Martina The Legendary Tennis Player

Martina Navratilova is an ex-World number 1 female Tennis Player. Born on October 18, 1956 in Czechoslovakia, she became the citizen of America in 1981.Her stepfather Miroslav Navratil was her first coach. Martina won the Czech republic national tennis championship at the age of fifteen. At the age of seventeen, she got her very first professional singles title when she played the match in Orlando, Florida. She became a professional tennis player in 1975.

In 1975’s Grand Slam singles tournaments, she was one of the finalist in both the Australian Open and French Open, but she lost in both the finals to Evonne Goolagong Cawley and Chris Evert, respectively. The same year, she even lost in the semi finals of the US Open the same year after which she made her mind to get the green card of United States. In 1978, Navratilova got her first victory in the Grand Slam singles at Wimbledon and at the same she acquired the world number 1 rank after defeating Chris Evert.

Navratilova was a women of great power and aggression because of which she raised the level of competition. Initially she was on the heavier side and she had to struggle a lot to get into shape for tennis. In this regard Nancy Lieberman, a basketball player, helped her. She underwent severe levels of fitness and exercising which finally got her into shape. She even learned the technique to use graphite racquets, which made her one of the most dominant tennis player.

When she faced off against Evert in 1981 at the Australian Open in the Grand Slam single, she won again. Then she was victorious in the Wimbledon and French Open that following year. She triumphed in all of the Grand Slams except for one in 1983.

No tennis player before her had a higher proportion of professional wins. Even though she lost the Grand Slam of the French Open in 1983, she came back with a vengeance in 1984 and won. Philippe Chatrier, the International Tennis Federation president, declared her miraculous feat the Grand Slam. Martina did not win six of her matches between 1982 and 1984.

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