Evert shares advice given to father grown up which she still holds close: "Don't show your opponent any emotion and I promise you that will give you like two games a set"

Chris Evert was an incredible tennis player in her day winning 18 grand slam singles titles and she recalled some good advice her father gave her when she was younger.

Evert had a hall-of-fame tennis career and her list of achievements is very long. She was called the 'The Ice Maiden' due to her robotic demeanour on the court and it's something her father instilled in her when she was young. When she was 12, Evert started to get frustrated on the court often breaking racquets and her father gave her some very important advice.

She shared in 2021 what that was:

"I was practicing about 12 years old and I started cussing and broke a couple of rackets and my dad, who was my coach was on the court and he said 'If you show your opponent that you are upset, they are gonna be really happy about that and they are gonna go uh-huh, I have her'. He goes, 'Don't show your opponent any emotion and I promise you that will give you like two games a set."

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She also touched upon her nickname:

"Once I was that way, it came easy to me. Everybody expected me to be that way, so then I had an image and I was dubbed 'The Ice Maiden'. So then, of course, I couldn't come out of my bubble and all of a sudden be flamboyant and expressive and throw my racquet."

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I still think this was good advice!!!

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