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,
Martina Navratilova Radwańska struggled in the first half of the season, the pair decided to part ways. In 1985, Navratilova released an autobiography, co-written with "The New York Times" sports columnist George Vecsey, titled "Martina" in the U.S. and "Being Myself" in the rest of the world. She had earlier co-written a tennis instruction book with Mary Carillo in 1982, entitled "Tennis My Way". She later wrote three mystery novels with Liz Nickles: "The Total Zone" (1994), "Breaking Point" (1996), and "Killer Instinct" (1997). Navratilova's most recent literary effort was a health and fitness book entitled "Shape Your Self," which came out