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Martina Navratilova Shuts Down a Fan Who Asked Her to Stick to Tennis After She Shared Details About Leonardo DiCaprio’s Alleged Breakup

Published 09/02/2022, 4:01 PM EDT

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Former Czech-American tennis player Martina Navratilova is currently covering the US Open as a commentator. Apart from that, she has also remained active on social media, expressing her opinion on other matters aside from tennis.

It is worth noting that Navratilova has been one of the most active tennis personalities social media, particularly on Twitter. Recently, she talked about the dating life of the Oscar-winning Hollywood star, Leonardo DiCaprio. 

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Martina Navratilova talks about Leonardo DiCaprio’s dating history 

Earlier, Navratilova came across a tweet, which showed the history of DiCaprio’s dating life. According to the tweet, DiCaprio breaks up with his girlfriends when they reach the age of 25. Replying to that tweet, Navratilova said, Yikes…

Then, a Twitter user tried to troll the former tennis player, as hewrote, “who has the time to do something like this . . get a life maybe do something on how many double faults Pete Sampras made in his career, HA HA HA.”

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However, Navratilova shut down that Twitter user with a perfect reply. She wrote, “Yet you have the time to complain what a waste of time this was:)”

Notably, Navratilova never backs down from banter, as she often gives befitting replies to her haters. Moreover, she also defends other people from unnecessary hatred. Once, she educated a Twitter user, who was trying to spread hatred toward Beyonce for her dressing sense. However, Navratilova quickly jumped to defend the singer, as she calmly destroyed that Twitter user with pure facts.

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Apart from that, we have also seen Navratilova taking a dig at certain personalities from other sporting worlds and also from politics.

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Navratilova picked her winner of the US Open 2022

Notably, Navratilova has been working as an expert for Amazon Prime during this year’s US Open. During an interview, she talked about Emma Raducanu winning last year’s US Open, as she gave her a good chance to win this year as well. Unfortunately, she lost in the first round to  Alize Cornet.

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Apart from Raducanu, the former tennis player also picked Coco Gauff, Madison Keys, and other tennis players to cause a few upsets in this year’s US Open. However, she thought there will be no surprise winner this time at the US Open, like last year when Raducanu won.

Who will win this year’s US Open? Let us know in the comments.

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Debkinkar Maity is a Tennis Author at EssentiallySports. His desire to become a sports journalist inspired him to take up a degree in journalism and mass communication, and he hasn't looked back ever since. Following the sport for over a decade now, Debkinkar has an ardent love for Roger Federer.
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