Sentences with phrase «evert match»
Goolagong and King had gotten a standing ovation at the end of their match, but the Goolagong - Evert match Saturday night before 7,049 might well have been better, even though Evonne won in straight sets.
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After Goolagong took the first 6 - 3, Evert jumped off to a 2 - 0 lead in the second, fell behind and twice had to break Goolagong's serve to stay in the match.
In her soon - to - be-released autobiography, Chrissie, Evert Lloyd tells of a doubles match she and Martina lost to Casals and Frankie Durr in 1976.
Regardless of their inner turmoil under competitive stress, Evert Lloyd and Austin rarely display any emotion on court, and they almost never give away a match.
She relishes the fact that she is the youngest ever to play at Wimbledon, and she was excited about snapping Evert - Lloyd's 125 - match clay - court winning streak this summer.
Evert proceeded to win 10 straight points and the match 6 - 2, 7 - 5.
In the middle of the match, Martina — who never wins the crowd in her adopted country — couldn't help but turn to Evert Lloyd in the stands and say, «I want to play you here.»
On Thursday night, after she beat Seles in a three - set match that brought to mind the late - career meetings of Navratilova and Evert, Graf leaned back in her courtside chair and laughed while the crowd shared her joy.
On one, Evert had written that Navratilova's weakness was a tendency to get tight in close matches.
I grew up in the age of Martina Navratilova vs Chris Evert and John McEnroe vs Everyone, though, and that match was a common cultural reference point.