Chris Evert: Fort Lauderdale’s Tennis Legend Who Never Left Home
Chris Evert won 18 Grand Slams and spent 260 weeks as the world’s top player, but she never left the South Florida community where her father taught her to play.
Chris Evert won 18 Grand Slams and spent 260 weeks as the world’s top player, but she never left the South Florida community where her father taught her to play.
She was the first Florida Seminole to finish high school, spent forty years as a traveling nurse across three reservations, co-founded the tribe’s newspaper, and in 1967 was elected its chairwoman.