Evert makes it to Flushing Meadows

As busy as Chris Evert’s summer has been, she still found her way back to Flushing Meadows as the Grand Slam celebrated 40 years of the Open era. Evert, a six-time US Open champion, returned for the gala event at Arthur Ashe Stadium just two months after marrying star golfer Greg Norman. Even though she has three boys starting school this week, Evert wasn’t about to miss a regal night like this. "I have a lot going on, but whenever I’m called on … whenever the USTA or whether it’s Wimbledon or any of the Grand Slams call and they we’re having all the past champions get together to celebrate and have a parade or whatever, I just love doing things like this," said Evert, who won four straight U.S. Open titles from 1975-78. "It’s part of my past that I want to still have it be part of my future, too," Evert said on the red carpet outside the stadium named for the late Ashe, the first men’s champion of the Open era. "I don’t want to just erase the past and say that was then and this is now and now I’m a mom and now I’m doing other things."