Chris Evert married
i NZPA ? Reuter Fort Lauderdale Chris Evert, the world’s Itop woman tennis star, mar-1 • ried British Davis Cup| ! player, John Lloyd, in a highly-traditional ceremony.' lon Tuesday, close to the] ! courts where she learned to play. Miss Evert, aged 24. wore! a $6OOO dress made of satin] and chantilly lace with seed] pearls and a full-length veil! for the candlelit ceremony in] I a Roman Catholic church in: I her home town. Lloyd, aged 25, who is I little-known in the United I States and ranked eightieth ! in the world tennis rankings, (wore a tan dinner-jacket. ] The ceremony was [attended by 125 relatives (and friends, including top j professional players, but the i American, Jimmy Connors, (whose long on-off romance | with Miss Evert often hit the headlines, did not attend. Connors, who was once engaged to Miss Evert, secretly married former Playboy bunny, Patti McGuire, ( last October. Miss Evert, who is estimated to have won SUS2M in her professional career, met Lloyd at Wimbledon last July; they announced their engagement in DecemI ber.
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Press, 19 April 1979, Page 32
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176Chris Evert married Press, 19 April 1979, Page 32
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