martina navratilova

     

This oldest tennis player ever to win a Grand Slam title did so at the Australian Open mixed doubles in 2003

Trivia about martina navratilova

  • This Czech-born tennis star was the world's No. 1 ranked women's player 7 times, 1978-79 & 1982-86
  • Appropriately, Swiss teenage tennis star Martina Hingis was named for this woman
  • From 1982-87, she held the top rank in tennis for all but 22 weeks of a 270-week stretch
  • With 167 since 1968, she holds the record for most singles tennis titles
  • On Tennis magazine's list of the 40 greatest players from 1965 to 2005, she's the top female player
  • She has won more prize money than any tennis player in history, man or woman
  • This tennis star seen here was ranked in the WTA Top 10 for 20 straight years from 1975 to 1994
  • She was the No. 1 ranked player in Czechoslovakia 1972-75
  • In 2004 this tennis great, at 47, became the oldest tennis competitor in Olympic history
  • Between 1973 & 2006 this Czech-American appeared in 326 Wimbledon matches, the most of any player, male or female
  • This tennis player is the "Iron Maiden" & "Tini Linguini"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island) She won the first of 9 Wimbledon singles trophies in 1978, 3 years after defecting from Czechoslovakia
  • "Czech" out her tennis mysteries like "Killer Instinct" & "The Total Zone" by this former champ
  • This Czech-born woman who retired in 2006 won a record 9 Wimbledon Singles Championships
  • She retired in 1994 with career earnings of over $20 million, a figure then exceeded by only Ivan Lendl

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