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Martina Navratilova

Czech-American former professional tennis player and one of the greatest in the sport's history.

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Martina Navratilova is best known for Dominating women's tennis in the 1980s with a record 59 major titles, including nine Wimbledon singles championships. On Dead or Alive, Martina Navratilova is listed in the Tennis Legends category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Martina Navratilova is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Dominating women's tennis in the 1980s with a record 59 major titles, including nine Wimbledon singles championships.
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About Martina Navratilova

She was ranked world No. 1 in women's singles for 332 weeks (second-most all time), including as the year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's doubles for a record 237 weeks. Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles (both the Open Era records), including an Open Era record 59 major titles: 18 in singles, an all-time record 31 in women's doubles, and an Open Era record 10 in mixed doubles. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis for much of the 1980s. Navratilova won a record six consecutive singles majors across 1983 and 1984 while simultaneously winning the Grand Slam in doubles. Navratilova claims the best professional season winning percentage, 98.9% in 1983 (going 86–1 for the season), and the longest all-surface winning streak of 74 straight match wins. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including for nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990. She won her last major title, the mixed doubles competition at the 2006 US Open, shortly before her 50th birthday, and 32 years after her first major title in 1974. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Navratilova was stripped of her citizenship when she asked the United States for political asylum in 1975.

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