Martina Navratilova turned seventy on October 18, 2026. A WTA retrospective published the previous day highlights the gap between her singles retirement and her final major title. She left singles at the 1994 WTA Finals in New York with 1,442 match wins and 167 titles.
Her first Wimbledon singles title came against Chris Evert in 1978. She eventually won nine Wimbledon singles crowns and eighteen singles majors overall. The Evert rivalry comprised eighty meetings, with Navratilova leading 43-37.
In doubles, Navratilova and Pam Shriver celebrated their hundredth consecutive match win at Eastbourne in 1985. Twenty of their seventy-nine titles together came at majors.
Navratilova’s final major was the 2006 US Open mixed doubles with Bob Bryan, about six weeks before her fiftieth birthday. That victory brought her combined singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles major total to fifty-nine.
