WTA Ranking (Season-Ending, Singles)

1994-8*; 1993-3; 1992-5; 1991-4; 1990-3; 1989-2; 1988-2; 1987-2; 1986-1; 1985-1; 1984-1; 1983-1; 1982-1; 1981-3; 1980-3; 1979-1; 1978-1; 1977-3; 1976-4; 1975-4
*Last appeared on ranking Dec. 26, 1994

Career Review

Career Highlights - Grand Slam Singles

Career Highlights - Grand Slam Doubles

Career Highlights - Grand Slam Mixed Doubles

Facts

• She qualified for her 21st season-ending Championships in November 2003, returned to Fed Cup play after an eight-year absence, giving the United States the only point in its 4-1 final’s loss to France.
  
  
• In October, she won in Philadelphia with her seventh 2003 doubles title; in September, won in Leipzig; in August, won Canadian Open.
  
  
• In June, she won the Mixed Doubles w/ Leander Paes at Wimbledon, equaling King's all-time record 20 Wimbledon titles and, at 46 years of age, becoming the oldest Wimbledon champion.
  
  
• In May, she reached the German Open quarter finals w/Kuznetsova, 28 years after she won her first doubles there; won Italian Open w/Kuznetsova; in April she won the doubles title at Sarasota; In February, in Dubai she won women's doubles title of the year.
  
  
• In January, she won the doubles title at Gold Coast with Kuznetsova, broke her own record as the oldest player to win a WTA Tour title at 46 years, 2 months, 17 days; won Australian Open mixed doubles title w/Paes to become the third woman to win singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments, and became the oldest person to win a Grand Slam title at 46 years, 3 months, surpassing record set in 1924.
  
• She returned to singles play at Eastbourne in January 2002 after a 7 1/2-year break, winning 1st round to up her total match victories to 1,439 (broke Chris Evert's all-time record of 1,309 singles-match wins at 1991 Milan); won her first two doubles matches of the year at the Italian Open; captured the doubles title at Madrid.
  
  
• She played doubles at the 2000 US Open; returned to doubles play in four tournaments on the WTA Tour six years after retiring, reaching the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
  
  
• In 1995, she won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title, her 19th title at Wimbledon (singles, doubles and mixed).
  
  
• In 1994, she surpassed the $20 million mark in career prize money and became the leader in career prize money among all female athletes.

Awards

• Presented with BBC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 by mixed doubles partner Leander Paes (her first BBC award was 1987 Overseas Personality Award).
  
  
• Holds 167 singles titles, more than any man or woman; won at least one tour event a year for 21 consecutive years; holds 173 doubles titles.
  
  
• Won 2003 Australian Open mixed doubles title w/Paes to become the third woman (after Court and Hart) to win singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments; was honoured by the WTA Tour at 2003 Amelia Island with an on-court presentation in recognition of completing a Super Slam, the first man or woman in Open Era to do so.
  
  
• Ranked No. 1 for a total of 331 weeks
  
  
• During the 2002 Madrid tournament, she received Marca newspaper's prestigious 'Leyenda' ('Legend') award
  
  
• Received the 1996 David Gray Service Award from the WTA Tour for her contribution to tennis.
  
  
• Voted WTT Female Most Valuable Player three years in a row (1991-93).
  
  
• Named Female Athlete of the Decade (80s) by The National Sports Review, UPI and AP;
  
  
• Named WTA Player of the Year, named Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year three times consecutively from 1982-84; named 1983 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year; received Women's Sports Foundation Flo Hyman Award in 1987; in 1981, named WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year a record eight consecutive years.
  
  
• No. 14 on Sports Illustrated's Top 40 Athletes list, named in its 40th Year Anniversary issue (September 1994) for significantly altering or elevating sports the last four decades.
  
  
• Elected as president of WTA Tour Players Association 1979/80, 1983/84 and 1994/95; vice-president 1993/94
  
  
• Has a life-size wax figure on display at the famed Grevin Wax Museum in Paris
  

Personal

• Supports numerous non-profit groups and charitable causes; contributes to scholarship funds for needy children and, along with friendly rival Chris Evert, competed in many exhibition matches to fund charities; contributed $150,000 in 1986 to the Women's Sports Foundation to support development of sports for women;
  
  
• Released autobiography Martina in June 1985. Co-wrote three mystery novels: The Total Zone was published in 1995, Breaking Point was published in 1996, Killer Instinct came out in 1998.
  
  
• Enjoys snow skiing, golf, basketball and horseback riding. Proficient reader of classics; also enjoys classical music and Katharine Hepburn films. Favourite TV shows are the Golden Girls and The Cosby Show.
  
  
• Participated in the creation of The Rainbow Card, a VISA credit card program targeted to the lesbian and gay community; Volunteers her services as a spokesperson for the Rainbow Card Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising and distributing funds to national gay and lesbian health care and education..