Martina Navratilova`s Biography
She came to the United States to play tennis and became the queen of Burger King. Two decades later, she left tennis as the queen of the game. Navratilova holds the trophy after winning her ninth Wimbledon singles title in 1990.It wasn't easy for Martina Navratilova, born a Czechoslovakian but with the...
Anna Kournikova`s Biography
Times change. It is a naked truism and one of the sacred, original platitudes. So how come, when it comes to dealing with someone like Anna Kournikova, the Russian born-and-bred tennis player and self-styled vamp of the WTA Tour, so few people seem to...
Steffi Graf's Biography
The beginning came neatly wrapped in irony, one teen tennis queen across the court from a future one. In 1982, Steffi Graf, a 13-year-old German and the youngest phenom to turn professional, played her first match against...
Zina Garrison's Biography
On the tennis court, Zina Garrison made headlines in 1990 at Wimbledon by becoming the first African-American woman to reach a Grand Slam final since Althea Gibson 32 years earlier. Off the court, she had made news earlier when she...
Chris Evert's Biography
With ponytail flying on the grass courts of Forest Hills, N.Y., this unseeded high school girl from Florida made three gripping comebacks against established women pros -- including once staving off six match points. Chris Evert was...
