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Martina Navratilova: Leander Paes
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"Well, for this little kid from India, it was a dream to be on Centre Court & for me to be out on Centre Court with a true legend of our sport Martina Navratilova is a dream come true," Paes said. "Thank you Martina for letting me be your vehicle to greatness."
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If Martina Navratilova’s parents had remained married past her third birthday, perhaps the inimitable athlete would now be a world famous skier--at two, she was already able to negotiate a snowy slope. But for Martina, the divorce meant leaving the family’s mountainside ski lodge for her mother’s childhood home near Prague.
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Navratilova was born Martina Šubertová in 1956. Her parents divorced when she was three, and in 1962 her mother Jana married Miroslav Navrátil, who became her first tennis coach. Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix "ová")... becoming Martina Navrátilová (pronounced
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Martina had a relationship with with lesbian bestselling author, Rita Mae Brown. When pressed, she came finally out as bisexual in 1980. She paid a price. Although she was one of the greatest players to play the game, she did not receive the sponosorships one would have expected.
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"I think I'm going to have to take another piece of the grass on the way out," Navratilova said. "I took one in 1994, and I think it's time for another patch."
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