Martina Navratilova

Born 18 October 1956, Martina is best known as the Wimbledon 9 times ladies singles champion, in total she has 167 tennis titles.

Anyway why is she featuring in my art and literature hero blog, well we are in the middle of Wimbledon fortnight and as is typical the weather has yet again stopped play. So the dear old BBC is showing a biographical clip of Martina to fill in. For once thank goodness for a little rain.

I had forgotten the grace and beauty of Martina on court. In my mind she is an artist, her art is tennis and physical fitness. Not only that she the way she dealt with the disgraceful behaviour of the world's press as it probed into her private life, wow the lady deserves an award for that. Who the hell cares who or what a person sleeps with and why should that be anyone else's concern.

Martina was one of the first sports women to stand in contrast to the western worlds ideals of women in sport somehow maintaining the curvaceous form and be good at sport, preferring to enhance her game with muscle tone and conditioning which enabled her to dominate her sport for so long.

So from an avid fan of yours its game set and championship Miss Navratilova, you still rule, chick.