Martina Navratilova, tennis champion: Women are judged by a different metric to men
“Women are still judged by a different metric than men”
Amol Rajan speaks to Martina Navratilova, one of the greatest-ever tennis players, about her life and career. The story of her rise to the top of the game is as remarkable as the number of tournaments she managed to win.
Born behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia in 1956, she was 11-years-old when she watched Soviet tanks roll in to the country as Moscow sought to reassert control and quash political reform.
Navratilova, who played in her first tennis tournament when she was eight, rose to both national and international prominence…
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