- Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach
- In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005
| Born: | 18 October 1956 Comment | | How old is Martina Navratilova in 2023? / Age: | 66 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Libra |
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Who is Martina Navratilova? / Facts
- Navratilova was World No. 1 for a total of 332 weeks in singles, and a record 237 weeks in doubles, making her the only player in history to have held the top spot in both singles and doubles for over 200 weeks
- She was year-end singles No. 1 seven times, including a record five consecutive years, as well as year-end doubles No. 1 five times, including three consecutive years during which she held the ranking for the entire year
- She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles, marking the open-era record for most Grand Slam titles
- She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times (surpassing Helen Wills Moody's eight Wimbledon titles), including a run of six consecutive titles – the best performance by any professional player at a major event
- She and Billie Jean King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record
- Navratilova is one of just three women ever to have accomplished a Career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set"), a distinction she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart
- Navratilova holds the records for most singles titles (167) and for most doubles titles (177) in the open era
- Her record as No. 1 in singles (1982–86) is the most dominant in professional tennis
- Over five consecutive seasons, she won 428 of 442 singles matches, averaging fewer than 3 losses per year to 87 wins, for a sustained winning percentage of 96.8%
- She holds the best season win-loss record for the open era, 86-1 (98.9%) in 1983, and four of the top six open era seasons
- She recorded the longest winning streak in the open era (74 consecutive matches) and three of the six longest winning streaks
- She is the only professional player to have won six major singles crowns without the loss of a set
- Navratilova, Margaret Court and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive major singles titles (six)
- Navratilova reached 11 consecutive major singles finals, second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13, and is the only woman ever to reach 19 consecutive major semi-finals
- Navratilova also won the season-ending WTA Tour Championships for top ranked players a record eight times and made the finals a record 14 times
- She is the only person of either sex to have won eight different tournaments at least seven times
- She was ranked in the world's top 10 in singles for a record 20 consecutive years (1975-1994), a span which included 19 years in the top 5, 15 years in the top 3, and 7 years as the world No. 1 ranked singles player
- In women's doubles, Navratilova and Pam Shriver won 109 consecutive matches and won all four major titles—the Grand Slam—in 1984
- The pair set an all-time record of 79 titles together and tied Louise Brough Clapp's and Margaret Osborne duPont's record of 20 major women's doubles titles as a team
- Navratilova also won the WTA Tour Championships doubles title a record 11 times
- She is one of only five tennis players all-time to win a multiple slam set in two disciplines, matching Margaret Court, Roy Emerson, Frank Sedgman and Serena Williams
- Navratilova took her last major title in 2006, winning the mixed doubles crown at the 2006 US Open, just short of her 50th birthday — 32 years after her first Grand Slam title in 1974
- Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency
- At the time, Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovak Sports Federation that she was becoming too Americanized and that she should go back to school and make tennis secondary
- Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981, and on January 9, 2008, she acquired Czech citizenship
- She stated she has not renounced her US citizenship nor does she plan to do so and that acquiring her Czech citizenship was not politically motivated
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Last update: 16 October 2020
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