Martina Navratilova has brought name and fame to women’s tennis. So, she understands the value of the popularity of tennis as a sport. A rise in the audience who was interested in paying for the tour to watch her matches complimented her rise in tennis. She took to her Twitter to comment on the abhorrent prices of the tickets to the Laver Cup which are to be held in September in London.
Martina Navratilova chooses music concerts over expensive Laver Cup tickets.
What Navratilova said in the Tweet.
Martina Navratilova took to her Twitter to comment on the expensive tickets’ prices. Moreover, she did not even shy away from making comparisons of the tickets with those of pop stars’ concert tickets.
Why are Laver Cup tickets so expensive?
Roger Federer’s management firm, Team 8, organizes the Laver Cup. The Championship have always had more expensive tickets. This is because the concept of the whole tour is different where Team Europe is against Team World.
Navratilova-Chris Evert rivalry filled up the venues.
The rivalry between Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert is something that brought immense popularity to the women’s sport. Venues filled up when the players were against each other.
Navratilova-Evert head-to-head stats.
They were on the opposite sides of the court a whopping 80 times in their glorious careers. Out of that, the players met each other 60 times in the finals of different tours. Martina Navratilova reigned the H2H series between the two by the ratio of 43:37.