“What a joke,” Martina Navratilova shows no mercy towards Maria Sharapova after being pitted against the Russian along with Serena Williams and Steffi Graf for GOAT debate
Martina Navratilova's reaction to a post that nominated Maria Sharapova as the greatest women's tennis player of all time has taken the Internet by storm.
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Martina Navratilova and Maria Sharapova. (credits: The Economic Times, NDTV Sports)
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has had a great impact in the field of tennis opening several doors for many women’s tennis players in the generations after her. She had held the record of winning the most Grand Slam titles as a female player for two decades until Serena Williams overcame her. Now that a post has been shared by a page named, World of Statistics that posed a question relating to the best female tennis player of all time.
With the options slated down the post to choose from, the players elected were Martina herself and her longtime rival Steffi Graf, another one being 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams, and lately Maria Sharapova. While this post has caught the eye of Martina, she was amused to see Sharapova’s name in the list which even led to her reacting heavily against the notion.
Martina retweeted the post with a caption, “What a joke- I mean Maria? Really? Don’t even bother voting…” This tweet of Martina not even considering Sharapova any close to the rest two stars on the list has gone viral among the tennis world in just a few seconds. Some fans have picked Martina as the clear winner among the four due to her dominance in the sport and the way she gave women’s tennis the platform it deserved.
Martina Navratilova’s impact in the field of tennis
Very few tennis players come close and on the same line as Martina Navratilova, who had changed tennis giving it a whole new recognition through her gameplay. She is by far the greatest women’s tennis player of the Open Era winning a record 59 Grand Slam titles which involves 18 singles titles. She had won a record 9 Wimbledon singles titles, 4 US Open titles, 3 Australian Open titles, and 2 French Open titles.
Throughout her career, she has amassed a total of 167 singles titles and 177 doubles titles championships. She still to this date holds several records such as the only player to stay in the WTA Top 10 rankings for a record 20 years straight.
Another enormous record that she achieved was way back in the year 1984 when she won 74 consecutive matches from the month of February to the month of December resulting in straight 13 titles that still stand untouched to date.
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