Richards v Evert
WTA Tour career
Lineball analyst0–8
Chris Evert takes it, 8–0 on categories
Evert wins on titles. WTA Tour career: Richards 213 matches, Evert 1,478 matches.
- Evert has 161 titles (one every 9.1 matches) to Richards’ 10 titles (one every 16.7 matches).
- Evert averages a sets lost every 3.1 matches to Richards’ 1.0.
- Evert averages 5.9 games lost a match to Richards’ 9.4.
- Winners’ edge: Evert’s team won 90%, Richards’s team won 59% of the matches they played.
- Longevity: Evert has 1,478 matches across 21 seasons, Richards 213 in 7 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
- Not every stat was recorded for every match (masters/1000 matches, tour finals matches, olympic matches): those averages use only the games that logged them.
Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.
Tale of the tape
Per game. Totals and best single game underneath.
- 0.110 total · best 1Titlesper game0.1161 total · best 1
- –Grand Slam titlesper game0.018 total · best 1
- 10.92,310 total · best 19Games wonper game12.217,999 total · best 25
- 57.3Sets won %84.9
- 53.7Games won %67.6
- 0.118 total · best 1Finalsper game0.2236 total · best 1
Head to head
07 matches
since 19787
since 19787
- Carpet · 3 matchesRichards 0Evert 3
- Hard · 2 matchesRichards 0Evert 2
- Clay · 2 matchesRichards 0Evert 2
- Grand Slams · 1 matchRichards 0Evert 1
- Finals · 1 matchRichards 0Evert 1
Last meetings
- 13 Oct 1980 · Deerfield Beach · Round of 32 · HardEvert won 6-4 6-0
- 22 Sept 1980 · Atlanta · Round of 32 · CarpetEvert won 7-6 6-2
- 28 Aug 1979 · US Open · Round of 32 · HardEvert won 6-2 6-1
- 6 Aug 1979 · Indianapolis · Semifinal · ClayEvert won 6-1 6-0
- 5 Feb 1979 · Seattle · Final · CarpetEvert won 6-1 3-6 6-3
- 8 Jan 1979 · Oakland · Round of 16 · CarpetEvert won
Last 10 games
Titles, oldest to newest.
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