Martina Navratilova is a Czechoslovakian and American former professional tennis player and coach.
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Martina is widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time.
Martina has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women’s doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles, marking the Open Era record for the most Grand Slam titles won by a single player.
Martina reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including for nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990.
Martina also 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.
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In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen, Martina gave an interview to New York Daily News sports reporter Steve Goldstein, coming out as bisexual but asked him not to publish the article until she was ready to come out publicly.
However, the New York Daily News published the article on July 30, 1981.

Martina has been involved in relationships with Rita Mae Brown, Nancy Lieberman and Judy Nelson.
Martina is presently married to long-time girlfriend Julia Lemigova, a former Miss USSR, at the US Open.
Martina proposed to her on September 6, 2014 and they got married in New York on December 15, 2014.
Martina does not have a child but she acts as a parent to her partner Lemigova’s two daughters, an arrangement she referred to as her ‘instantaneous family’.


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