Evert is entering the Hall in expected style, becoming only the fourth player and to be elected unanimously since 1980. She is the 44th woman and the 163rd person to be inducted.
Evert won 157 tournament titles -- second only to archrival Martina Navratilova's 167 -- including 18 Grand Slam championships. At the 1984 Australian Open, she became the first player, man or woman, to win 1,000 matches.
Evert's 125-match win streak on clay from August 1973 to May 1979 endures as the best record of any player for any single surface. She was never ranked lower than fourth in her 18-year career.
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