Word: martina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women players in the world. As a top pro manager points out, "It's difficult to judge from her past performances, but she may be able to play in the top ranks. Don't forget that the last player the circuit got after a defection was Martina Navratilova, who has made about $4 million since she defected...
...eight-year span between victories topped only by Bill Tilden's nine-year hiatus (1921 to 1930). "I was going to do anything not to let this chance slip by," said Connors afterward. "I was going to fight to the death." Another veteran, two-time Wimbledon Winner Martina Navratilova, 25, slammed to a 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 victory over Chris Evert Lloyd, 27, in the women's final. The victory offered a bonus: $500,000 for winning the first three tournaments in the Playtex Challenge (the other two were the U.S. Indoors and the Family Circle...
...Helen Wills Moody (19). In these most prestigious tournaments, she has never failed to reach the semifinals, winning 145 matches and losing just 14. She has held the world's No. 1 ranking in six of the nine years she has played as a professional. Says Martina Navratilova, one of the few foes to challenge Evert Lloyd successfully over the years: "Billie Jean King built the car, and then Chris drove it faster than it's ever been driven. She got the vehicle and propelled it to the masses...
Another three-month hiatus in 1980 produced a refreshed and refocused champion: "I just realized that I could change my priorities and not worry about winning, not worry about how Tracy Austin or Martina was playing. I could simply try to master my own game and try to reach my peak. Not once did I say to myself, I've got to come back.' At 21 I needed it. But I'm not obsessed with it now as I was then, when it was the only constant in my life...
...summer theater production of Camelot, starring Bert Parks and Martina Navratilova; to be followed by Gary Coleman and Phil Rizzuto in Twelve Angry...