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Martina Navratilova

May 2024

  • Catherine Bennett

    With a bit of Saudi topspin, tennis fans can overlook its brutal repression of women

    Catherine Bennett
    The WTA finals host revealed its commitment to women’s rights by jailing a female activist

March 2023

  • Martina Navratilova

    Martina Navratilova reveals she is ‘cancer-free’ after throat and breast diagnoses

    The 66-year-old, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, had feared she ‘may not see next Christmas’

January 2023

  • Martina Navratilova in the Royal Box on day one of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon

    Martina Navratilova diagnosed with early-stage throat and breast cancers

    Martina Navratilova says she will ‘fight with all I have got’ after being diagnosed with throat and breast cancers

June 2022

  • Martina Navratilova winning Wimbledon in 1990 (top left), with arch-rival Chris Evert in 1978 (right) and with Billie Jean King in 1979 (bottom left).

    Martina Navratilova: ‘I’ve always tried to do the right thing rather than the popular thing’

    The tennis ace on the ban on Russian players, mental health in sport, gun laws… and why this year’s Wimbledon crowd will be very loud

June 2021

  • Martina Navratilova

    1984: Martina Navratilova, Wimbledon and the summer that transformed America forever

    Wimbledon 1984 found John McEnroe at the absolute peak of his powers, yet he was only the second most dominant force in the sport

July 2020

  • Unravelling Athena - Serena Williams 2 Wimbledon

    Unraveling Athena review – a frank serving of women's lives in tennis

    Sentimentality, cheerleading and a blur of talking heads mar this otherwise interesting portfolio of reflections
  • Martina Navratilova after defeating Zina Garrison in the 1990 Wimbledon final

    Wimbledon finally embraced Martina Navratilova during her last hurrah

    Steffi Graf was dominant and Monica Seles was emerging, but in 1990 SW19’s greatest champion won the final grand slam of her illustrious singles career and the hearts of the crowd

    • The greatest
      The greatest female tennis player of the last 50 years: the fans' verdict

    • The greatest
      The greatest? Memory can relegate past stars but it's still Serena Williams for me

      Kevin Mitchell

    • The greatest
      The greatest: Martina Navratilova – an enduring champion brave enough to be herself

January 2020

  • John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova have delivered a stunning on-court protest against Margaret Court on Tuesday afternoon. The duo have been vocal against Court in the past who has caused controversy with her vocal opposition to same-sex marriage and comments about transgender people. Her comments have led to a barrage of backlash and led fans to call for the arena named after her to be changed. McEnroe and Navratilova delivered the latest statement hitting out against Court as they walked off court holding a sign which read “Evonne Goolagong Arena”.

    Shortcuts
    Badly served: should tennis be celebrating Margaret Court?

  • John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova protest against Margaret Court, urging an arena at the Australian Open in John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova protest against Margaret Court, urging an arena at Melbourne Park to be renamed after Evonne Goolagong Cawley.

    Martina Navratilova takes fight on-court for name change to Evonne Goolagong Arena

July 2019

  • Johanna Konta’s assertion that she had been patronised was backed up by Rory McIlroy but some of the Wimbledon crowd felt the journalist’s questions were fair.

    Wimbledon diary: Henman defends Konta while Navratilova trolls Trump

    Johanna Konta’s spat with a journalist divided opinion but Martina Navratilova’s cap had an unequivocal message for the US president

June 2019

  • Martina Navratilova

    If Martina Navratilova's thinking on trans athletes can evolve, so can sport

    Owl Fisher
  • The Summer of Rockets<br>WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 20:00:01 on 12/04/2019 - Programme Name: The Summer of Rockets - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. 1) - Picture Shows: ***EMBARGOED UNTIL 8pm 12th APRIL 2019*** Kathleen Shaw (KEELEY HAWES), Samuel Petrukhin (TOBY STEPHENS) - (C) Little Island Productions - Photographer: Sophie Mutevelian

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Poliakoff's Summer of Rockets trundles to an elegant end

May 2019

  • Wimbledon Winner<br>7th July 1978: Martina Navratilova gets a hug from Chris Evert (Chris Lloyd), after beating her in the final at the Wimbledon tennis championships, London, England. (Photo by Rob Taggart/Central Press/Getty Images) Wimbledon 1978 England;black white;format portrait;female;Sport;Tennis;Personality;Czech;American;Europe;C (RS/TAG);

    Further reading
    From Caster Semenya to Martina Navratilova: the best books on sporting outliers

    Sports writer Alex Hutchinson picks the best books that explore sex, gender and the nature-nurture debate

March 2019

  • Munroe Bergdorf

    Trans model Munroe Bergdorf says she feels threatened by some other women

  • Hadley Freeman

    Sport can help to clarify the trans debate

    Hadley Freeman

February 2019

  • Martina Navratilova

    LGBT group drops Martina Navratilova over transgender comments

  • Martina Navratilova

    Martina Navratilova criticised over 'cheating' trans women comments

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