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- Martina Navratilova won
- more tournaments (167)
- than any other player,
- male of female, in tennis
- history. She won 18 Grand
- Slam singles titles and 55 Grand Slam titles
- overall (including singles, doubles, and
- mixed doubles championships), second only
- to Margaret Court. Martina finished the year
- ranked Number 1 in the world seven times.
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- Martina grew up in Czechoslovakia, a country
- in Central Europe. (In 1993, Czechoslovakia
- was divided into two countries: Slovakia and
- the Czech Republic.) Czechoslovakia was a
- Communist country and had a dictatorship
- for a government. The government had a
- lot of control over the lives of its citizens.
- But luckily for Martina, in the late 1960s,
-