![]() It sounds as if you've created a normal life. "So it's all about the kids and play dates and sports after school." Now I'm going to pick up my 10-year-old because they get out about half an hour apart. So the academy stimulates me and I'm there in the mornings, and then at 3 o'clock, sure enough, like, I'm making two trips in the car. "And not to put them down or anything, but I like to go and I like to be stimulated. I mean, some of these women just are dripping in jewels, with the lunches and the hairdos, and they've never earned a cent in their lives. "I'm not the typical Boca woman who likes to have lunches and have her nails done. I feel (I'm) active physically and in my mind. And I think that the important thing is staying active. ![]() "That's when your bones are a little different and you're not as fast as you used to be you don't have the energy level you used to have. And at 50, it's like, 'Aahhh, the most important thing is to be healthy,' because that's when things start kicking in. I think when you're in your 20s and 30s, you're very concerned about how you look. She laughed - the first of many during our conversation - then continued: "You know what? Health takes over looks." What are the things most important to you now in this phase of life? Twenty years later, Evert returned my call on her cell phone: She was picking up her boys from school.Īnd I discovered that she hadn't changed one bit. What I remember most is not that this would become the last singles title of Evert's Hall of Fame career it was her refreshing candor, insightfulness and self-effacing manner during our interview. She was in Largo to play in the now defunct Eckerd Open, at the Bardmoor Country Club I first met Evert in 1987, interviewing her for a Sports Illustrated profile in the wake of a knee injury that had sidelined her for five months - and her breakup with first husband Lloyd. ![]() She feels more fulfilled than ever by motherhood - she and Mill have three young sons - by running the Chris Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton and the Chris Evert Tennis/Raymond James Pro Celebrity Tennis Classic Nov. Today, at 52, Evert is not just older but wiser. Now reports have her romantically linked to pro golfer Greg Norman. She is an American icon, a South Florida native who helped infuse women's tennis with personality, style and some of the game's greatest moments in the 1970s and '80s.īut she also became a pop culture presence for decades, whether pitching products on TV or making headlines for the ups and downs in her love life: her engagement to Jimmy Connors, her marriage in 1979 to British tennis star John Lloyd, and their divorce in 1987, then her well-publicized marriage to Olympic skier Andy Mill in 1988, and less than a year ago, another painful divorce. Though she teaches tennis and organizes a signature tournament for charity, Chris Evert has shifted her focus to her three sons.įormer champion Chris Evert plays in her annual Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic, which she spends a lot of her time organizing. "I think I have a very special relation with the St. In 1971, teenaged "Chrissie" Evert faced Billie Jean King in St. ![]() "Each decade brings special gifts,'' she says. The 52-year-old tennis icon finds that maturing is about acceptance, learning and health. i think she and andy are parents good enough to try to give their kids all the love in this situation. i think Chris really want things with Andy to work (they were in therapy).but they didn't. A lot has been said and wrote about this issue.the truth is "WHO KNOWS?". ![]()
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