Navratilova - Evert-Lloyd clash is off
NZPA-AFPKey Biscayne, Florida The expected clash between the world’s top two women tennis players here this week will not take place. The No. 1, Martina Navratilova, has withdrawn with the flu from the $475,470 Virginia Slims tournament at Florida.
Her main rival, and the world No. 2, Chris Evert-Lloyd, has been promoted as the top seed for the tournament.
Two weeks ago, Navratilova braved a stomach ailment to win the Worcester, Massachusetts, tournament, her sixth
tournament win in a row. But she told the organisers in Florida that she was not well enough to play this week. The announcement is a blow for the Florida competition, as it was this tournament 12 months ago, that rescued women’s tennis from predictability. Evert-Lloyd made a dramatic breakthrough with a 8-2, 6-4 victory over Navratilova in the 1985 final of the Virginia Slims of Florida. Evert-Lloyd had lost 13 straight times to her nemesis, heading into that tournament.
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Press, 29 January 1986, Page 23
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