The Evert effect
Tennis legend Chris Evert is single again, and taking a note of how the sporting performance of each man in her life has improved significantly since partnering with her, Patrick Kidd urges England board chairman Giles Clarke hook up with her in
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Tennis legend Chris Evert is single again, and taking a note of how the sporting performance of each man in her life has improved significantly since partnering with her, Patrick Kidd urges England board chairman Giles Clarke hook up with her in order to work wonders with English cricket. He writes in the Times:
Most noticeably, the Evert Effect worked on Jimmy Connors. Within months of them getting engaged in 1973, Connors went from being a quarter-finals-at-best competitor to winning three grand slams in a row. They broke up before getting married, but the first Mr Evert was John Lloyd, a Brit on the downslope of his career before he married Chrissie in 1979. Three months later, he reached the final of a tournament for the first time in two years and he went on to win three grand-slam doubles titles as well as getting to two singles grand-slam quarter-finals in his thirties. Then came Andy Mill, the second Mr Evert after she and Lloyd divorced in 1987. Mill had retired from Olympic skiing by the time he married Evert in 1988, but he took up fishing and went on to be regarded as one of the best fly fishermen in the world.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo