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Martina Navratilova: Wimbledon Champion
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Location: Los Angeles, CA - Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is no stranger to community activism, but this year, as she turns 51, she has set her sights on helping the older generation. Early last month the nine time Wimbledon Champion was assigned a position as health and fitness ambassador for the AARP.
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Thirty years after she first played here, Martina Navratilova won the mixed doubles title with Leander Paes on Sunday. With the title, Navratilova ties Billie Jean King for the record of 20 titles at Wimbledon. Coincidentally, King earned that 20th title with Navratilova in doubles in 1979.
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A champion on and off the court, Martina Navratilova is not only a tennis legend, but an inspirational leader who demonstrates wit, candor and sheer motivation. Arguably the best tennis player ever to play the game, Martina has amassed an unmatched number of professional records during a career that spanned an amazing four decades, while proving herself to be one of the most intriguing, outspoken and respected figures of the 20th century – and now the 21st century.
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Navratilova continued to play singles tennis despite constant retirement rumors. In 1992 she won her one hundred and fifty-eighth professional tennis title. With this win, Navratilova broke the record for more tennis titles than any other man or woman. Playing with Jonathan Stark, the pair won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1995. A second attempt at a mixed doubles title at Wimbledon was squelched by a loss to Lindsay Davenport and Grant Connell in 1996. Reporters continue to ask Navratilova what her plans are and if she will return for another match.
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Navratilova and Evert’s ability to forge and maintain a friendship during sixteen years of often-cutthroat competition has always provoked wonder and admiration. They were a study in contrasts, a collision of politics and style and looks. Chris was the crowd darling while Martina, her greatest foil, was often cast as the villain. Chris was the imperturbable champion who proved toughness and femininity weren’t mutually exclusive; Martina was portrayed as both emotionally fragile and some fearsome Amazon. Chris’s off-court life was presumed to be bedrock solid, the stuff of Main Street America; Martina’s was derided as outrageous and sometimes chaotic, even during her invincible years. Yet, through it all, the two remained friends who lifted each other to heights that each says she couldn’t have reached without the other.
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Excerpt: Martina Navratilova, the former tennis champion, said yesterday that she had regained her Czech citizenship more than 30 years after fleeing Communism to live in America. "I lost it at the time I defected.
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