Martina Navratilova will be inducted into the U. S. Open Court of Champions on September 10, PlanetOut reports. She will retire after this year’s tournament, but not before playing doubles and mixed doubles in the regular matches, and possibly singles in the new Champions Invitational for former Grand Slam finalists.
In related news, the U. S. Tennis Association recently announced it will rename the USTA National Tennis Center to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. This means that if Amelié Mauresmo wins this year’s U. S. Open, we’d have a lesbian trifecta of sorts. (This of course would make Jackie Warner’s line on this week’s Workout even funnier: “Just because I’m a lesbian doesn’t mean I play tennis.”)
