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Martina Navratilova is, in the words of Billie Jean King, “the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived”, taking women’s tennis to a new level with her fitness, speed, determination and agility. In 1975, at the age of 18 years old and after losing the US Open semi-final, Martina walked into the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service in New York City and informed them she wanted to defect from Soviet controlled communist Czechoslovakia.
Martina’s on-court tennis achievements speak for themselves, winning a total of 59 Grand Slam titles (18 singles, 31 ladies doubles and 10 mixed doubles) in an outstanding career.
Martina is the only tennis player to have spent more than 200 weeks as world number one in both singles and doubles. She holds the record of nine Wimbledon singles titles, comprising half of her 18 Grand Slam singles titles.
In women’s doubles she won 31 Grand Slam titles complemented by 10 mixed doubles titles.
Martina is one of only three women to win singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at each of the four Grand Slams, being the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Her last Grand Slam victory was in the 2006 US Open mixed doubles, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
In her 33-year professional tennis career Martina won 354 titles, 167 of them in singles.
Her decades long rivalry with Chris Evert is considered one of the greatest in sports history, with Martina holding a 43-37 advantage. Off-court, they continue to be best of friends!
Since retiring at almost 50, Martina has forged a career in other fields and also provides her articulate, intelligent and sometimes outspoken commentary on the Tennis Channel, BBC’s Wimbledon coverage, Amazon Prime Video and SKY.
Martina now spends her time between being at home and travelling the world extensively, giving speaking engagements on a variety of issues and taking part in other corporate activities.
As a keynote speaker, Martina speaks on a variety of diverse topics, adapted to suit the occasion. Martina brings the passion and commitment she demonstrated on the tennis court to issues close to her heart, such as women’s issues, gay rights, underprivileged children, animal rights, environmental protection, AIDS research and breast cancer awareness. She often intersperses her talks and Q&As with anecdotes of her own life, on and off the court, sharing an affinity with the audience.
Martina has also made a number of television appearances including I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, Dancing with the Stars, the Netflix series The Politician, Will and Grace and in a 1983 episode of Hart to Hart.
As well as her autobiography Martina Navratilova: Being Myself, Martina has written Tennis My Way, an instruction guide in tennis for women and Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life.
She has written about the mental health of gay American teenagers in Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing up Gay in America.
Martina has also written three mystery thrillers featuring fictional former tennis champion Jordan Myles, The Total Zone, Killer Instinct and Breaking Point.
Martina was seven times named Player of the Year by the Women’s Tennis Association, the International Tennis Federation’s World Champion six times and Associated Press Female Athlete of the year twice.
For her campaigning activism, Martina was the recipient of the national Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the United States.
In 2003 she was presented with the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2006 was given the Czech Sport Legend Award.
In 2009 Martina was awarded the International Tennis Federation’s highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award, for her contributions to tennis both on and off the court.
In 2016 Martina was made an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova discusses the challenges she overcame to carve out one of the most decorated sports careers in history. From defecting from her native Czechoslovakia to pursue her dream to being publicly outed in 1981 at the point when her career was starting to take off, Navratilova shares how she stayed centered and saw her goals through to the end.
With great emotional resonance, she recounts the most difficult but pivotal decision she made to advance her career: refusing to return to communist Czechoslovakia after traveling to the U.S. in 1975 for a competition. “It turned out it was four years before I saw my mother and five years before I saw my father or my sister,” she recalls not knowing if she would see her family again. “That was a pretty devastating time, but I felt that I had no choice…If I wanted to keep my dream alive, I had to get out of that, because otherwise my life wouldn’t be my own.”
A popular choice for events that focus on health and fitness, women’s empowerment, and gay and lesbian issues, Martina Navratilova brings class to any engagement. The tennis icon’s career and personal story is a fascinating moving account of overcoming prejudice and staying true to your identity. From fleeing Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia to coming out in an era that was still rife with homophobia, Navratilova has always led by example. The distinguished athlete discusses her experiences and the causes she represents with transparency, wit, and grace.
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Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life
Martina Navratilova is a marvel of fitness. She easily outruns many women half her age, still plays tennis competitively, and loves to have fun with other sports like basketball, hockey, skiing, and more. Now you can learn Martina′s “secret,” a lifestyle plan that′s evolved from more than 30 years of trial and error, working with nutritionists, coaches, doctors, kinesiologists, and other top experts. In Shape Your Self, this amazing athelete shares her own story and distills this wealth of experience into a set of simple strategies, tips, and small changes to achieve the shape of your life. In her 6-step program, you′ll discover:
Learn the strategies that have helped Martina shape her self into the best condition of her life. No matter what your age or your challenge, Martina will help you feel great, and look great, too!
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