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- <text id=93TT0369>
- <title>
- Oct. 11, 1993: Game, Set, Match
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 11, 1993 How Life Began
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 93
- Game, Set, Match
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- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> One hundred and sixty-five tournament victories and $19 million
- later, MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, the winningest, earningest play-er
- in tennis, is retiring her racquet. Last week she announced
- that 1994, her 22nd year in competition, would indeed be her
- last. "I'm looking forward to living a normal life," said the
- most successful tennis player in history, "since I don't know
- what normal is." Part of her new normal life will include a
- career as a mystery novelist. Navratilova, who admits to reading
- Dick Francis books "nonstop," has a $1 million contract with
- Villard to produce three thrillers. Navratilova and her collaborator
- will build the stories around the character of a lady tennis
- coach cum detective. Says the champion: "I'm delighted by the
- opportunity to use my insider's view of professional tennis
- during the last 20 years for something other than playing tennis."
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- </body>
- </article>
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