Here's why Martina Navratilova thinks a key tournament venue should be renamed.
on Tuesday , Navratilova climbed into the umpire’s chair and attempted to address the crowd at Margaret Court Arena about an urgent matter: namely, Margaret Court Arena.
The issue at hand: While Margaret Court is indisputably one of the greatest tennis players who ever lived, she has for decades argued against LGBTQ rights and publicly spoken out against players and advocated boycotts of organizations that supported such rights. In recent years, there’s been a push to rename Margaret Court Arena—a push that’s been gathering more and more momentum with each passing year.
and the Goolagong National Development Camp, which focuses on the health, education, and employment of Indigenous children.about the issue. “When airports, buildings, streets or stadiums are named after particular people, it is done, or at least should be done, to honor exceptional human beings—our heroes,” she wrote. “Think Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Rosa Parks. ...
A day earlier, McEnroe starred in a madcap video featuring himself—dressed, oddly, in surgical scrubs and occasionally featuring jump cuts of himself strumming a power chord on an electric guitar—as “the self-appointed commissioner of tennis.”“The air quality in Melbourne is not the only nightmare that Tennis Australia is having,” McEnroe began. “Margaret Court is another one. ...
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