Novak Djokovic equalizes Margaret Court to Grand Slam. The Serbian defeated Daniil Medvedev in the final of the US Open and added his great number 24, something that only the Australian tennis player had achieved until now (to which he also added another 40 in the doubles category -19-, and mixed doubles -twenty-one-).
Born in 1942within a poor family, Court began playing tennis by sneaking through a hole in a fence on a court at the tennis center in Albury, a town in New south Wales. There he played with the old balls he found nearby, which he hit with pieces of wood, until someone gave him an old racket. After him came his first classes. The teenage Court already stood out for its height and strength with which it was used. Soon those who watched her play realized that they were facing someone out of the ordinary. She trained hard, working out with weights in the gym for hours and undergoing very demanding preparation sessions. She surpassed her male rivals in training with ease.
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In 1960 he won his first Open the Australia. It would be the first of six in a row and the beginning of a career until now unmatched in the history of tennis. Over the years he accumulated victories in 11 Open de Australia, 5 US Open, 5 Roland Garros y 3 Wimbledon. In 1970, furthermore, he achieved the Golden Slam by winning the big four in the same year. On that date, the Wimbledon final is remembered as epic, in which Court defeated the American Billie Jean King 14-12 and 11-9. Her breaks due to her motherhood did not prevent her from continuing to add titles and victories.
In the mid-1970s, Court embraced Pentecostalism, in the 1980s she qualified as a theologian, and in the 1990s she became an ordained pastor and founded the Victory Life Center Pentecostal Church in Perth. His controversial ultra-conservative statements and criticism of homosexuality, same-sex marriage and the LGBT movement, which he compared to Hitler’s propaganda system, They raised blisters in Australia. “Tennis is full of lesbians. Even when I played there were already a couple, but a couple who ruled and took the girls to parties and things like that,” she once noted.
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Different politicians and groups They requested that the name be changed to the Margaret Court Arena, which had been named one of the main courts at the venue where the Australian Open is held. Former tennis players such as John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova were critical of Court’s homophobic messages and proposed that the court be named after Evonne Goolagong Arena, the first Aboriginal tennis player to win a Grand Slam.
Her intransigence and attacks on homosexuals have obscured the impressive tennis legacy of a player who was chosen in Australia as its best athlete in history.
2023-09-11 05:02:24
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