Virginia Ruzici 6–0 6–1; Carrie Meyer 6–1 6–2; Gail Chanfreau 6–0 6–0 in final); **Canadian Open, Toronto (d. Maria Nasuelli 6–1 6–2; Gail Chanfreau 6–0 6–2; Laurie Tenney 6–0 6–0; Kazuko Sawamatsu 6–0 6–1; Julie Heldman 6–0 6–3 in final) *1975: **
Family Circle Cup The Credit One Charleston Open, formerly known as the Volvo Car Open and the Family Circle Cup, is a WTA Tour-affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. It is the oldest professional all-women's tournament in ...
, FL. (d. Carrie Meyer 6–0 6–0; Rosie Casals 6–1 6–0; Francoise Durr 6–2 6–0; Evonne Goolagong 6–1 6–1; Martina Navratilova 7–5 6–4 in final); **
Italian Open Italian Open may refer to: *Italian Open (tennis), a Masters 1000 level tennis tournament played in Rome each year. *Italian Open (golf) The DS Automobiles Italian Open ( it, Open d'Italia) is the men's national open golf championship of Italy. It ...
, Rome (d. Rosalba Vido 6–0 6–2; Sue Barker 6–1 6–3; Fiorella Bonicelli 6–1 6–3; Mima Jausovec 6–2 6–0; Martina Navratilova 6–1 6–0 in final); **French Open, Paris (d. Carmen Perea 6–2 6–2; Mima Jausovec 6–2 6–3; Renata Tomanova 6–3 6–2; Kazuko Sawamatsu 6–2 6–2; Olga Morozova 6–4 6–0; Martina Navratilova 2–6 6–2 6–1 in final); **US Clay Court Championships, IN. (d.
Paulina Peisachov Paulina Peled (born 20 April 1950) is an Israeli former professional tennis player. She was known as Paulina Peisachov before marriage. Biography Born in Lithuania, Peled moved to Israel at the age of 16. She competed at the 1969 Maccabiah Game ...
6–0 6–2; Glynis Coles 6–2 6–0; Donna Ganz 6–1 6–2; Nancy Richey 6–7 7–5 4–2 ret. Evert recovered from 7–6 5–0 40–15 down to win this match and keep streak alive at 73 matches; Dianne Fromholtz 6–3 6–4 in final); **Rye, NY. (d. Gail Chanfreau 6–2 6–1; Mima Jausovec def.; Mona Schallau 6–0 6–4; Margaret Court 6–3 6–3; Virginia Wade 6–0 6–1 in final); **US Open, NY. (d. Lesley Hunt 6–1 6–0; Natasha Chmyreva 6–0 6–3; Wendy Overton 6–0 6–1; Kerry Melville 6–2 6–1; Martina Navratilova 6–4 6–4; Evonne Goolagong 5–7 6–4 6–2 in final); **Orlando, FL. (d. Janet Newberry 6–1 6–2; Isabel Fernandez 6–1 6–4; Linky Boshoff 6–2 6–2; Rosie Casals 6–0 6–2; Martina Navratilova def. in final); **World Invitational, SC. (d. Rosie Casals 6–0 6–1; Evonne Goolagong 6–1 6–1 in final) *1976: **
Family Circle Cup The Credit One Charleston Open, formerly known as the Volvo Car Open and the Family Circle Cup, is a WTA Tour-affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. It is the oldest professional all-women's tournament in ...
, FL. (d. Wendy Turnbull 6–2 6–1; Torry Ann Fretz 6–0 6–0; Betty Stove 6–4 6–4; Mary Struthers 6–0 6–0; Kerry Melville-Reid 6–2 6–2 in final); **US Open, NY. (d. Greer Stevens 6–1 6–0; Glynis Coles 6–0 6–0; Sue Barker 6–1 6–0; Natasha Chmyreva 6–1 6–2; Mima Jausovec 6–3 6–1; Evonne Goolagong 6–3 6–0 in final) *1977: **
Family Circle Cup The Credit One Charleston Open, formerly known as the Volvo Car Open and the Family Circle Cup, is a WTA Tour-affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. It is the oldest professional all-women's tournament in ...
, SC. (d. Bunny Bruning 6–0 6–3; Wendy Turnbull 6–1 6–0; Kath May 6–0 6–1; Mima Jausovec 6–3 6–3; Billie Jean King 6–0 6–1 in final); **US Open, NY. (d. Sharon Walsh 6–1 6–0; Pam Whytcross 6–0 6–0; Helena Anliot 6–2 6–2; Nancy Richey 6–3 6–0; Billie Jean King 6–2 6–0; Betty Stove 6–3 7–5; Wendy Turnbull 7–6 6–2 in final) *1978: **
Family Circle Cup The Credit One Charleston Open, formerly known as the Volvo Car Open and the Family Circle Cup, is a WTA Tour-affiliated professional tennis tournament for women, held every year since 1973. It is the oldest professional all-women's tournament in ...
, SC. (d. Beth Norton 6–1 6–0; Mima Jausovec 6–0 6–1; Renee Richards 6–4 6–3; Tracy Austin 6–3 6–1; Kerry Melville-Reid 6–2 6–0 in final) *1979: **Fed Cup, Madrid (d. Sylvia Hanika 6–4 6–2; Brigitte Simon 6–0 6–0; Olga Morozova 6–4 8–6; Dianne Fromholtz 2–6 6–3 8–6); **
Italian Open Italian Open may refer to: *Italian Open (tennis), a Masters 1000 level tennis tournament played in Rome each year. *Italian Open (golf) The DS Automobiles Italian Open ( it, Open d'Italia) is the men's national open golf championship of Italy. It ...
, Rome (d. JoAnne Russell 6–1 6–2; Janet Newberry 6–2 6–1; Ivanna Madruga 3–6 6–1 6–4; lost semi-final to Tracy Austin 4–6 6–2 6–7(4–7)) Statistics: 71 of the 258 sets (or 28%) were 6–0. Only 8 of the 125 matches were three-setters. From the beginning of this run, Evert did not lose a set on clay in 1973 or between 1976 and 1978. She had runs of 76, 65, and 50 consecutive sets won during the streak.


See also

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Evert–Navratilova rivalry The Evert–Navratilova rivalry was a tennis rivalry in the 1970s and 1980s between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, widely regarded as two of the greatest tennis players of all time. It is considered to be one of the greatest rivalries in t ...


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