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Martina Navratilova: French Open
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An exceptionally strong left-hander who operated from the baseline, Navratilova won the official women's tour and the Wimbledon championship in 1978 and again in 1979, when she finished the year as the world's top-ranked women's tennis player. From 1982 to 1987 she held the top ranking for all but 22 weeks of a 282-week stretch. She dominated Wimbledon from 1982 to 1987, winning six consecutive singles titles, and won again in 1990; she won the US Open singles championship four times (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987). Her other major singles titles include the French Open (1982, 1984) and the Australian Open (1981, 1983, 1985). Navratilova ... won fame for her doubles play, winning ten US Open, eight Australian Open, seven French Open, and six Wimbledon titles with various partners.
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On July 5, 2006, Navratilova announced that Wimbledon 2006 would be her last and by the end of the 2006 season, she would retire from doubles play. On July 6, 2006, Navratilova played her last ever match at Wimbledon, losing in the mixed doubles to the titleists, Israel's Andy Ram and Russia's Vera Zvonareva, in the third round. Earlier on the same day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Zi Yan and Jie Zheng... the titleists. Navratilova capped off her career by winning the mixed doubles title at the 2006 U.S. Open with Bob Bryan, her 41st Grand Slam doubles title (31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles) and 177th overall. At the time, she was just over a month away from her 50th birthday. The only Grand Slam mixed doubles title that eluded her since her return was the French Open.
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Navratilova’s first on-air duties will take place during the 2008 Australian Open Jan. 14-27, when she joins network anchor/producer Bill Macatee – himself a major component of Tennis Channel’s 2007 French Open activity – as one of two primary commentators. Tennis Channel’s first Australian Open telecast takes place prime time, Monday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. ET, the beginning of 30 hours of live or first-run match telecasts this year. The network will show a prime-time block of live matches almost every night of the two-week tournament, in addition to special replays of the men’s and women’s singles semifinals and finals (initially on ESPN2).
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NEW YORK -- Chapter Two of Martina Navratilova's career ended here Saturday night with a U.S. Open mixed doubles championship, making her one of the few great athletes in history to go out with a win. She just had to retire twice to do it.
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In 2004 Navratilova became the oldest woman in 82 years to win a singles match at Wimbledon, although she lost in the second round of the tournament. The same year she played in the Olympic Games for the first time, becoming the oldest tennis player in the competition’s history and reaching the doubles quarterfinals in Athens, Greece; captured her 174th doubles tournament title; and advanced to the doubles semifinals at the French Open and Wimbledon. Navratilova concluded her career at the 2006 U.S. Open with victory in the mixed doubles—her 59th major title.
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Tennis Channel, the 24-hour network dedicated to tennis, is providing live French Open coverage for the first time; Martina is the lead on-air analyst, together with John McEnroe. Have a look at the Tennis Channel official website to read Martina's blog from Paris!
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