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John Lloyd and Evert in Fort Lauderdale, circa 1978. In 1979, Evert married British tennis player John Lloyd and changed her name to Chris Evert Lloyd. After her affair with British singer and actor Adam Faith, the couple separated, [42] [43] [44] but reconciled and chronicled their marriage in a biography Lloyd On Lloyd co-authored by Carol ...
Chris Evert Lloyd defeated Hana Mandlíková in the final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1981 Wimbledon Championships. It was her third Wimbledon singles title and her twelfth major singles title, surpassing Margaret Court's Open Era record.
Top-seed Chris Evert-Lloyd won the title beating third-seed Evonne Goolagong Cawley in the final for a first-prize of $20,000. [1] It was Evert-Lloyd's fifth title at the U.S. Clay Courts and followed an absence of three years during which World Team Tennis commitments clashed with the event.
Chris Evert won eighteen grand slam singles tournaments in her career (two Australian Opens, seven French Opens, three Wimbledon Championships, and six US Opens), and was runner-up in sixteen other finals (giving her 34 final appearances). Evert competed in 56 Grand Slam singles tournaments, reaching the semifinals or better in 52 of them.
Two-time defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert Lloyd in the final, 7–6 (7–5), 6–2 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1984 Wimbledon Championships. [1] It was her fifth Wimbledon singles title and tenth major singles title overall.
The 1984 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] It was the 98th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 25 June to 8 July 1984.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley defeated Chris Evert Lloyd in the final, 6–1, 7–6 (7–4) to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships. [1] It was her seventh and last major singles title, and Goolagong Cawley became the first (and still only) mother to win the Wimbledon singles title since World War I.
Defending champion Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert-Lloyd in a rematch of the previous year's final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1979 Wimbledon Championships. [1] It was her second Wimbledon singles title and second major singles title overall.