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Martina
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Tennis player Martina Navratilova was
born on October 18, 1956 in Prague (Czech Republic). Her biological father
committed suicide when she was very small and she was raised by her stepfather,
Mirek Navratil, and her mother. Her grandmother was a tennis player and her
parents were tennis managers for the Czechoslovakian government. Although she
was practising many sports as the soccer, the ski or the hockey, finally she was
praised for being a tennis player. She took part in her first tournament
with 8 years, and to the 14 she won the first national tournament. With only 16
years, in 1972, she was proclaimed champion of Czechoslovakia, and won the
Tournament of Wimbledon in junior category one year later. In 1973 she happened
to be a professional player and came to the quarter finals of her first Grand
Slam. In 1975 she left to live to the United States. She conquered several
qualifications of doubles forming couple with the tennis player Chris Evert,
winning later the doubles of Wimbledon Tournament. Chris Evert would be her big
rival of the epoch. From 1978 she turned into the best player of the circuit,
winning for two consecutive years Wimbledon in individual and leading Women
Tennis Association (WTA). Between her achievements she won nine times Wimbledon,
four the US Open, two Roland Garros and three the Australian Open. In doubles
she obtained a big number of victories too. In 1980 she announced publicly that
she was bisexual because the mass media had done to themselves echo of
her relation with Rita Mae Brown. Her sincerity made her lose the
principal sponsors. In 1981 she was naturalized American by problems with the
Czechoslovakian Federation of Tennis. Two years later she began a relation with
Judy Nelson, being her separation a big scandal in the media due to the
economic requests of her couple. In 1992 she beat the record of professional
qualifications, 158; in February she beat other: to be the player of major age
to win the number one Monica Seles. She moved back in 1994, with a whole of
167 titles to her backs. In 2000 she reappeared to take part in tournaments
of exhibition and in competitions of doubles and compounds. In 2000 Navratilova
was included in the Lounge of the Reputation of the International Tennis of
Newport (Rhode Island, the USA). In 2003 she returned to the courts and gained
the Australian Open and Wimbledon in the category of mixed doubles, turning into
one of three only tennis players in winning all the possible qualifications and
in the most veteran-46 years - in obtaining it. Although Martina in the
beginning declared herself bisexual to avoid problems with the authorities,
later she confirmed that she was lesbian. She collaborates actively in
organizations of defense of the rights of the homosexual ones and has faced even
the American politicians. She says that she feels annoying because they identify
her as the "homosexual tennis player" or the "lesbian tennis player", since to
be a famous tennis player is a merit but to be a lesbian not.
Individual victories of Martina Navratilova in
Grand Slams
YEAR TOURNAMENT RIVAL
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1978 Wimbledon Chris Evert
1979 Wimbledon Chris Evert
1981 Australian Open Chris Evert
1982 Roland Garros Andrea Jaeger
1982 Wimbledon Chris Evert
1983 Wimbledon Andrea Jaeger
1983 US Open Chris Evert
1983 Australian Open Kathy Jordan
1984 Roland Garros Chris Evert
1984 Wimbledon Chris Evert
1984 US Open Chris Evert
1985 Wimbledon Chris Evert
1985 Australian Open Chris Evert
1986 Wimbledon Hana Mandlikova
1986 US Open Helena Sukova
1987 Wimbledon Steffi Graf
1987 US Open Steffi Graf
1990 Wimbledon Zina Garrison
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