Chris Evert Defeats Margaret Court at the Virginia Slims of Hollywood to Win Championship (1/17/77)

The Virginia Slims of Hollywood is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated women's tennis tournament played from 1977 to 1979. It was held in Hollywood, Florida in the United States and played on indoor carpet courts.

Past finals

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score

1977 United States Chris Evert Australia Margaret Court 6–3, 6–4

1978 Australia Evonne Goolagong Cawley Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 6–3

1979 South Africa Greer Stevens Australia Dianne Fromholtz 6–4, 2–6, 6–4

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score

1977 Czechoslovakia Martina Navratilova
Netherlands Betty Stöve United States Rosemary Casals
United States Chris Evert 6–4, 3–6, 6–4

1978 United States Rosemary Casals
Australia Wendy Turnbull France Françoise Dürr
United Kingdom Virginia Wade 6–2, 6–4

1979 United States Tracy Austin
Netherlands Betty Stöve United States Rosemary Casals
Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–2, 2–6, 6–2

Christine Marie Evert (/ˈɛvərt/; 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 six US Open titles (tied with Serena Williams). Evert was ranked world No. 1 for 260 weeks, and was the year-end world No. 1 singles player seven times (1974–78, 1980, 1981).[3] Alongside Martina Navratilova, her greatest rival, Evert dominated women's tennis for much of the 1970s and 1980s.

Evert contested 34 major singles finals, a record for women's tennis.[4] In singles, Evert reached the semifinals or better in 52 of the 56 majors she played, including at 34 consecutive majors entered from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open.[5] She never lost in the first or second round of a major, and lost in the third round only twice. Evert holds the record of most consecutive years (13) of winning at least one major title.[6] Evert's career winning percentage in singles matches of 89.97% (1309–146) is the second highest in the Open Era, for men or women.[7][8][9] On clay courts, Evert's career winning percentage in singles matches of 94.55% (382–22) remains a WTA Tour record. She also won three major doubles titles, two partnering Navratilova and one partnering Olga Morozova.

Evert served as president of the Women's Tennis Association for eleven years, 1975–76 and 1983–91. She was awarded the Philippe Chatrier award and inducted into the Hall of Fame. In later life, Evert was a coach and is now an analyst for ESPN, and has a line of tennis and active apparel.

Early life and family
Evert was born in 1954 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Colette (née Thompson) and Jimmy Evert,[10] and raised in a committed Catholic household.[11] She is a 1973 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale.[citation needed]

Evert's father was a professional tennis coach, and tennis was a way of life in his family. Chris and her sister Jeanne became professional tennis players; their brother John played tennis on scholarship at the University of Alabama and later at Vanderbilt University, and brother Drew had a tennis scholarship to Auburn University. Youngest sister Clare played scholarship tennis at Southern Methodist University. Chris, John, Jeanne, and Clare, all won titles at the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl in Florida.