Martina Navratilova berated WTA for removing the Best-of-5 format from the Year-End Championships
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Martina Navratilova, the former Czech-American tennis player has played a major role in bringing a revolutionary change to women’s tennis inspiring millions around the world. The 18-time grand slam champion has advocated her voice for women’s rights and climate change for a long time.
Navratilova, the former world number one, expressed her anger and crtiticized the WTA authorties for their decision to abandon five-set game format at the WTA Finals which is the year-end championships. For a span of four years between 1984 to 1988, the WTA Finals championship match was played in the best-of-5 format. But after 1988 the format was changed to the best of 3 format. Navratilova expressed her concerns about WTA decision and questioned the reason for such a change during an interview.
Navratilova said that “I don’t know why they took it away because it was a big controversy when they started to receive us like let’s give it a go. Of course, we wanted to play when you get equal prize money and the majors, and the beef against that was well we only play two out of three. We had maybe 10 years of that and then they stopped it. Again I don’t know why they stopped it.“
Martina Navratilova had been very upfront about her views against the anti-abortion laws in US
Martina Navratilova has been very vocal about fighting for rights of women especially against the anti-abortion ruling right from the very start and had spoken about it while comparing the anti-abortion law for women in the US to women being forced to wear a hijab worldwide. The American legend had expressed her opinion that the same people who think it’s wrong to force women to wear a hijab think it’s ok to force women to carry a child to term. She even called out such people and said that both things are equally wrong. Both are about one thing only- control and oppression of women.
She has even expressed her opinions and concerns on various political matters and issues and even criticized the political decisions and Donald Trump has been on the receiving end of her anger and disgust quite a times.
She is one of the greatest players of all time and has a combined total of 59 major titles which is the most by any player in the Open era. She has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in her illustrious career which lasted for more than three decades. She had created history as the oldest ever champion after she won the title at French Open in 2006 breaking her own record.
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