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LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 10: Martina Navratilova of United States of America and Cara Black of Zimbabwe (not pictured) in action during the Ladies Invitational Doubles against Mary Joe Fernandez of United States of America and Ai Sugiyama of Japan (not pictured) at The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship at the All England Lawn and Tennis Club at Wimbledon on July 10, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images)

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LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 10: Martina Navratilova of United States of America and Cara Black of Zimbabwe (not pictured) in action during the Ladies Invitational Doubles against Mary Joe Fernandez of United States of America and Ai Sugiyama of Japan (not pictured) at The Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship at the All England Lawn and Tennis Club at Wimbledon on July 10, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images)
BBC Two has recently launched a show based on real-life tennis stars, called The Gods of Tennis. The show features legendary tennis players from all over the world. Some of the highlighted stars in the show include names like Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Chris Evert, and many more. Gods of Tennis talks about the time when tennis as a sport became prominent.
It includes a series of interviews of the magnanimous tennis players and their rise to popularity. The Guardian posted a featured image of the show to create hype about it. However, the image caught the attention of Martina, but not for the right reasons at all.
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Martina Navratilova points out a huge mess up by The Guardian
The Guardian has a tv and radio section in which it posts about upcoming shows. One such show that has caught the attention of people is Gods of Tennis which will soon be live on BBC Two. The episodes focus on how tennis players rose to victory and it also discusses various tournaments and the experience various players had during the time.
To promote the show, The Guardian posted a feature photo in which many players can be seen posing. It is clearly an edited image, but the worst part is that it is a wrongly edited image. Martina Navratilova is left-handed, and in the image, is shown as right-handed. Similarly, Chris Evert is right-handed and is shown as left-handed by them. A mistake like this is not an appropriate way to catch the limelight for the show.
TV tonight: the juicy story of how tennis became the sport of gods | Television & radio | The Guardian- pretty bad photo editing as they have Chris playing left handed and me playing right handed. Doesn’t say much about the actual story?🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/ElwkrdgpOx
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) June 4, 2023
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Martina was so disappointed with this editing that she took it to Twitter and posted about the huge mess up. She further added, “The Guardian- pretty bad photo editing as they have Chris playing left-handed and me playing right-handed. Doesn’t say much about the actual story?”
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Tennis fans are thrilled with this announcement
The Guardian messed up the feature image for the series really badly, but tennis fans are regardless very delighted to have such a series to watch. On the same Twitter thread, fans thanked her for the tip for this show and they are eager to watch it. Through this show, tennis fans can listen to the journey of their favorite stars directly from them.
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