Martina Navratilova her U.S. citizenship nor does she plan to do so, and that reclaiming Czech nationality was not politically motivated. Navratilova was born Martina Šubertová in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents divorced when she was three, and her mother, an accomplished gymnast, tennis player, and ski instructor, moved the family to Řevnice. In 1962, her mother Jana married Miroslav Navrátil, who became her first tennis coach. Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix "ová"), thus becoming Martina Navrátilová (). Her father, Mirek (officially Miroslav Subert), was a ski instructor and remarried and divorced. When she was eight,
Marise Kruger 1978 Kruger was a member of the San Francisco Golden Gaters which played in the World Team Tennis (WTT) league in the United States. Her best singles result at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the quarterfinal at the 1978 Wimbledon Championships, in which she lost to second-seeded and eventual champion Martina Navratilova. Marise Kruger Marise Kruger (born 17 July 1958) is a former South African female tennis player who was active in the second half of the 1970s. Kruger started playing tennis when she was five. She reached the girl's final at the 1976 Wimbledon Championships, won the junior