Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

"Whenever people go into politics and they try to say that Communism was a good thing I say 'Go ahead and live in a Communist country then if you think it's so great. In the semifinals however Helena Suková ended Navratilova's 74-match winning streak (a record for a professional) 1–6 6–3 7–5. ) From 1985 through 1987 Navratilova reached the women's singles final at all 11 Grand Slam tournaments held during those three years winning six of them.

Navratilova is one of just three women to have accompliMartina Navratilovad a career Grand Slam in singles women's doubles and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set") a record Martina Navratilova shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. Billie Jean King former World No. At the time Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovakian Sports Federation that Martina Navratilova was becoming too Americanized and that Martina Navratilova should go back to school and make tennis secondary.