Martina Navratilova
Country United States
Housing Nokomis, Florida, USA
DoB. 18 October 1956 (54 years)
Place of birth. Prague, Czech Republic
Height 1.73 m
Weight 65 kg
Professionalization 1975
Abandonment 2006
Left hand, right hand to a
Prize Money U.S. $ 21,626,089
Simple
Career record: 1442-219
Securities 167 (record)
Highest ranking: No. 1 (July 10, 1978)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open V (1981, 1983, 1985)
V Open de France (1982, 1984)
Wimbledon V (1978, 1979, 1982 and 1987, 1990)
U. S. Open V (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987)
Major tournaments
V WTA Championships (1978, 1979, 1981, 1983 to 1986)
Doubles
Career record: 747-143
Securities 177 (record)
Highest ranking: No. 1 (September 10, 1984)
Results of Grand Slam Doubles
Australian Open V (1980, 1982-1985, 1987-1989)
V Open de France (1975, 1982, 1984 to 1988)
Wimbledon V (1976, 1979, from 1981 to 1984, 1986)
V U.S. Open (1977, 78, 80, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90)
Major doubles tournaments
V WTA Championships (1980, 1981 and 1989, 1991)
Last Updated: November 7, 2010.
Paraguayan Seal of 1986.Martina Navrátilová (Prague, 18 October 1956) is a former Czech tennis player naturalized American in 1981.
Experts say that in tennis, for his charismatic personality, determined and contested, ousted the French mythological Martina Suzanne Lenglen, who shone in the 20s.
After being eliminated by Chris Evert, his biggest rival and friend on the circuit in the semis of U.S. Open 1975, she applied for asylum in the United States, starting a complicated naturalization process that lasted six years. From 1981 to 1983, Martina hired for their technical transsexual tennis player Renee Richards, who was Richard Raskind to undergo a sex change operation.
At the height of his career during the '80s, he served Navratilova approximately 180 km / h speed achieved only after several years, for players who make use of new training methods and modern generation of snowshoes.
Officially abandoned the tour in November 1994 at age 38, as the most successful and award-winning tennis player of all time. His last singles match was played at Madison Square Garden in New York when he lost to Argentina's Gabriela Sabatini 6-4, 6-2, in the Virginia Slims Championships tournament, the Masters Female.
Navratilova remained on the circuit playing doubles matches by the year 2006, when he finally left the court after the title of U.S. Open mixed doubles won alongside his compatriot Bob Bryan, when they won the final Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm, Czech Republic , by a score of 6-2, 6-3.
Navratilova is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame since 2000.