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 in 2006. In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen, Navratilova gave an interview to "New York Daily News" sports reporter Steve Goldstein, coming out as bisexual and revealing that she had a sexual relationship with Rita Mae Brown, but asked him not to publish the article until she was ready to come out publicly. However, the "New York Daily News" published the article on July 30, 1981. Navratilova and Nancy Lieberman, her girlfriend at the time, gave an interview to "Dallas Morning News" columnist Skip Bayless, where Navratilova reiterated that she was bisexual and Lieberman identified herself as