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Martina navratilova october 18, 1956 is a retired czech american tennis player and coach, and a former world no. One might think that a tennis star like navratilova could enjoy the fruits of her labor. Tennis legend who won twenty wimbledon tennis titles including singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Born martina hingisova molitor in kosice, czechoslovakia now slovakia, hingis lived for a time in florida but has now returned to switzerland. She won singles titles across all four grand slam tournaments and was ranked world number one in singles for 332 weeks during her career. Navratilova devoted some of her time off of the tennis court to writing.
Martina navratilova biography affair, married, husband. The winner of 18 singles titles, 31 womens doubles titles a record yet unbroken and 10 mixed doubles titles, martina has won more grand slams than any other tennis player in history. Later in life, she authored a series of fiction books and was active in the gay. Julia lemigova is the daughter of a red army colonel. Martina by martina navratilova meet your next favorite book. Her autobiography martina chronicles her life from growing up in the former czechoslovakia to her defection to the united states and subsequent rise to greatness and reveals much about trials and triumphs she had experienced along the way. Major competitions miss ussr 1990 winner miss universe 1991 2nd runnerup career.
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