LAST UPDATED: July 21, 2008

07-21-08: World Team Tennis
Martina is now playing her 19th World Team Tennis season, for the Boston Lobsters. She already played on July 16, winning her women's doubles match with Raquel Kops-Jones 5-2, and losing 4-5 her mixed doubles match, paired with Amir Hadad. On July 19 she had the same results. This evening there's a crucial match against Newport Beach. Go, Martina!
Article - 07/16/08 - from the team's official website
Article - 07/16/08 - from the Boston Herald
Article - 07/16/08 - from the Boston Globe
Article - 07/19/08 - from the Boston Herald

07-06-08: Wimbledon!
Wimbledon keeps Martina quite busy, as usual, and this year was no exception! She did her commentary work for Tennis Channel but also played in the Ladies' Invitational Doubles, reaching the finals. Well done, Martina! She was paired with Helena Sukova. On July 01 they defeated Gretchen Magers and Conchita Martinez 6-4 6-3; on July 03 their opponents Annabel Croft and Jo Durie retired when Martina and Helena were leading 6-1 1-0. On July 4 they defeated Ilana Kloss and Rosalyn Nideffer 6-4 4-6 10-4 and, at the end, on July 6 they lost to Jana Novotna and Kathy Rinaldi 7-5 3-6 5-10... Through the match statistics pages you may download some moments of the match to watch! Martina also wrote some articles and was interviewed.
Match statistics - 07/01/08 - from the Wimbledon official website
Match statistics - 07/03/08 - from the Wimbledon official website
Match statistics - 07/04/08 - from the Wimbledon official website
Match statistics - 07/06/08 - from the Wimbledon official website
Interview - from the Telegraph.co
Article - from the Telegraph.co
Article by Martina - from BBC Sport
Martina at Wimbledon 2008

06-28-08: Laureus events and interviews
During Wimbledon, London hosts a couple of events organized by the Laureus World Sports Academy: the IWC Laureus Polo Cup, held at Ham Polo Club, that raises funds to support the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Argentina (June 22), and the Laureus Annual Summer celebrations (June 28), which this year took place at the All England Championships. Martina attended both the events and also welcomed the guests at her Art Grand Slam exhibition, together with Juraj Kralik. On June 24 she did a very interesting interview on Laureus TV, talking about different subjects (Wimbledon, eastern european players, Laureus and her art); the Laureus website shows some videos as well as the complete transcript. Talking about interviews, some days before the beginning of Wimbledon, on June 14, Martina had a great interview with Ed Pilkington of The Guardian, don't miss it!
Article - 06/22/08 - from the Laureus official website
Interview - from the Laureus official website
Interview - from The Guardian
Laureus summer events in London

06-09-08: International Women's Sports Hall of Fame inaugural induction ceremony
In its 28th year, the annual induction ceremony for the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame finally has a "...place to call home". This proud announcement can be read inside the WSF official website... The event took place for the first time in the brand-new Billie Jean King Women's Sports Center, which is part of the Sports Museum of America (inaugurated one month ago, see article here below). All the memorabilia gathered over the past two decades have now a permanent home: the first museum dedicated to women's sports. 2008 inductees were: Algerian track star Hassiba Boulmerka, UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist, Japanese golfer Hisako Higuchi and Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller. Martina (who was inducted in 1984) and many other previously inducted member of the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, were honored on stage. She later presented inductee Hassiba Boulmerka with her award.
Article - from the Women's Sports Foundation website
Link - Photo gallery from the Women's Sports Foundation website
Martina at the 2008 International Women's Sports Hall of Fame induction

05-30-08: News from Martina's official site
Firstly, there's a new, nice section regarding Art Grand Slam; you'll find 'Art Grand Slam in the news', with a link to an article of May 8 on The Independant, and you have the chance to watch many of Martina and Juro's works, from their collections insipred by Roland Garros, Melbourne Park, Flushing Meadows, Wimbledon and Beyond (with various art pieces). Martina had also something to say about Justine Henin's retirement, announced on May 14...
Link - 'Art Grand Slam' inside Martina's official website
Article - 'Justine's retirement', from Martina's Diary inside her official website
Article - Justine's retirement announced by The Telegraph

05-06-08: Opening of the Sports Museum of America (SmA)
Martina and thirty other hall of fame athletes attended the special pre-opening event hosted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to celebrate the opening of the Sports Museum of America (SmA), scheduled on May 7; she's also a founding member of the museum's Honorary Board of Trustees. This innovative museum is located in New York, at 26 Broadway, "... in the heart of the new downtown", as we can read in the official website (it's footsteps from the Statue of Liberty Ferry, near Wall Street and the former site of the World Trade Center). It's defined as "...the nation's first and only all sports experience", and indeed it's the only multi-media museum experience dedicated to the celebration of all sports. You'll find more than 30 interactive and touch screens, original films, equipment and memorabilia, 19 themed galleries and state-of-the-art interactive technology everywhere. All major sports are represented: auto racing, baseball, basketball, bicycling, bowling, boxing, figure skating, fishing, football, golf, hockey, horse racing, lacrosse, rugby, sailing, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track & field, volleyball, wrestling... SmA is also the permanent home of the Women's Sports Foundation International Women's Sports Hall of Fame, within the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center. Martina attended the opening night gala as well.
Article - from the New York City Sports Commission website
Article - from the Women's Sports Foundation website
Link - Sports Museum of America official website
Martina at the opening of Sports Museum of America

04-10-08: MARTINA'S WTT CALENDAR
It's now official, Martina will join the Boston Lobsters also this year. She's scheduled to play on July 16 (Springfield, against Springfield Lasers), 19 (Newport, against Newport Beach Breakers) and 21 (Boston, against Newport Beach Breakers). Her fellow team players are Raquel Kops-Jones, Jan-Michael Gambill, Marie-Eve Pelletier and Amir Hadad. Check out both the WTT and Boston Lobsters official websites for the complete schedule and further news (you may also buy the tickets online)!
Link - 2008 WTT schedule from the WTT official website
Link - Boston Lobsters' official website

04-10-08: THE NEW LOOK OF MARTINA'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE!
At the beginning of this week martinanavratilova.com changed its look! It now has a new graphic and updated news... for example, we learn that Martina will be commentator for Tennis Channel during the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open: what a great news!
Link - Martina's official website has a new look

04-10-08: MARTINA AND CHRIS ON OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
On April 8 U.S. residents had the chance to watch Martina and Chris Evert talking about their rivalry and remembering facts and anecdotes behind their epic duels! They were guests on Oprah Winfrey's famous talk show, and Oprah's official website provides some excerpts of the interview, as well as some nice pictures.
Article - from the Oprah Show Archive

03-25-08: MARTINA'S EXCELLENT REPLY TO RECENT POLEMICS
Many polemics followed the news that she has regained her Czech citizenship two months ago, especially in the U.S. That's why Martina wrote a post as blogger on the internet newspaper 'The Huffington Post', as well as on her website. It's an interesting reading, and I also like the numerous comments, which give an idea of how many Americans support Martina!
Martina's article - My dual citizenship: why did the media get it so wrong?

03-15-08: DREAM MATCH 2008
Martina and Steffi Graf rolled back the years last Sunday, as they faced each other again, 14 years after their last match! The event has been called "Dream Match" and was held at the Ariake Stadium in Tokyo. The main attraction was, quite obviously, the Martina vs. Steffi match, but there also were two matches with Kimiko Date.... Here are the results:
Kimiko Date def. Martina Navratilova [8-6]
Steffi Graf def. Martina Navratilova [8-7 (10-5)]
Kimiko Date def. Steffi Graf [6-2 6-3]
It's always nice to see Martina playing here and there! It also seems that she will play in the WTT; let's wait and see, as the draft will be held in April...
Article - from The Japan Times online
Martina playing the Dream Match 2008

03-11-08: MARTINA ANNOUNCES HER REGAINED CZECH CITIZENSHIP
She made the announcement during a press conference in Tokyo, where she was preparing herself for the Dream Match against Steffi Graf (see news above). Martina pointed out that there are no political reasons behind her desire to regain her native country citizenship (which she lost in 1975 after her defection), nor has she ever thought to to give up her American citizenship... She will simply mantain a dual citizenship, as many people do around the world. Nevertheless, many Americans feel some resentment and think that Martina applied for Czech citizenship just because she doesn't agree with the actual political administration in the U.S.
Article - from the Radio Praha website
Article - from Telegraph.co
Article - from the Guardian.co
Martina's press conference in Tokyo

02-02-08: OPENING OF 'THE ELS CLUB' IN DUBAI
Last Monday, on January 28, Martina was in the United Arab Emirates to attend the opening day of Els Course at Dubai Sports City. It's a 72-par, 18-hole championship golf course designed by South African star Ernie Els and it's the newest jewel at Dubai Sports City, which is known as "...the world's first purpose-built sports city...". Martina and her fellow guests (former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel of Denmark, cricketer Andrew Flintoff of England and former captain of the World Champion South African rugby team John Smit) hit some shots and had a launch 'on the slopes', as you can see in the links below.
Article - from Rediff News
Article - from Ernie Els' official website
Diary - from Ernie Els' official website
Martina at 'The Els Club' in Dubai

02-02-08: AUSTRALIAN OPEN COMMENTARY
Martina did some excellent commentary at the Australian Open for the American cable TV Tennis Channel. The network's official website still provides a short video of outakes: they are absolutely funny!!
Video - from the Tennis Channel website

01-02-08: HOPMAN CUP
Martina is now at the Hyundai Hopman Cup XX in Perth, Western Australia. She's this year’s VIP guest of the tournament and she's also working as commentator for the Australian channel ABC (she joins Fred Stolle, Louise Pleming, Geoff Masters, Lisa McShea, Steve Robilliard, Peter Wilkins and Quentin Hull). The Hopman Cup is the official mixed teams competition of the International Tennis Federation and is considered the most prestigious invitation tennis tournament in the world. A men’s and a women’s representative are invited to represent their country and eight are the countries which compete: Serbia (Jelena Jankovic and Novak Djokovic), USA (Serena Williams and Mardy Fish), Czech Republic (Lucie Safarova and Tomas Berdych), France (Tatiana Golovin and Arnaud Clement), Argentina (Gisela Dulko and Juan Ignacio Chela), Australia (Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak), India (Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna) and Chinese Taipei (Su-Wei Hsieh and Yen-Hsun Lu). On December 31 she attended the opening of her tennis art exhibition 'Art Grand Slam'. The paintings, created by Martina and Juraj Kralik, will be displayed in the foyer of the InterContinental Perth Burswood (a luxurious hotel located near the center of the city) and in a gallery at Leederville (a suburb 3 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District of Perth) for several weeks... Martina talked about 'Art Grand Slam' and the future developments, as you can read in the second article here below. The last link you find below is the 'ABC Grandstand' blog of the tournament; scroll down the page to find some articles talking about Martina. On December 31 you find "Queens of Tennis are in the 'Dome", while on January 1st "Happy New Year Hopman Style!"; Martina took part in the New Years Eve ball aboard the 'Hopman Princess'... After the dinner (according to ABC blogger Carole Kerr the menu was "...a choice of waygu beef, salmon sashimi or szechwan soup for starters, barramundi or lamb for mains and the all important dessert - a 'caribbean inspiration' of coconut and rum mousse, nougatine sponge, soft centre passionfruit and mango served with cocoa and chilli sorbet") there was a charity auction (also including "...a Martina Navratilova and Juraj Kralik original artwork...") to raise money for 'Variety Club' and the 'Kids Tennis Foundation'.
Article - from ABC TV official website
Article - from the tournament website
Blog1 - from ABC Grandstand
Blog2 - from ABC Grandstand
Martina at the 2008 Hopman Cup XX

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