Chris Evert Trivia
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50 free Chris Evert trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Chris Evert reached the semifinals or better in 52 of the 56 majors she played, won at least one Grand Slam title for 13 straight years and put together a 125-match winning streak on clay that no man or woman has come close to. She did it from the baseline with a two-handed backhand, a stroke that was unusual when she arrived and standard by the time she left. This quiz covers the numbers (the 18 majors, the seven French Opens, the 260 weeks at No. 1), the rivalry with Martina Navratilova that produced 80 matches and a lasting friendship, and the life around the tennis: the engagement to Jimmy Connors, the racehorse named after her, the marriages to a British player, a downhill skier and a golfer, and the ESPN career that followed. The expert questions go deep into specific finals, streak-enders and the one journalist who refused to rank her No. 1. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play it in one go or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01In 1976 Evert became the first woman in tennis to pass which mark in career prize money?
$1 million
$1 million. In 1972, still a schoolgirl amateur, she had won the tour's season-ending championship but could not accept its first prize.
Q 02Who was Evert's greatest rival?
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova. They met 80 times, starting when the Czech was a 16-year-old newcomer, and stayed close friends through the fiercest rivalry in the women's game.
Q 03On which surface was Evert most dominant?
Clay
Clay. She learned the game on the slow public clay courts of her Florida home town, and the surface suited a patient baseliner who simply outlasted her opponents.
Q 04Evert's manner on court earned her which nickname?
Ice Maiden
Ice Maiden. Her father had coached her never to show emotion on court, so that opponents could not tell what she was thinking, and she kept the poker face all her career.
Q 05Which stroke did Evert help make standard on the women's tour?
Two-handed backhand
Two-handed backhand. As a small girl she was not strong enough to swing the racket with one hand, so she used two, and a generation of young players copied her.
Q 06Evert was engaged in 1974 to which men's tennis star?
Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors. The engaged couple both won the singles title at the same major that summer, but the wedding planned for that autumn was called off.
Q 07Which network did Evert join as a tennis analyst in 2011?
ESPN
She joined ESPN's tennis coverage in 2011; she has also been publisher of Tennis magazine and runs an academy in Boca Raton with her brother John.
Q 08In which Florida city was Evert born?
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale. Her father was the teaching professional at the city's public Holiday Park courts, which is how she came to start lessons at about five.
Q 09Who beat Evert in the 1980 Wimbledon final to become the first mother to win the title since 1914?
Evonne Goolagong
Evonne Goolagong. The Australian had lost the 1976 final to Evert in three sets, then came back four years later, with a young daughter, to win the rematch.
Q 10How many Grand Slam singles titles did Evert win in total?
18
18. The last two came in Paris in 1985 and 1986, both in three-set finals against the great rival who had not long before beaten her 13 times in a row.
Q 11Which golfer did Evert marry in 2008?
Greg Norman
Greg Norman. The Australian was her third husband, but the couple announced their separation after only 15 months and were divorced before the end of 2009.
Q 12Who broke Evert's record of seven French Open singles titles in 2013?
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal. Evert's record had stood for 27 years; she set it in 1986 at the age of 31, beating her greatest rival in the final for the second year running.
Q 13The International Tennis Hall of Fame says opponents might best have described Evert as a "human" what?
Backboard
Backboard. She seldom went for outright winners, simply sending every ball back deep and accurately until the other player made the mistake.
Q 21Which ex-president attended Evert's Hall of Fame induction in 1995?
George Bush
George Bush. As president he had presented her with an award at the White House in 1990, telling her she was "the role model for our nation's young women".
Q 22Which two majors did Evert win in 1974, her first Grand Slam titles?
French Open and Wimbledon
French Open and Wimbledon. She had lost both finals a year earlier; this time she won them back to back, in the middle of what was then the longest winning streak in the women's game.
Q 23Whom did Evert beat in the finals of both the 1980 US Open and Wimbledon in 1981?
Hana Mandlíková
Q 14Who beat Evert in the last Grand Slam match of her career, a quarterfinal at the 1989 US Open?
Zina Garrison
Zina Garrison. She won in straight sets, then cried and apologised at courtside for doing it, and the two left the court with their arms around each other.
Q 15Which British player beat top seed Evert in the 1977 Wimbledon semifinals and went on to win the title?
Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade. It was Wimbledon's centenary and the Queen's Silver Jubilee year, and Wade won the final with the monarch making a rare visit to Centre Court.
Q 16Evert married which British tennis player in 1979?
John Lloyd
John Lloyd. She played as Chris Evert Lloyd for eight years, while he said he struggled with going from being a tennis player to being "Evert's husband".
Q 17Evert's record as the oldest women's world No. 1 was broken in 2013 by whom?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams. Evert had last held the top spot weeks before turning 31, in 1985; Williams passed that at 31 after coming back from foot surgery and blood clots in her lungs.
Q 18Evert served eleven years as president of which body?
WTA
She was also the very first No. 1 when the association's computer rankings began in November 1975.
Q 19Which Hollywood star did Evert date in the 1970s, after her broken engagement and before her first marriage?
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds. She also went out with Jack Ford, a president's son, a private life quite unlike the buttoned-up image she showed on court.
Q 20Which 15-year-old beat Evert in a 1989 final in Houston to win her first professional title?
Monica Seles
Monica Seles. She outlasted the retiring champion from the baseline in three sets, the first title of a run that took her to world No. 1 within two years.
Hana Mandlíková. In between, the young Czech got her own back by ending a long unbeaten run of Evert's in the 1981 French Open semifinals, on her way to that title.
Q 24Evert completed the career Grand Slam by winning which tournament in 1982?
Australian Open
Australian Open. She had entered it only twice before, in 1974 and 1981, and lost the final both times.
Q 25The 1986 book about Evert's first marriage was co-written by the daughter of which British prime minister?
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher. Carol Thatcher, a journalist, wrote it with the couple after they had separated and got back together; they divorced the year after it came out.
Q 26Evert's record winning streak on her best surface, from 1973 to 1979, ran to how many matches?
125
125. The run lasted almost six years and 24 tournaments, even though she skipped the biggest event on that surface, the French Open, three years running in the middle of it.
Q 27Who beat 16-year-old Evert in the 1971 US Open semifinal?
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King. Evert, an amateur still at high school, had come from behind in three matches running and saved six match points in one of them before the top seed stopped her.
Q 28Evert said which basketball star, the trainer of her greatest rival, had taught that rival to hate her?
Nancy Lieberman
Nancy Lieberman. Her fitness and mental programme helped turn the rivalry around in the early 1980s, and Evert answered by taking up weight training herself.
Q 29Evert and her brother John founded their tennis academy in which Florida city?
Boca Raton
Boca Raton. The academy came to draw young players from other states: Madison Keys was ten when she moved from Illinois to Florida to train there.
Q 30Evert's second husband, whom she married in 1988, was a star in which sport?
Downhill skiing
Downhill skiing. Andy Mill was a former Olympic racer whose career had been ended by a crash; her greatest rival introduced them at a New Year's Eve party in Aspen.