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Martina Navratilova
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Martina Navratilova was a fearsome presence on the tennis court for 20 years. Navratilova's records are numerous. She has won more singles and doubles tournaments than any other woman, but she was forced to defect from her homeland to the US in order to do. She defected to the United States at the 1975 US Open, shortly before her 19th birthday. Navratilova felt she had to defect in order to develop as a tennis player and as a person, but the decision was a painful one. Follow her amazing story from her early tennis playing days, her constant hounding by the press and her rise to be the greatest tennis player of her day.
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Martina Navratilova, with her record 9 Wimbledon singles titles and 58 Grand Slam titles, is the best female tennis player of the modern era, and possibly the greatest in the history of the sport. In January 2003, she won the Australian Open mixed doubles title with Leander Paes, making her, at age 46, the oldest winner, male or female, of a Grand Slam title. She ... won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2003, tying a record 20 Wimbledon titles held by Billie Jean King.
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Tennis icon Martina Navratilova has condemned hormone-altering experiments on "gay sheep" at Oregon State University and Oregon Health and Science University. The research seeks to manipulate the sheep's sexual preferences and make them heterosexual. The tests are funded by taxpayers through the yea
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Martina Navratilova has her 1979 Wimbledon hardware back, having worked out a deal with the collector that put the items up for sale without her knowledge on an online auction site earlier this year. The nine-time Wimbledon singles champ took legal action and later recovered the items in exchange for clothing and rackets.
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The dominant women's tennis player of her time, Martina Navratilova won every Grand Slam singles title at least twice: Wimbledon (a record nine times), the Australian Open (three), the French Open (two) and the U.S. Open (four). Left-handed, sinewy and athletic, she helped bring a new era of power into the traditionally more finesse-minded women's game. Her many matches with former world #1 Chris Evert were particularly famous (with young Tracy Austin in the mix, 1979-81). Navratilova retired from professional tennis in 1994, but in 2000 returned to occasional action in mixed doubles and then women's doubles. By winning the mixed doubles title at the 2003 Australian Open (with Leander Paes of India) she became the first player since Margaret Court to win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four grand slam tournaments.
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As the game's most prolific winner of the open era--probably ever--Martina Navratilova, the puissant left-hander, continues to add to her record totals. Yet dabbling in doubles--she won the Wimbledon mixed in 1995 with Jonathan Stark--Marvelous Martina retired from singles at the 1994 year-end WTA Championships at Madison Square Garden in an opening-round defeat by Gabriela Sabatini, 6-4, 6-2. Thousands cheered and wept saying goodbye and thanks for the memories. She had done so much in New York, winning that prime championship eight times in singles (five times runner-up), 10 times in doubles, plus four singles and 11 doubles titles across the East River at the U.S. Open.
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