---The comparatively high unforced-error rate among so many of the professional womens' tennis players of today must be a bit dismaying to you. Your own unforced-error rate was one of the lowest, if not the lowest, in the entire history of professional women's tennis. Do you regard it as inappropriate to refer to a female professional tennis player as a "great champion" or as a "champion" if her average unforced error rate is higher than a certain specified percentage? What percentage would you regard as the threshhold on that, beyond which you would feel uncomfortable about that player's claim to being a great champion?
---I recently glanced at a magazine headline declaring that Serena Williams of the United States may be the greatest female professional tennis player of all time. In view of Serena Williams's average unforced error rate being significantly higher than many of the great champions of women's professional tennis history, do you feel uncomfortable about ranking Serena as the greatest female professional tennis player of all time?
---Most people assume that your father, Jimmy Evert, taught you more about tennis than anyone else from your entire life. Your mother, Claudette Evert, also enjoyed playing tennis, which I happened to observe in person during a period when I visited Holiday Park Tennis Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to myself hit groundstrokes against a backboard there in 1979. Would it be fair to ask you what your mother taught you about the game of tennis?
---In which ways did your style of play and outlook as a professional tennis player in the 1970s and 1980s reflect your mother's influence?
---When you have heard about a very talented teenage tennis player who repeatedly cheats in calling the score during his amateur tennis matches with other players, does this alarm you? What advice would you offer to teenage amateur tennis players who call shots incorrectly for their own advantage, or who call the score incorrectly in their own favor, during their amateur singles matches?
---Do you subscribe to the view that tennis players who habitually cheat in their amateur tennis matches should be disqualified from competing in professional tennis, since professional tennis should be reserved for tennis players who are of high integrity and high levels of honesty.
---If a professional tennis player acquires a reputation for being dishonest, do you believe that that player should be banned from continued participation in professional tennis until his addiction to dishonesty is successfully treated?
---Of all the professional tennis players you have been acquainted with, which one player, male or female, was the most dishonest player you can recall during his or her professional tennis matches or during professional tennis tournaments?
---Your interviews with the American sports reporters in the 1970s and 1980s generally refrained from referring to your own staunch Roman Catholic upbringing and accompanying Christian beliefs. Was there ever any professional tennis match you won about which you later told sports reporters who interviewed you that it was God, or the strength that your Roman Catholic Church had given you, that helped you to win that particular tennis match?
---I'm sure you read news accounts in the 1970s about one of your greatest rivals, Margaret Court of Australia, in which Mrs. Court would habitually give credit to God for having helped her to win her most recent tennis match. Did it ever cross your mind that Mrs. Court was possibly implying that God had smiled on herself in that match, while God had possibly frowned on her opponent---possibly even yourself, in those matches in which Mrs. Court defeated you in a singles match?
---As a pro tennis player in the 1970s and 1980s, you enjoyed the opportunity to visit a Roman Catholic Church in virtually any foreign country in which you competed. Did you generally make a point of attending a Roman Catholic church service in a foreign nation during or shortly before a tournament when you competed in that foreign nation? Did you ever sense that professional tennis rivals of yours from a religious denomination with smaller numbers of members, such as the Anglican Church or the Episcopalian Church, were at a comparative disadvantage in those foreign nations where no church of that denomination was available in that particular foreign city or foreign town where the tennis tournament was being held.
---During your career as a professional tennis player, did you ever feel that you yourself could identify with Jesus Christ during that time period because you felt that you yourself were being persecuted or martyred or subjected to false accusations against yourself in some context?
--Of all the male professional tennis players whom you competed against in professional mixed doubles matches at tournaments in the 1970s and 1980s, which one professional tennis player most reminded you of Jesus Christ, the figure from world history who inspired your own Roman Catholic Church?
---I recently glanced at an article in "Tennis" magazine from a recent prior year that cited an urgent need for more American teenage youths and young American women to pursue a career as a professional tennis player. What do you think might currently discourage talented female amateur tennis players in the United States from turning pro?
---Which fears or concerns about the pro circuit by very talented female amateur tennis players do you regard as unjustifiable?
---Which fears or concerns about the pro circuit by very talented female amateur tennis players do you regard as justifiable?
---When a very talented female amateur tennis player in the United States tells you that she fears that she might get raped or sexually harassed or stalked in the ladies' locker room or in her hotel room or elsewhere in urban areas and towns she might be visiting as a professional tennnis player, what would your response to that fear of hers be?
---When a very talented female amateur tennis player tells you that she fears hearing lots of lewd cat-calls and vulgar heckling from male spectators, and possibly some female spectators, if she joins the professional tennis circuit, what is your response to that cited fear?
---Was there any foreign country where you yourself felt during your career as a tennis player that the tennis fans or tournament organizers were too physically demonstrative toward you, such as by hugging you or kissing you or otherwise being excessively physical toward you?
---Which foreign country was that---and of course, I have Italy on my mind as one distinct possibility, based on the impression of many Americans that southern Italians tend to be very physically expressive and demonstrative toward others.
----How did you as a tennis player and American female athlete respond to what you regarded as inordinately physical tennis fans in that foreign country?
---If a very talented female amateur tennis player tells you that she fears being victimized by a terrorist group or a stalker if she joins the pro tennis circuit and travels the world competing at tournaments, what would your response to her concerns about that be?
---Do you sense that many of the most talented amateur female tennis players in the United States fear that if they turned pro, they would lose all their privacy rights? Is that fear justifiable, in your opinion?
---You must be among the female American celebrities who have received the largest total number of requests for autographs from fans of yours. Can you estimate how many times since the 1970s you have inscribed your signature on a tennis ball handed to you by a fan, or on a photograph of yourself that you then handed or mailed to a fan of yours?
---Did you ever find it fatiguing and draining to sign your autograph for fans of yours?
---Did you ever on any occasion decline to autograph a tennis ball or sheet of paper or booklet or book for a fan of yours who asked for your autograph?
---You may recall that Martina Navratilova once commented to a women's magazine in Texas that the tennis fans in California are too superficial for her tastes. Martina told that Texan magazine during an interview in the 1980s that the tennis fans in Texas are more sincerely friendly toward the players than the tennis fans in California are. In California, Martina said, the tennis fans exhibit less of a deep and sincere interest in the pro tennis players as human beings. Did you also find the fans in California to be as Martina reportedly described them?
---Does it bother you at all to have yourself read or heard that your personal friend Martina Navratilova told the news media that she chose to move back to Europe because the United States is too censorious a society for her tastes. Do you have any reason to believe that American society wronged your friend Martina, such as by censoring her views or opinions or law-abiding conduct in any way?
---Did you attempt to persuade your friend Martina Navratilova to remain in the United States, after she informed you that she planned to move back to Europe?
---Do you believe that your friend Martina Navratilova's move back to Europe has undermined or hindered the caliber of the tennis-education program or the tennis scene in the United States in any way?
---When you reflect on the overall caliber of the tennis scene in the United States, do you see a need for better training of prospective new tennis coaches and prospective new tennis teachers?
---Which academy or school or university or college in the United States currently offers the finest caliber of training for tennis coaches and tennis instructors?
---Which academy or school in the United States currently offers the finest training programs for those persons who serve as linesmen or judges at professional tennis tournaments?
---Were you ever a personal friend of Mike and Flo Blanchard, two of the most famous judges at professional tennis tournaments in the United States. How much of a contribution did Mike and Flo Blanchard make to officating at professional tennis tournaments in the U.S.?
---Do you know of any current scholarship fund named after Mike or Flo Blanchard that pays for travel expenses or other fees incured by individuals seeking to obtain training in order to serve as a linesman or net judge or judge or umpire at a professional tennis tournament?
---Many people have commented on the phenomenal mental toughness you exhibited throughout your professional tennis career in the 1970s and 1980s. This inevitably prompts a question. During those very brief periods in which you and your female opponent each rested along the sidelines between games, what were you thinking about during that time period?
---Do you have any advice to offer amateur or professional tennis players on how they can make the best use of those very brief periods when they are resting along the sidelines between games in the middle of a tennis match?
---During your professional tennis career, did you ever attempt to slow down the pace of the play, such as by taking more time than usual to serve the ball to your opponent? If so, what was your strategy behind attempting to slow down the pace of the match in that way?
---Some observers of tennis have noted that when professional tennis players begin hitting a higher percentage of sliced shots and softer shots such as defensive lobs, this could indicate that they are feeling fatigued in that match. Is that how you would interpret a change in a player's style in the middle of a match?
---When you yourself felt fatigued during a professional tennis match in the 1970s and 1980s, did you have any particular strategies you would yourself pursue to strengthen your own position in that singles tennis match and attempt to win that match?
---Do you recall what percentage of the professional singles tennis matches you competed in were three-set matches? Do you sense that if a female professional tennis player can minimize the number of three-set matches she competes in, this will help her to avoid becoming fatigued over the course of a professional tennis touranment?
---In the late 1980s, and I believe it was either 1988 or 1989, I read a newspaper article in the "Houston Chronicle" daily newspaper which stated that Steffi Graf of Germany had experienced gynecological problems, and I believe the news story cited "cramps" of some type, that Steffi Graf reportedly said had hindered her performance against an opponent in a ladies' singles tennis match. In ladies' singles tennis matches these days, how often do you sense that gynecological issues affect the outcome of those matches?
---When you yourself were interviewed by sports reporters after you had lost a professional singles tennis match in the 1970s or 1980s, did you yourself ever tell the news media that you had experienced gynecological problems during that match that hindered your performance in that tennis match?
---Do you recommend that amateur tennis players and professional tennis players should keep videotapes of their greatest-ever performances on the tennis court, and then review those videotapes from time to time to help inspire themselves in the game?
---Do you yourself own a collection of "Chris Evert's Greatest Performances on the Tennis Court," as that collection of videotapes might be called? If so, which of those videotapes do you enjoy watching the most frequently these days, and who was your female opponent in those videotapes that particularly inspire you today?
---You once told a newspaper reporter that during your days as a single woman competing at pro tennis tournaments, you often returned to your hotel room after a match, regardless of whether you had won the match, and cried. You also told the news media that your loneliness as a single woman during the 1970s was emotionally harmful to you as a professional tennis player. Is that an accurate paraphrasing of what you told a newspaper reporter in the 1970s or 1980s?
---As a woman who has endured three unsuccessful marriages to three different men who proved to be incompatible with you, with two of those marriages having been during your career as a tennis player, do you ever wish that you had remained a single woman throughout your entire career as a professional tennis player?
---Do you also sense that the emotional duress inflicted on a female tennis player from a failed marriage is more traumatic for her than life as a celibate single woman competing at tennis tournaments might have been?
---Looking back, do you sometimes sense that if you had developed more in the way of strictly-platonic friendships with true gentlemen and honorable male youths during your years as a single woman competing at tournaments, this might have helped you to reduce the amount of sadness you experienced during that period?
---You once told the news media that you enjoyed living in Phoenix, Arizona, as a member of a professional tennis team based in that city, because Phoenix is a "low-key city," as you put it in the 1970s. What made Phoenix a low-key city compared with the Fort Lauderdale area of Florida that you grew up in?
---As a native of Florida, wasn't it difficult for you to live in a very dry city in the middle of the dessert, Phoenix, when you had been accustomed to lush verdant scenery and lots of rainfall in the Fort Lauderdale are of Florida?
--Do you still maintain any type of special personal or professional relationship with your former teammates from that team-tennis organization based in Phoenix, Arizona, in which you were a member in the 1970s?
---Would you personally support revival of the team-tennis concept in the United States?
---Have you ever considered writing an editorial for "Tennis Magazine" of today in which you might urge the revival or strengthening of team tennis in the United States?
---Have you competed in any of the tennis tournaments these days that feature former champions as competitors? I mention this after recalling that American former tennis champion John McEnroe, for instance, seems to thrill to competing in that type of circuit these days. And I get the impression that he's not throwing temper tantrums or having major conflicts with the linesmen anymore, which many fans of his no doubt find very impressive.
---Do you regard the current performances by John McEnroe at professional tennis tournaments honoring former greats of tennis as a much-needed opportunity for John to prove to the entire world that he is, in fact, a true gentleman at heart, and that he is no longer a major embarrassment to Ireland, his nation of ancestry, and to the United States.
---Many people will always remember you as a leading promoter of Lipton Tea. You did television commercials for Lipton in the 1970s, as I'm sure you will recall. Do you recommend consumption of iced tea by an amateur or professional tennis player in between games during a tennis match?
---Do you feel that the tea companies could and should do more in the way of sponsoring professional tennis tournaments of today? I am fairly sure that Lipton sponsors at least one pro tennis tournament, and it may well be more than that. I don't recall any tennis tournaments sponsored by Twining's of London or Bigelow of Fairfield, Connecticut, to name two other world-famous tea companies.
---What about the fruit-juice companies? Would you like to see more in the way of professional tennis tournaments at which a fruit-juice company is the cited sponsor? I'm raising this question partly because I myself am not aware of any pro tennis tournament that is currently sponsored by a fruit-juice cmopany such as Dole or Minute Maid or Tropicana. But there may well be tournaments with a sponsor of that type.
---As I'm sure you are very aware, your former rival Billie Jean King had a strong sense of the pageantry of tennis and the importance of showmanship in the game. The nationally-televised Battle of the Sexes match between herself and Bobby Riggs in the 1970s inside the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, conveyed that strong sense of showmanship she had. This suggests another question. Would you like to see a Tennis-Theme float at the Macy's parade in New York City on New Year's Day on an annual basis?
----Who do you believe should represent the professional tennis community while riding on a float in the Macy's Parade in New York City? Should that be the current most-highly-ranked American male professional tennis player and the current most-highly-ranked female American professional tennis player, riding together as an 'American Tennis Couple', so to speak? Or would you prfer that the world number-one ranked men's and women's professional tennis players be asked to represent the pro tennis coummunity on that float in the Macy's Parade?
----As I'm sure you may be aware, many American men regard tennis as a "sissy sport," despite the many muscular and powerful and masculine men, including Roscoe Tanner of Tennessee in the 1970s, who have excelled at that sport at professional tennis tournaments. Do you regard this anti-tennis bias by many American men as one of the leading barriers to encouraging male youths to learn the game of tennis?
---As you must be very aware, many of the public tennis courts throughout the United States have cracks on those courts or their net is torn, or are otherwise second-rate. Do you believe that the state and local governments throughout the United States should do more than they currently do to renovate currently-substandard public tennis courts in this country?
---My biological father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, once told me that when he was an assistant or associate professor of Botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in the 1950s, the President of his campus in Lincoln publicly urged the elimination of that school's varsity football program. The University of Nebraska president reportedly made that public plea during a multi-year period in which the University of Oklhaoma Sooners varsity football squad under their very famous coach, Coach Bud Wilkinson, trounced the Cornhusker varsity football team on a frequent basis. The University of Nebraska President during that time period urged the construction of numerous additional tennis courts on the campus of the University of Nebraska, and a transition into a tennis-oriented athletic focus at Nebraska. What is your own personal opinion of that University of Nebraska President's "eliminate varsity football and promote tennis instead" policy?
---Does it ever alarm you to sense that many of the sports in the United States that attract the most attention, including college football or pro football and boxing and hockey and auto-racing, if those could each be classified as "sports," are also sports in which the injury rate is dismayingly high or severe?
---If a University of Florida President in Gainesville, Florida, were to comment to you (and I don't know that he would, since this is a pure guess on my part) that he cannot afford to downplay or eliminate the varsity football program there, since it is the leading fund-raising for his school of any of the sports programs there, what would your response to his comment be?
---Does it ever irk you when you hear another American citizen comment to you that "baseball is our national sport" or "football is our national sport"? Would you like to see the U.S. Congress declare tennis as the official national sport of the United States?
---Would you at least like to see the U.S. Congress officially vote to designate tennis as the official national lifetime sport of the United States?
---As you know, during the 1960s our entire nation was very preoccupied with "catching up with the Russians" in space technology and science after the very surprising news about the Soviet launching of the Sputnik in outer pace in 1957. These days, do you sometimes wish that American tennis promoters would develop a "catching up with the Russians" outlook toward our professional tennis scene? I raise this question because, as you are no doubt very aware, Russian women, in particular, in the last 10-year period have accounted for a growing percentage of all of the first or second-place trophies being earned at professional tennis tournaments. In terms of the depth of the field of first-rate players, some might even say that female citizens of the former Societ Union account are much stronger ovreall, in the way of depth of talent, than their female American counterparts at pro tennis tournaments.
---Would you like to see a Congressional Medal of Honor or a Presidential Award of some type conferred each year on the American citizen who has contributed significantly toward promoting the game of tennis, whether at the amateur level or at the professional level, in the United States?
---Some observers of the game of tennis have compared it to a chess game. Do you agree with that comarison, and if so, do you think this might help explain why so many of the top ladies' tennis players of today are of Russian ancestry, Russia traditionally being a nation where the citizenry excel at playing chess.
---Would you like to see a weekly American television program with a title such as "Strategic Tennis" that each week highlights, using video clips from actual professional or varsity college tennis matches, specific strategies that tennis players pursued with success during a tennis match. To name one example, as you will no doubt recall, your rival Billie Jean King would frequently compete against you in 1970s singles matches by hitting her groundstrokes to the middle of your side of the court near the baseline. By using that strategy against you, Billie Jean King reportedly sought to deprive you of the sharply-angled shots featuring pivoting that you excelled at hitting. So conceivably this "Strategic Tennis" television show could feature examples from televised tennis matches from previous decades, including the 1970s, as well as matches of today.
---Do you happen to know the percentage of all shots played in men's or women's professional tennis matches in 2012 that were, in fact, lobs? Do you regard the lob as an under-used strategic shot, or as an over-used shot?
---Would you like to see the United States Tennis Association, Tennis Magazine, the Association of Tennis Professionals, and other professional tennis organizations jointly commission a computer-software company to design a special new "Tennis Instant-Facts on File" or "Tennis Statistics on File" computer data base? I am referring to the type of computer data base that could instantly tell anyone consulting it what percentage of all shots played during all professional men's or women's tennis matches in 2012 were, in fact lobs.
---Do you think the professional men's tennis players generally make more effective use of lobbing during a match than the professional women's tennis players do, or is it the other way around?
---One of your competitors of the 1970s, Mrs. Margaret Court, wrote in her very politely-worded autobiography that Russian scientists and researchers invited her to visit the Soviet Union and have her body and physique, her very impressive physical fitness, etc., analyzed in great detail, with accompanying statistical documentation to be pursued in Russia. Mrs. Court also mentioned in her book, a book I myself read with interest in the early 1990s while living in Yoakum, Texas, that Mrs. Court had no objections to visiting the Soviet Union for that type of analysis of her body and physical fitness by Russian scientists during the 1970s. Do you yourself have any reservations or concerns about that particular visit by Mrs. Court to the Soviet Union? For instance, do you believe that certain medical information or anatomical information about a professional tennis player should not be shared with others?
---Did you yourself ever receive an invitation from any foreign government for yourself to visit that nation, whether that country be Japan or Great Britain or Luxembourg or Australia or the Soviet Union, in order to have your own body and physical fitness analyzed in great detail with statistical documentation?
---How would you respond to the criticism by some Americans that "all professional tennis matches are boring to me" or "I find it difficult to follow professional tennis matches when I watch them on television." I raise this question because I find as a resident of Texas that many of the Texans I talk with about tennis cite either or both of those two objections to watching tennis.
---As you know, professional tennis players who have just won their tennis match often do a rather flamboyant dance or gyration these days. The much-admired Rafa Nadal is particularly colorful that way, as I'm sure you might agree. Many who watch these post-match victory dances on television sense that the professional tennis players who turn flamboyant that way are possibly trying to compete with professional soccer players and professional American football players for media attention. What is your own personal reaction to this growing trend toward very dramatic displays of gleeful ecstasy by a player who has just won a professional tennis match?
---Do you ever sense that the player who just lost a professional tennis match feels a bit humiliated by the triumphant player who is gyrating gleefully on the other side of the net?
---If a professional tennis player has just lost a match, and is suddenly subjected to a verbalized nasty put-down of that player by a friend or relative or supporter of the opponent, is there ever any circumstance in which you would recommend that the defeated player should offer a verbal reply to that put-down? Or is it best to smile politely and walk toward the locker room without making any reply to that exultant supporter of your opponent?
---In all of your years on the professional tennis scene, did you ever once witness a fistfight or brawl after a pro tennis match? If so, do you believe that the organizers of that pro tennis tournament responded effectively to that fistfight or brawl?
---Did you ever observe a professional tennis player thrusting or aiming the butt of his tennis racquet toward an opponent, as if to suggest that that player sought to "shoot down" or "gun down" his opponent? Did you regard any such conduct during a pro tennis tournament as vulgar and unprofessional?
---When you competed at professional tennis tournaments in the 1970s and 1980s and you happened to glance into the crowd on occasion, could you tell immediately from a spectator's body language and demeanor whether he was rooting for you or for your opponent in that ladies' singles match?
----Did it ever distract you significantly and hurt your feelings during a pro tennis match to immediately sense that one of the spectators you happened to spot in the crowd appeared to you to be be rooting for your opponent, regardless of whether that opponent of yours was Tracy Austin, Evonne Goolagong, Virginia Wade, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Billie Jean King, Hana Mandlikova, Francois Durr, Olga Morozova, Sue Barker, Margaret Court, Diane Fromholtz, or some other female tennis player.
---The overheard sun at noon must be especially intense and rough on the server during a tennis match, if I'm not mistaken. Do you regard it as unwise or unfair or sadistic on the part of a professional tennis tournament organizer to schedule an outdoor professional tennis match to begin at noon?
---Did you ever wear sunglasses during a professional tennis match in which you competed? If so, do you recall the circumstances in which you wore sunglasses during actual matches you played at a tournament?
---If a new solar-powered tennis-players' hat could be developed that would keep the player's head cool and 'air conditioned', if you will, throughout his tennis matches, would you consider endorsing or supporting that type of solar-powered tennis hat?
---If a supporter of tennis wants to invest in tennis through bond investments and his overall investments portfolio, what advice would you offer to that tennis supporter? I raise this question partly because I myself don't recall any corporation listed on the stock market that is associated with the sport of tennis. And I myself have not seen a recent article in "Tennis" magazine that offered guidance on that subject.
---When you are asked to reflect on the very impressive career of the Bryan brothers in professional doubles tennis, and at the moment I can only remember the full name of one of those very nice gentlemen, Bob Bryan, do you sometimes regard those two young American men as particularly good role models for senior citizens?
I raise this question because, as I'm sure you might agree, many senior citizens who are amateur tennis players find playing singles matches too strenuous for them. For those amateur players in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, playing doubles tennis gives them an opportunity for enjoying tennis and getting exercise with reduced risk of their suffering a heart attack or other injury as a result.
---Since Florida accounts for a disproportionately high percentage of all senior citizen amateur tennis players, would you like to see Florida do more to help offer additional professional doubles-tennis tournaments? Presumably tournaments of that type would be especially inspirational to Florida's many senior-citizen players who prefer to compete in doubles matches.
---It just now occurs to me that even though I have purchased a number of tennis-theme factual books ever since the 1970s, I have never owned any reference book with a title such as "Photo-Illustrated Dictionary of Tennis Terminology and Semantic Distinctions in Tennis." Among the tennis terms that a reference book of that type might include are: "baseline"; "deuce court"; "linesman"; "ad court" or "advantage court"; the term for the line separating the deuce court from the ad court; the term for the prong that's situated at the center of the net; "drop volley"; "topspin lob"; "defensive lob"; "chip shot"; "approach shot"; "cross-court shot"; "winner"; "slow-balling" during a rally; "looping or arching topsin shots" of the type that professional female tennis player Andrea Jaeger consistently hit in her matches, versus other types of topspin shots; "underspin"; "slice," "clay court"; "grass court"; "The Majors"; "tennis coach"; "tennis instructor"; "marathon match"; "straight sets victory"; "mixed doubles match"; "tie-breaker"; etc.
---Does it offend you or disappoint you in any way that some of the officials at professional tennis tournaments are referrred to as being a "linesman," regardless of whether that particular tournament official is a man or a woman. Or do you regard the term "lineswoman" as being awkward, with "linesman" being preferable to you?
----Have you ever met anyone whom you regarded as being "too tennis-crazed" or "too obsessed with tennnis," if you will? In your opinion, what is the threshhold beyond which you would describe a person as being "too tennis-minded" or "too extreme about their obsession with the sport of tennis"?
---So many of the professional tennis players of today keep Blogs and do lots of "tweets" online on a year-round basis. Do you ever sense that tennis players who work so hard at writing about their own tennis life during their career could possibly burn out sooner, or lose their enthusiasm for the game, from all that verbiage?
---Do you ever sense that a professional tennis player can hurt his own performance on the tennis court by becoming possibly too self-absorbed and possibly too vain or too egomaniacal? Does any particular professional tennis player come to mind for you who may have fit that description, in your opinion?
---What perentage of all Americans do you regard as being tennis maniacs, if you would feel comfortable about using that term.
---When you meet a tennis devotee or tennis fanatic or tennis maniac who has had a tennis-theme message emblazoned on his or her own body, do you ever find yourself challenged to comment politely and appreciatively to that individual about their tennis tattoo?
---Have you ever competed professionally at a tennis tournament where the spectators were permitted to consume alcoholic beverages in the stands while watching a tennis match at that tournament? Did it ever irk you or upset you or scare you at all if you sensed that fans were getting drunk while watching you compete in a pro tennis match?
---Did you ever compete professionally at a tennis tournament, such as possibly at Key West, Florida, where you sensed from what you could smell in the air or hear from the stands that some of the spectators watching your match that day were consuming marijuana or some other illicit drug, such as cocaine, in the stands. In a circumstance like that, did you find it distracting during your pro tennis match to sense that you were there entertaining illicit-drug addicts through your match, when you had not sought any such dubious distinction for yourself, it seems fair to assume.
---Did you ever compete at a professional tennis tournament in which a former boyfriend of yours was in the stands, and he shouted something at you during your match that day that you felt was very inappropriately intimate or vulgar-sounding? How did you respond to that awkward position he put you in during your tennis match that day?
---Of all the insults or hurtful comments that spectators at professional tennis tournaments hurled at you during or shortly afer matches of yours in the 1970s or 1980s, which comment do you recall as having been the most hurtful? I raise this question based on the possibility that a shouted comment from a spectator that referred to a friend or relative of yours, such as your mother or your father or one of your sisters, may have offended you more than any hurled insult directed at you yourself. But this is merely a guess on my part.
----If a pregnant female friend of yours told you that she wanted to have her baby delivered on a tennis court or at a tennis facility, what would your reaction be to that cited ambition of hers?
---Does it ever bother you when you hear a devotee of tennis tell you that he himself or she herself dislikes another lifelong sport, such as golf? Do you believe that professional tennis players and amateur tennis players should exhibit sportsmanlike conduct and a polite appreciativeness toward each of the healthy lifelong sports, including golf, bowling, table tennis, shuffleboard, swimming, and the like.
---How long do you believe that an amateur or professional tennis player should rest before they eat a meal upon conclusion of their most recent tennis match? Should that tennis player wait one hour, say, before they would even think of ingesting any food, or do you believe that there is no medical reason for waiting an entire hour before eating a meal upon conclusion of a tennis match?
---Would you like to see a public botanical garden somewhere in Florida or another U.S. state, or possibly in your ancestral-heritage country of Luxembourg or Ireland, that features a beautiful gloral garden shaped like a tennis racquet and possibly a tennis ball as well? Do you know of any public garden of that type at present?
---Would you like to see a gondola in Venice, Italy, that is shaped like a tennis racquet, and that could carry two lovers of the game of tennis on a tour of Venice via the canals of Venice?
---What are your own secret fantasies that relate to tennis or that feature tennis as a theme in that fantasy of yours?
---If some tennis-promotion cultural group sponsored a Tennis Movies Film Festival, would you want to attend that cultural event praising and exalting the sport of tennis in the United States?
---Which of the Hollywood movies that depicted professional or amateur tennis players competing in tennis matches do you believe were or was the finest?
---If a Hollywood producer were to ask you for permission to himself produce a Hollywood movie highlights your own life as a tennis player, which Hollywood actress would you most want to portray yourself in that movie?
---Of all the nations of the world, which one country, and I already sense that you will answer this question by citing Australia, shows the most overall appreciation for excellence in achievement by professional tennis players of that country?
----As famous as those affable Aussies are for cheering on their professional tennis players, do you ever sense that a professional tennis player in Australia is frequently offered free meals by the managers or owners of restaurants when those Australian tennis players dine out in Australia?
----During your own career as a professional tennis player in the United States, do you recall how often a manager or owner of a restaurant where you were dining would volunteer to you that your meal inside that restaurant was on the house and at no charge to yourself? Did you always accept those types of offers by restaurant managers or restaurant owners?
---Do you know of any retired or current professional tennis player who owns a restaurant anywhere in the world that you particularly like or love? Have you ever dined in that restaurant, and did you sense that that restaurant was popular in the city or town or village where that restaurant is situated?
----Do you ever sense that if American society did more than it currently does to honor and exalt excellence of achievement by amateur tennis players, including by talented varsity college tennis players, this would help enormously toward recruitment of the best possible amateur tennis players from the U.S. to pursue careers as professional tennis players.
---Do you happen to know whether the current First Lady, Michelle Obama, plays tennis? Have you ever met with her in person and talked with Mrs. Obama about the sport of tennis in any context?
----Of all the First Ladies in the White House whom you have been acquainted with or heard about, which First Lady was the finest or most talented amateur tennis player? Was that Jacqueline Kennedy, Rosalyn Carter, or possibly Mrs. Obama?
----Do you believe that American society could promote tennis a lot more effectively among girls, in particular, if a First Lady in the White House would get photographed by the news media hitting groundstrokes on a tennis court?
--Many people have no doubt commented on your apparently harmonious personal and professional relationship with your brother, John Evert, throughout your life. Of all your personal or professional relationships with men from any time period of your life, including the present, would you say that your relationship with your brother John has possibly been your most consistently successful one for you?
---Many people have also no doubt commented to you on how well you and your brother, John Evert, work together as business partners at the Evert Tennis Academy in south Florida. Has anyone ever mentioned to you that since you and your brother get along so well, possibly it might make sense for you, even in the context of your pursuit of a romantic life for yourself, to find a gentleman not related to you who is more like your brother John than any of your previous three respective husbands apparently were.
---Do you ever sense that having been divorced three times possibly feels a bit like a jinx in your romantic life. Are you possibly afraid that if you get married to another gentleman in 2012, this might result in your being subjected to the humiliation of a fourth marital divorce for you, at some future point.
---Before you get married for a fourth time, do you plan to spend at least a full year to get to know that gentleman in order to feel fully confident that a romantic relationship with him will truly be a lasting one for you?
---Has it ever crossed your mind that the very high level of integrity you no doubt assocaite with your brother, John Evert, and your father, Jimmy Evert, are possibly so high that it will be very difficult for you to find a prospective marriage partner for yourself who meets that "Evert standard" you are accustomed to for honesty and fair play and gentlemanliness and obedience of the law as well as obedience of the rules, for instance.
---Do you subscribe to the view that the best possible future husband for you is also someone whom you would enjoy playing mixed doubles with as his partner in a tennis court match? As very important as the healthful lifelong sport of tennis is for you, it seems fair to pose this question to you.
---Did you and your first husband, John Lloyd, frequently compete together on the same team in mixed-doubles at professional tennis tournaments? If so, were you generally successful as a mixed-doubles team at tournaments?
---Of all the professional tennis players whom you teamed with in mixed-doubles competitions in the 1970s and 1980s at pro tennis tournaments, which male tennis player did you enjoy teaming up with the most at tournaments? Is that gentleman still a personal friend of yours today?
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