Martina Navratilova (Tennis Player) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Martina Navratilova Former Tennis Player Female Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech American tennis player and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived. " Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles.… Read More related links Murray's Rise To Top 'amazing Accomplishment': Navratilova Yahoo News - Nov 06, 2016 ' Scotsman Andy Murray\'s achievement in becoming men\'s tennis world number one is exceptional women\'s tennis legend <mark>Martina Navratilova</mark> told the BBC on Sunday. Murray, 29, moved to the top of the rankings for the first time in his career after replacing long-time incumbent Novak Djokovic when Milos Raonic pulled out of their semi-final in Paris on Saturday.

The Scot\'s climb to the ATP rankings\' summit -- the first Briton to do so since computerised rankings came in in 1973 -... Us Athletes Jumping Into Heated Presidential Race Yahoo News - Oct 31, 2016 ' As the presidential candidates sprint the final leg of the race for the White House, sports luminaries are lining up behind their preferred candidates. LeBron James, Stephen Curry and <mark>Martina Navratilova</mark> have said they will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton on November 8, while Republican candidate Donald Trump has the support of Mike Tyson, Jack Nicklaus and Dennis Rodman. ' Evert Sees Post Serena 'new Era' Taking Shape Yahoo News - Oct 29, 2016 'Women\'s tennis has entered a new era no longer dominated by Serena Williams, 18-time Grand Slam winner Chris Evert said Saturday.

\"I don\'t think nobody will dominate in the near future anyway like Serena Williams, and kudos to her, it shows how great she was as a player, but I think now this is how we\'re going to form some new rivalry where the girls will have to play it out,\" she said at the WTA Finals in Singapore. The variety and depth, different age groups, different styles of play,... Maria Sharapova Joins Wtt Smash Hits Charity Tennis Event To Benefit The Elton John Aids Foundation Yahoo News - Oct 05, 2016 'NEW YORK, Oct.

5, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Â The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) is pleased to announce that tennis star Maria Sharapova will join Mardy Fish, John McEnroe, <mark>Martina Navratilova</mark>, Mark Philippoussis, and Andy Roddick to headline World TeamTennis (WTT) Smash Hits at Caesars Palace, a charity night of tennis co-hosted by longtime friends Sir Elton John and Billie Jean King on Monday, October 10, 2016.Â Also joining the line-up is former world No. 1 doubles sta... Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Martina Navratilova. CHILDHOOD 1956 Birth Born on October 18, 1956. 1962 5 Years Old In 1962, her mother Jana married Miroslav NavrÃ¡til, who became her first tennis coach. … Read More Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix "ovÃ¡"), thus becoming Martina NavrÃ¡tilovÃ¡.

Her father, Mirek, was a ski instructor and remarried and divorced. When she was eight, he committed suicide. Read Less TEENAGE 1972 15 Years Old … Navratilova has a sister, Jana, and an older paternal half-brother. Navratilova's grandmother, Agnes Semanska, was a tennis player for the Czechoslovak Federation before the Second World War and had a ranking as high as no. 2 among Czech women during her amateur career. <br /><br />When Navratilova was 4, she was hitting a tennis ball off a cement wall and started to play tennis regularly at age 7. Read Less In 1972, at the age of 15, Navratilova won the Czechoslovakia national tennis championship. Show Less In 1973, aged 16, she made her debut on the United States Lawn Tennis Association professional tour but did not turn professional until 1975.

… Read More Although perhaps most renowned for her mastery of fast low-bouncing grass, her best early showing at majors was on the red clay at the French Open, where she would go on to reach the final 6 times. Read Less In 1973, she made the quarterfinals where she lost 6-7 4-6 to Evonne Goolagong. … Read More She made the quarterfinals the next year and lost to Helga Masthoff (nÃ©e Niessen), after again losing the first set in a tiebreak. Read Less 1974 17 Years Old She won her first professional singles title in Orlando, Florida in 1974, at the age of 17. … Read More Upon arriving in the United States, Navratilova first lived with former Vaudeville actress, Frances Dewey Wormser, and her husband, Morton Wormser, a tennis enthusiast. Read Less Show Less Navratilova was the runner-up at two major singles tournaments in 1975. … Read More She lost in the final of the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong and in the final of the French Open to Chris Evert over three sets.

After losing to Evert in the semifinals of that year's US Open, the 18-year-old Navratilova went to the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City and informed them that she wished to defect from Communist Czechoslovakia. Within a month, she received a green card and in 1981 became a US citizen. Read Less Also, in 1975, Navratilova teamed with then world number one, Chris Evert, to win the French Open women's doubles title, Martina's first major title. … Read More They teamed again in 1976 to win the women's Wimbledon doubles title over Billie Jean King and Bette Stove. Read Less TWENTIES 1978 - 1979 3 More Events 1978 21 Years Old Navratilova won her first major singles title at Wimbledon in 1978, where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 ranking for the first time on the WTA computer, although Evert maintained the number one ranking at the end of 1978.

Show Less She successfully defended her Wimbledon title in 1979, again beating Evert in the final in straight sets, and earned the World No. 1 ranking at the end of the year for the first time. Just before Wimbledon in 1979, Navratilova and Evert played possibly the highest scoring women's professional match ever in the Eastbourne final, which Evert edged 7â5, 5â7, 13-11 after facing match points herself. Show Less In April 1981, Evert defeated Navratilova in the finals of the Women's Tennis Association championships, held on clay at Amelia Island, 6â0, 6â0. … Read More It was Navratilova's only professional double bagel loss (one she later avenged with a crushing 6â2, 6â0 defeat of Evert in the finals of the same Amelia Island event in 1984). It was at this point that Navratilova began working with Nancy Lieberman to improve her fitness and toughen her mental approach to better compete with Evert and fulfil her true potential.

Read Less In 1981, Navratilova won her third major singles title by defeating Evert in the final of the Australian Open. … Read More Navratilova also defeated Evert to reach the final of the US Open, where she lost a third set tiebreak to Tracy Austin. Read Less Show Less Navratilova won both Wimbledon and the French Open in 1982. … Read More After adopting basketball player Nancy Lieberman's exercise plan and using Yonex isometric midsize graphite-fiberglass composite racquets, Navratilova became the most dominant player in women's tennis. After losing in the fourth round of the first major event of 1983, the French Open, she captured the year's three remaining major titles (the Australian Open was held in December at that time). Navratilova's loss at the French Open was her only singles defeat during that year, during which she established an 86â1 record. Her winning percentage was the best ever for a post-1968 professional tennis player.

Read Less During 1982, 1983, and 1984, Navratilova lost a total of only six singles matches. … Read More This included a run of 13 consecutive victories over her closest rival and world-ranked #2, Chris Evert. Read Less Navratilova's reign from 1982 to 1986 is the most dominant unbroken spell in the professional era. Show Less Navratilova won the 1984 French Open, thus holding all four major singles titles simultaneously. … Read More Her accomplishment was declared a "Grand Slam" by Philippe Chatrier, president of the International Tennis Federation, although some tennis observers countered that it was not a true slam because the titles had not been won in a single calendar year. Navratilova extended her major singles tournament winning streak to a record-equalling six following wins at Wimbledon and the US Open. Navratilova's victory meant she became the first player to win majors on clay, grass and hard court on the same year. Read Less She entered the 1984 Australian Open with a chance of winning all four titles in the same year.

… Read More In the semifinals, however, Helena SukovÃ¡ ended Navratilova's 74-match winning streak (a record for a professional) 1â6, 6â3, 7â5. Read Less A left-hander, Navratilova completed a calendar grand slam in women's doubles in 1984, partnering right-handed Pam Shriver, a tall and talented player whose most noted stroke was a slice forehand, a shot virtually unheard of in the game today. … Read More This was part of a record 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and 1985. (Navratilova was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s.) From 1985 through 1987, Navratilova reached the women's singles final at all 11 major tournaments held during those three years, winning six of them. From 1982 through 1990, she reached the Wimbledon final nine consecutive times.

She reached the US Open final five consecutive times from 1983 through 1987 and appeared in the French Open final five out of six years from 1982 through 1987. Read Less From 1984 to 1991, Navratilova had a long-term relationship with Judy Nelson, whom she met at a tournament in Fort Worth in 1982. Their split in 1991 included a much-publicized legal wrangle. … Read More Navratilova was featured in a WITA (Women's International Tennis Association) calendar, shot by Jean Renard with her Wimbledon trophies and Nelson's children in the background.<br /><br /> On September 6, 2014, Navratilova proposed to her longtime girlfriend Julia Lemigova at the US Open. Read Less THIRTIES Show Less Seventeen-year-old German player Steffi Graf emerged on the scene in 1987 when she narrowly beat Navratilova in the final of the French Open, 6â4, 4â6, 8â6.

Navratilova defeated Graf in straight sets in the 1987 Wimbledon and US Open finals (and at the US Open became only the third player in the open era to win the women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at the same event - the rare 'triple crown'). Navratilova reached all four Grand Slam finals in 1987, winning two of them. Graf's consistent play throughout 1987, however, allowed her to obtain the World No. 1 ranking before the end of the year. … Read More Graf eventually broke Navratilova's records of 156 consecutive weeks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player but fell 60 short of Navratilova's record of 167 singles titles. Including doubles, Navratilova won almost three times as many titles as Graf with a record doubles/mixed/singles combined total of 344 titles to Graf's 118.

Read Less 1988 - 1990 3 More Events 1988 31 Years Old In 1988, Graf won all four major singles titles, beating the 31-year-old Navratilova 5â7, 6â2, 6â1 in the Wimbledon final along the way, after recovering from a set and a break down. 1989 32 Years Old In 1989, Graf and Navratilova met in the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open, with Graf winning both encounters in three sets. … Read More Despite the 13 year age difference between the two players, and Graf's comparative lack of investment in doubles and mixed doubles, Navratilova won 9 of the 18 career singles matches with Graf and 5 of the 9 major singles matches with her.

At age 34, Navratilova defeated Graf the last time they played in a major in the semifinals of the 1991 US Open 7â6(2), 6â7(6), 6â4, to end their Grand Slam rivalry 5-4 up. It is worthy to note that all 4 of Graf's Grand Slam victories over Navratilova came in the finals of a Slam. This is reflected in the Grand Slams Finals chart below. Read Less 1990 33 Years Old Navratilova's final major singles triumph was in 1990. … Read More In the final, the 33-year-old Navratilova swept Zina Garrison 6â4, 6â1 to claim an all-time record ninth Wimbledon singles crown. Though that was her last major singles title, Navratilova reached two additional major singles finals during the remainder of career. Read Less 1991 34 Years Old In 1991, she lost in the US Open final to the new World No. 1 Monica Seles.

1994 37 Years Old And then in 1994, at the age of 37, Navratilova reached the Wimbledon final, where she lost in three sets to Conchita MartÃ­nez. … Read More Soon after, she retired from full-time competition on the singles tour. Read Less FORTIES She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2000, Navratilova returned to the tour to mostly play doubles events, while rarely also playing singles. 2002 45 Years Old In her first singles performance in eight years, at Eastbourne in 2002, she beat World No. 22 Tatiana Panova before losing in the next round to Daniela HantuchovÃ¡ in three sets. 2003 46 Years Old In 2003, she won the mixed doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, partnering Leander Paes. … Read More This made her the oldest ever major champion (aged 46 years, 8 months).

The Australian Open victory made her the third player in history to complete a "boxed set" of major titles by winning the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four majors. The Wimbledon win allowed her to equal Billie Jean King's record of 20 Wimbledon titles (in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles combined) and extended her overall number of major titles to 58 (second only to Margaret Court, who won 62). Read Less 2004 47 Years Old Despite being criticized for receiving a wildcard, Navratilova won a singles match over Catalina CastaÃ±o 6â0 6â1 at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and eight months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the open era. … Read More She then lost her second round match with Gisela Dulko in three sets. Read Less Show Less … Martina Navratilova (born Martina Å ubertovÃ¡ October 18, 1956) is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach.

Read Less In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005. … Read More Navratilova was World No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 weeks. She was year-end singles No. 1 seven times, including a record five consecutive years, as well as year-end doubles No. 1 five times, including three consecutive years during which she held the ranking for the entire year.<br /><br /> She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles, marking the open-era record for most Grand Slam titles.

She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times (surpassing Helen Wills Moody's eight Wimbledon titles), including a run of six consecutive titles â the best performance by any professional player at a major event. She and Billie Jean King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is one of just three women ever to have accomplished a Career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set"), a distinction she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. Read Less In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005, directly over Steffi Graf. Show Less … She is the only professional player to have won six major singles crowns without the loss of a set. Navratilova, Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive major singles titles (six).

Navratilova reached 11 consecutive major singles finals, second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13, and is the only woman ever to reach 19 consecutive major semi-finals. Navratilova also won the season-ending WTA Tour Championships for top ranked players a record eight times and made the finals a record 14 times. She is the only person of either sex to have won eight different tournaments at least seven times. She was ranked in the world's top 10 in singles for a record 20 consecutive years (1975-1994), a span which included 19 years in the top 5, 15 years in the top 3, and 7 years as the world No.1 ranked singles player. <br /><br />In women's doubles, Navratilova and Pam Shriver won 109 consecutive matches and won all four major titlesâthe Grand Slamâin 1984. The pair set an all-time record of 79 titles together and tied Louise Brough Clapp's and Margaret Osborne duPont's record of 20 major women's doubles titles as a team.

Navratilova also won the WTA Tour Championships doubles title a record 11 times. She is one of only five tennis players all-time to win a multiple slam set in two disciplines, matching Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Frank Sedgman and Serena Williams. Read Less Navratilova took her last major title in 2006, winning the mixed doubles crown at the 2006 US Open, just short of her 50th birthday â 32 years after her first Grand Slam title in 1974. … Read More Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency. At the time, Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovak Sports Federation that she was becoming too Americanized and that she should go back to school and make tennis secondary. Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981, and on January 9, 2008, she acquired Czech citizenship. She stated she has not renounced her U.S.

citizenship nor does she plan to do so and that acquiring her Czech citizenship was not politically motivated.<br /><br /> Navratilova was born Martina Å ubertovÃ¡ in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents divorced when she was three, and her mother, an accomplished gymnast, tennis player, and ski instructor, moved the family to Åevnice. Read Less A vegetarian, Navratilova appeared in ad campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In an April 2006 interview, however, she said she had recently begun eating fish again because she found it hard to get enough protein while on the road; which would make her a pescetarian rather than a vegetarian; nevertheless in 2008 she described herself as vegetarian. … Read More She has spoken out on a number of volatile political issues, including tort/litigation reform, but perhaps her most consistent themeâaside from gay and lesbian rightsâhas been her unstinting opposition to Communism, and unrelenting opposition to the former Eastern Bloc power structure that compelled her to flee her native Czechoslovakia.

She has denounced the Soviet Union's control over Czechoslovakia, maintaining that she refuses to speak Russian to this day because of the Soviet Union's former hegemony over Eastern Europe. "Whenever people go into politics and they try to say that Communism was a good thing, I say, 'Go ahead and live in a Communist country then, if you think it's so great.' " <br /><br /> Navratilova was a guest on CNN's Connie Chung Tonight show on July 17, 2002. During the show, Chung quoted a German newspaper which quoted Navratilova as saying: "The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another. The Republicans in the U.S. manipulate public opinion and sweep controversial issues under the table. It's depressing.

Decisions in America are based solely on the question of how much money will come out of it and not on the questions of how much health, morals or environment suffer as a result." Read Less On July 6, 2006, Navratilova played her last career match at Wimbledon, losing in the third round of mixed doubles to the eventual champions, Israel's Andy Ram and Russia's Vera Zvonareva. … Read More Earlier that day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, also the eventual champions. Read Less Navratilova capped off her career by winning the mixed doubles title at the 2006 US Open with Bob Bryan, her 41st major doubles title (31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles) and 177th overall. … Read More At the time, she was just over a month away from her 50th birthday.<br /><br /> Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the open era) and 177 doubles titles.

Read Less Her last title in women's doubles came on August 21, 2006, at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, where she partnered Nadia Petrova. … Read More Navratilova won 18 major singles titles: nine at Wimbledon, four at the US Open, three at the Australian Open, and two at the French Open. Her overall record in 67 major singles events was 306â49 .862 (120â14 at Wimbledon, 89â17 at the US Open, 51â11 at the French Open, and 46â7 at the Australian Open). Some observers argue that the very few singles matches she played in her forties should be counted separately in her career statistics. She is the only player to have won at least one tour event for 21 consecutive years and won the singles and doubles at the same event a record 84 times. She was ranked in the world top 3 in singles for 15 years between 1977 and 1993.

Her career singles match win total of 1,442 is the most during the open era. Read Less … Evert said that "Martina revolutionized the game by her superb athleticism and aggressiveness She brought athleticism to a whole new level with her training techniques â particularly cross-training, the idea that you could go to the gym or play basketball to get in shape for tennis." <br /><br />In December 2014, it was announced that Navratilova had joined Agnieszka RadwaÅska's coaching staff. However, in April 2015, after RadwaÅska struggled in the first half of the season, the pair decided to part ways. <br /><br />In 1985, Navratilova released an autobiography, co-written with The New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey, titled Martina in the U.S. and Being Myself in the rest of the world. She had earlier co-written a tennis instruction book with Mary Carillo in 1982, entitled Tennis My Way.

She later wrote three mystery novels with Liz Nickles: The Total Zone (1994), Breaking Point (1996), and Killer Instinct (1997). Read Less Navratilova's most recent literary effort was a health and fitness book entitled Shape Your Self, which came out in 2006. … Read More In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen, Navratilova gave an interview to New York Daily News sports reporter Steve Goldstein, coming out as bisexual and revealing that she had a sexual relationship with Rita Mae Brown, but asked him not to publish the article until she was ready to come out publicly. However, the New York Daily News published the article on July 30, 1981. Navratilova and Nancy Lieberman, her girlfriend at the time, gave an interview to Dallas Morning News columnist Skip Bayless, where Navratilova reiterated that she was bisexual and Lieberman identified herself as straight. Navratilova has since identified herself as a lesbian. Read Less Billie Jean King, a former World No.

1 player, said in 2006 that Navratilova is "the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived." … Read More In 2008, tennis historian and journalist Bud Collins called Navratilova "arguably, the greatest player of all time." Read Less In 2006, Martina Navratilova was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the LGBT History Month. … Read More Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century (1999), named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Graf. Read Less FIFTIES 2007 - 2012 4 More Events 2007 50 Years Old Navratilova was quoted in 2007 as being ashamed of the US under President George W. Bush because unlike the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, Bush was elected. … Read More By winning the 1983 US Open title, Navratilova completed the Career Grand Slam. She became only the seventh female player in history to achieve this.

Read Less 2008 51 Years Old In 2008, Navratilova's mother died of emphysema, aged 75. 2011 54 Years Old In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time. 2012 55 Years Old In March 2012, The Tennis Channel named Navratilova as the second greatest female tennis player of all times, behind Steffi Graf, in their list of 100 greatest tennis players of all times. 2013 56 Years Old On August 2, 2013, Navratilova was among the first class of inductees into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. 2014 57 Years Old They married in New York on December 15, 2014. … Read More On April 7, 2010, Navratilova announced that she was being treated for breast cancer.

A routine mammogram in January 2010 revealed that she had a ductal carcinoma in situ in her left breast, which she was informed of on February 24, and in March she had the tumour surgically removed; she received radiation therapy in May.<br /><br /> In December 2010, Navratilova was hospitalized after developing high altitude pulmonary edema while attempting a climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.<br /><br /> When not playing tennis, Navratilova is involved with various charities that benefit animal rights, underprivileged children, and gay rights. She participated in a lawsuit against Amendment 2, a successful 1992 ballot proposition in Colorado designed to prevent sexual orientation from being a protected class. In 1993, she spoke before the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. She also serves as the Health and Fitness Ambassador for AARP in an alliance created to help AARP's millions of members lead active, healthy lives.

Read Less 2016 59 Years Old On 12 May 2016, Navratilova was made an honorary fellow of Lucy Cavendish College of the University of Cambridge. … Read More In 1996, Navratilova was featured with American football player Art Monk in an endorsement for PowerBook in an ad series "What's on Your PowerBook?" In November 2008, Martina Navratilova appeared on the UK's ITV series Series 8 of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!; she finished runner-up to Joe Swash. In February 2012 Navratilova was announced as a cast member on the 14th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Tony Dovolani, but they were the first pair eliminated. Navratilova guest-starred as a dissatisfied Yelp reviewer in episode three of the third season of absurdist comedy Portlandia. Read Less Original Authors of this text are noted on .

Martina Navratilova, Champion Tennis Player | MAKERS Video Champion Tennis Player Groundbreakers Sports In this interview, champion tennis player Martina Navratilova talks about her life in Communist Czechoslovakia, her heartbreaking choice to defect to the United States where she became a target of criticism brought on by her outspoken attitude, and her unstoppable drive to become the best tennis player. Martina's Biography Athletic Upbringing:"On the weekends, we would go either for a walk, or a hike, or swim in the river, or even go cross-country skiing in the winter. I rode my bike around town everywhere or I ran to the tennis or to school. I was always running or walking very fast." Grandma On The Court:Martina's grandmother was a ranked player in Czechoslovakia. Train, Run, Tram, Run:With no car, getting to tennis practice with no small feat. She had to "run to the train station with my tennis gear and my school gear…get on another train all the way to Prague...then go on a tram…then a bus…then walk, play tennis, and reverse.

So I was in great shape just to get to the tennis court." Domestically Skill or Challenged:"Domestically skilled surprisingly enough." Martina Navratilova is a tennis legend. Born and raised in Communist Czechoslovakia, she defected to the United States at 18 years old, leaving her family behind in order to pursue her career without the bounds of the government's restrictions on when and where she was allowed to play. Once in the States, Navratilova was faced with the media's negative reaction to her outspoken, confident nature, as well as the complexities of being a gay woman, which meant losing sponsorships. Still, Navratilova dominated. Arguably the best tennis player to ever step on the court, she amassed an unmatched number of professional records over the course of a career that spanned an amazing four decades. She has won 59 Grand Slam crowns, a record 9 Wimbledon singles champions. As she says, "The ball doesn't know how old I am," so even when Navratilova retired in 1994, she continued to play doubles until 2006. She was 50 years old.

As one of the first openly gay sports figures, Navratilova has been a vocal advocate for equal rights and a strong supporter of many charities benefitting the LGBT community. She has received numerous awards from many of the most influential organizations within the LGBT community. Players | WTA Tennis English Career Highlights Martina Navratilova Biography Physical trainer is Lisa Austin ... Supports numerous non-profit groups and charitable causes; contributes to scholarship funds for needy children and with friendly rival Chris Evert competed in many exhibition matches to fund charities; contributed $150,000 in 1986 to the Women's Sports Foundation to support development of sports for women; taped ads for the Statue of Liberty Commemorative Coins in the summer of 1986, in conjunction with that restoration project in her adopted homeland; also supports Ms. Foundation, Planned Parenthood and PETA ... Released autobiography 'Martina' in June 1985 ... Enjoys skiing, snowboarding, golf, basketball and horseback riding ... Avid reader of classics; also enjoys classical music and Katharine Hepburn films ...

Co-wrote three mystery novels: The Total Zone was published in 1995, Breaking Point was published in 1996, Killer Instinct came out in 1998 ... Participated in the creation of The Rainbow Card, a Visa credit card targeted to the lesbian and gay community; volunteers as a spokesperson for the Rainbow Card Foundation, a not-for-profit dedicated to raising and distributing funds to national gay and lesbian health care, education, cultural and civil rights groups ... Wrote a book entitled 'Shape Your Self'. 1 FEBRUARY - Consecutive 1r losses in doubles at Dubai and Doha (both w/L.Huber; first events of season). MARCH - Reached final at Tier I Miami (as No.7 seeds w/L.Huber, fell to top seeds Raymond/Stosur). MAY - Fell 1r at Warsaw (w/L.Huber); as top seeds w/Strycova, upset in 2r at Prague (l.

to Harkleroad/Mattek); was first Tour event in former homeland in 20 years, since 1986 Fed Cup; fell in opening match in Rome (w/L.Huber); captured 176th career Tour doubles title (and first of season) at Strasbourg (as top seeds w/L.Huber); at Roland Garros, upset in 2r of doubles (as No.7 seeds w/Huber) but reached mixed doubles SF (as No.6 seeds w/B.Bryan, l. to No.7 seeds Likhovtseva/Nestor). JUNE - Doubles runner-up at Eastbourne (as No.4 seeds w/Huber, upset top seeds Raymond/Stosur in SF before falling to Kuznetsova/Mauresmo); at Wimbledon, fell in doubles QF (w/Huber) and in mixed doubles 3r (w/Knowles); had announced was ultimate Wimbledon appearance earlier in fortnight.

AUGUST - Won 177th career Tour doubles title at Montreal (as unseeded, first-time pairing w/Petrova, upset top seeds Yan/Zheng in QF and No.2 seeds Black/Groenefeld in final); impressive showing in last event of career at US Open, reaching doubles QF (as No.10 seeds w/Petrova, fell to top seeds, defending champions Raymond/Stosur 76(1) 63, having trailed 5-2 first set) and capturing 10th career Grand Slam mixed doubles title (w/B.Bryan; d. Peschke/Damm in final); finished career on winning note with 354th professional title. - Won 18 Grand Slam titles, including all-time record 9 at Wimbledon (also 4 US Opens, 3 Australian Opens and 2 French Opens); completed career Grand Slam at 1983 US Open (held all four Grand Slams at same time when winning 1984 French Open ); fell two matches short of completing calendar-year Grand Slam in 1984 (l.

to Sukova in SFs of Australian Open ); won 6 straight Grand Slam titles in 1983/84 (equalled record of Connolly & Court). - Won 31 Grand Slam doubles titles and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. - 1 of 3 women to win singles, doubles and mixed at least once at every Grand Slam (also Court & Hart); won all three titles at 1987 US Open . - 167 singles titles and 177 doubles titles are all-time records for any player, male or female; also swept singles and doubles at same events a record 84 times. - Rose to No.1 on July 10, 1978 after winning first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon (332 weeks at No.1 is second all-time to Graf). - Was also first player to rank No.1 in singles and doubles at the same time (in 1984). - Posted best season winning percentage in Open Era in 1983 (.989... 86-1). - Owns longest winning streaks of Open Era in singles (74) and doubles (109 w/Shriver).

- Went 20-0 in Fed Cup singles and 20-1 in Fed Cup doubles (lost last match she played). - Played WTA Championships a record 21 times (won 8 singles and 11 doubles titles). - Retired from singles at end of 1994; played doubles and mixed in 1995-96; did not play 1997-99; played doubles again 2000-06 as well as 7 singles events in 2002-05, and at 2004 Wimbledon became oldest woman to win a singles match in Open Era (47 years, 8 months); played final match of career in 2006 US Open mixed doubles final (became oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title, a month short of 50th birthday - won w/B.Bryan).

SINGLES Winner (167): 1994 - Paris [Indoors]; 1993 - Tokyo [Pan Pacific], Paris [Indoors], Eastbourne, Los Angeles, Oakland; 1992 - Chicago, US Hardcourts, Los Angeles, Filderstadt; 1991 - Chicago, Palm Springs, Birmingham, Eastbourne, Oakland; 1990 - Wimbledon , Chicago, Washington DC, Indian Wells, Hilton Head, Eastbourne; 1989 - Los Angeles, Dallas, New England, Sydney, Tokyo [Pan Pacific], Birmingham, Eastbourne, Canadian Open; 1988 - Dallas, Oakland, Washington DC, New England, Chicago, Hilton Head, Amelia Island, Eastbourne, Filderstadt; 1987 - Wimbledon , US Open , Filderstadt, Chicago; 1986 - Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships [March], WTA Championships [November], Eastbourne, Washington DC, Filderstadt, US Indoors, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New England [January], New England [November]; 1985 - Australian Open , Wimbledon , WTA Championships, Miami

, Eastbourne, Sydney, Washington DC, Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Brisbane; 1984 - Roland Garros , Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships, Amelia Island, Eastbourne, US Indoors, Sydney, Orlando, Newport, Mahwah, Fort Lauderdale, New Orleans; 1983 - Australian Open , Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships, Eastbourne, Canadian Open, Tampa, Filderstadt, Tokyo [Lions Cup], Hilton Head, Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Los Angeles; 1982 - Roland Garros , Wimbledon , Toyota Championships, Eastbourne, Canadian Open, Filderstadt, Washington DC, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, Sydney, Hilton Head, Orlando, Brighton; 1981 - Australian Open , WTA Championships, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, US Indoors, Tampa, Tokyo [Lions Cup]; 1980 - Colgate Series Championships, Kansas City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Dallas, Amelia Island, Orlando, Canadian Open, Richmond, Tokyo; 1979 - Wimbledon , WTA Championships, Oakland, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Richmond

, Atlanta, Phoenix, Brighton; 1978 - Wimbledon , WTA Championships, Washington DC, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Detroit, Kansas City, Eastbourne, Phoenix; 1977 - Washington DC, Houston, Minnesota, Detroit, Edinburgh, Charlotte; 1976 - Houston, Sydney; 1975 - Washington DC, Boston, Denver, Charlotte; 1974 - Orlando.

DOUBLES Winner (177): 2006 - Strasbourg (w/Huber), Montréal (w/Petrova); 2005 - Toronto (w/Groenefeld); 2004 - Vienna (w/Raymond); 2003 - Gold Coast, Dubai, Rome, Toronto, Leipzig (all w/Kuznetsova), Sarasota (w/Huber), Philadelphia (w/Raymond); 2002 - Madrid (w/Zvereva); 1994 - Houston, Zürich (both w/Bollegraf); 1993 - Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (w/Sukova), Birmingham (w/McNeil), Zürich (w/Garrison); 1992 - Chicago, US Hardcourts (both w/Shriver); 1991 - WTA Championships (w/Shriver), Barcelona (w/Sánchez-Vicario), Filderstadt (w/Novotna); 1990 - US Open , Hamburg (both w/G.Fernandez), Chicago (w/Smith), Washington DC (w/Garrison), Hilton Head (w/Sánchez-Vicario); 19

89 - Australian Open , WTA Championships, New England, Sydney (all w/Shriver), US Open , Hilton Head (both w/Mandlikova), Los Angeles (w/Turnbull); 1988 - Australian Open , Roland Garros , WTA Championships, New England, Washington DC (all w/Shriver), Oakland (w/Casals), Hilton Head (w/McNeil), Filderstadt (w/Kuczynska); 1987 - Australian Open , Roland Garros , US Open , WTA Championships, Miami, Los Angeles, Filderstadt (all w/Shriver), Rome (w/Sabatini), Houston (w/Jordan); 1986 - Roland Garros , Marco Island (both w/Temesvari), Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships [Nov], Washington DC, New England [Jan], Eastbourne, Los Angeles, Filderstadt, New England [Nov] (all w/Shriver); 1985 - Australian Open , Roland Garros , WTA Championships [March], US Indoors, Orlando, Eastbourne, Brisbane (all w/Shriver), Miami, Washington DC, Canadian Open (all w/G.Fernandez), Houston (w/B

urgin); 1984 - Australian Open , Roland Garros , Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships [March], Oakland, US Indoors, Eastbourne, Mahwah, New Orleans, Brisbane (all w/Shriver), Fort Lauderdale (w/Smylie); 1983 - Australian Open , Wimbledon , US Open , WTA Championships, Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Eastbourne, Los Angeles, Tampa (all w/Shriver), Hilton Head, Stuttgart (both w/Reynolds); 1982 - Australian Open , Wimbledon , Avon Circuit Championships, Toyota Circuit Championships, Chicago, Dallas, Hilton Head, Bridgestone, Eastbourne, Stuttgart, Brighton, Sydney (all w/Shriver), Roland Garros (w/Smith), Canadian Open (w/Reynolds); 1981 - Wimbledon , Avon Circuit Championships, Toyota Circuit Championships, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Eastbourne, Canadian Open, US Indoors, Sydney (all w/Shriver), Stuttgart (w/Jausovec); 1980 - Australian Open (w/Nagelsen), US Open , Avon Championships, Washington DC, Kansas City, Chicago, Dallas, Bridgestone, Richmond

 (all w/King), Los Angeles (w/Casals), Mahwah (w/Reynolds); 1979 - Wimbledon , US Indoors, Stuttgart (all w/King), Houston (w/Newberry), Dallas (w/Smith), Hilton Head, San Diego (both w/Casals); 1978 - US Open , Washington DC, Houston, Detroit, Kansas City, Bridgestone, Boston, Hilton Head, Palm Springs (all w/King), Dallas, Clearwater (both w/Smith); 1977 - US Open , Washington DC, Hollywood, Houston, Detroit, Dallas, Bridgestone, Charlotte, Atlanta (all w/Stove), Bloomington (w/Casals), Phoenix (w/King); 1976 - Wimbledon , Palm Springs (both w/Evert), Sarasota, Bridgestone, Charlotte, Atlanta, Sydney (all w/Stove), Phoenix (w/King); 1975 - Roland Garros , Chicago, Rome (all w/Evert), Detroit (w/Hunt); 1974 - Dallas (w/I.Fernandez).

MIXED DOUBLES Martina Navratilova | American tennis player | Britannica.com American tennis player Martina Navratilova, (born October 18, 1956, Prague , Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]), Czech-born American tennis player, who dominated women’s tennis in the late 1970s and the ’80s. Martina Navratilova after winning the Wimbledon championship, 1984. Allsport/Getty Images Navratilova played in her first tennis tournament at eight years of age. A left-handed player who ranked number one in Czechoslovakia from 1972 to 1975, she won international notice when she led her team to victory in the 1975 Federation Cup . In that year she went into exile in the United States; she became a U.S. citizen in 1981. From 1975 Navratilova was consistently one of the top five women tennis players. She made her first claim to the number-one position in 1978, after winning the Virginia Slims championship and the Wimbledon women’s singles final.

In 1979 she again won the Wimbledon women’s singles as well as the women’s doubles and was ranked the undisputed top player. In 1982 Navratilova won 90 of 93 matches, including 41 consecutive matches, and 15 tournaments, notably the Wimbledon women’s singles and the French Open women’s singles. The following year she won 86 of 87 matches, the U.S. Open women’s singles, the Wimbledon women’s singles, and the Australian Open women’s singles. Beginning with the 1983 Wimbledon title, she won six consecutive Grand Slam women’s singles titles. The 1980s also marked the height of her friendly rivalry with Chris Evert . Navratilova pitted her serve-and-volley game against Evert’s baseline style in 80 matches, winning 43 of them. In 1986 at Filderstadt, West Germany , she became the second player in modern tennis to win 1,000 matches. Martina Navratilova competing in the 1986 Wimbledon Championships.

Leo Mason By 1990 Navratilova had won the women’s singles championships of the French Open twice (1982, 1984), the Australian Open three times (1981, 1983, 1985), the U.S. Open four times (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987), and Wimbledon a record nine times (1978, 1979, 1982–87, 1990). In 1987, along with her singles championship, she won both the women’s doubles and the mixed doubles to become the first triple-crown champion at the U.S. Open since 1970. On winning her 158th title in 1992 in Chicago, Navratilova had accumulated more championships than any other player, male or female, in the history of tennis. She retired from singles play after the 1994 season, having won 167 titles in all. Britannica Stories

Question: In which city was tennis player Martina Navratilova born?
Answer: Prague