Martina Navratilova, a Czech-American tennis legend, had a stellar career on the doubles court thanks to her outstanding net play. The former player’s long list of doubles partners includes tennis greats such as Chris Evert and Pam Shriver.

However, during the 1980s, Navratilova’s regular doubles partner was the great American Shriver. The duo played doubles together in several Grand Slam events. And talking about their age difference, the duo had a significant 6-year gap. Earlier, the 66-year-old Navratilova had some lighthearted birthday banter with her iconic doubles partner regarding her age-related birthday wish.

Martina Navratilova joked around with Pam Shriver over her birthday wish

Martina Navratilova was born in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 18, 1956. On the eve of Navratilova’s birthday, her regular doubles partner, Pam Shriver, took to Twitter to wish her. The tweet had a funny age element mentioned in that, which read something like this, “My partner of 10 years @Martina is having another birthday, (she is way ahead of me) May she have many happy returns, just like she did on the tennis court.”

On the other hand, the 18-time Grand Slam winner continued the fun banter by replying to the birthday wish, “You just had to rub it in, didn’t you, partner?!?”

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Navratilova and Pam Shriver won 20 Grand Slam doubles titles, including 5 Wimbledon titles in their 10-year doubles partnership.

Navratilova and Shriver’s wins and losses with and against each other

The doubles pair of Navratilova and Shriver won 74 titles, including 7 Australian Open, 5 Wimbledon Open, 4 US Open, and 4 French Open. This makes them the team with the most major titles in history. They won 109 straight matches together during their career from 1983 to 1985.

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Talking about their head-to-head singles record, the two have clashed 43 times against each other, with Navratilova winning 40 of those. Interestingly, the nine-time Wimbledon winner has won all 8 singles finals against Shriver. Considering that Navratilova and Shriver had a 6-year age difference, their compatibility could easily be questioned. However, this did not seem to come in the way of their success, as they had won more than expected.