--- title: Martina Navratilova: Margaret Court Is 'Racist Homophobe' description: Women's tennis legend Martina Navratilova says Margaret Court doesn't deserve to have an arena in Melbourne named after her canonical: https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-01T09:52:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:12:17.137Z article:section: Sports og:title: Martina Navratilova Calls Margaret Court 'Racist Homophobe' og:description: A war of words escalates between the two tennis legends og:url: https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1da97c5eaa79d3b/6988cfbb8fd2ee107c3574f0/gettyimages-618932814.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: BNP Paribas WTA Finals: Singapore 2016 - Day Seven og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Martina Navratilova Calls Margaret Court 'Racist Homophobe' twitter:description: A war of words escalates between the two tennis legends twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1da97c5eaa79d3b/6988cfbb8fd2ee107c3574f0/gettyimages-618932814.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Martina Navratilova Says Margaret Court Is a 'Racist Homophobe' Who Doesn't Deserve an Arena Named After Her > Sponsored content. 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In an [open letter](http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/an-open-letter-from-martina-navratilova-to-margaret-court-arena-20170601-gwhuyx.html) penned to the Margaret Court Arena, published by the _Sydney Morning Herald_, Navratilova argued that talent in a particular field is not enough to warrant naming a venue after an individual. “In other words, it is not just for what this person did on the field, on the court, in politics, arts or science, for instance, but also for _who_ they are as human beings,” the opening paragraph reads. The winner of [62 Grand Slam titles](http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2011/06/22/30-legends-of-womens-tennis-past-present-and-future/slide/margaret-court/), Court returned to headlines in recent weeks after she [announced](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/25/margaret-court-vows-to-stop-flying-qantas-over-marriage-equality-stance) that she would boycott Qantas Airways over the company’s [support of same-sex marriage](http://fortune.com/2017/05/10/qantas-alan-joyce-pie/), vowing [in an open letter](https://thewest.com.au/sport/tennis/gay-set-and-match-tennis-legend-margaret-court-boycotts-qantas-ng-b88487658z) to “use other airlines where possible for my extensive traveling.” After saying she had forgiven her for [having taken a shot](http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-12/sports/sp-284%5F1%5Fmargaret-court) at her sexuality back in 1990, Navratilova went on to rip Court for “unabashed racist statements” she reportedly made in the 1970s about apartheid in South Africa, and for her more recent string of anti-LGBT comments. On Wednesday, Court [lamented in an interview](https://vision.org.au/radio/2017/05/31/13527/) with the Vision Christian Radio station that “tennis is full of lesbians,” comparing homosexuals to “the devil.” Court further likened LGBT activists to Hitler, according to the _Guardian_, claiming that they “get \[into\] the minds of the children.” Navratilova did not hold back in her riposte. “Linking LGBT to Nazis, communists, the devil? This is not OK.” “It is now clear exactly who Court is: an amazing tennis player, and a racist and a homophobe,” she writes, accusing Court of “actively trying to keep LGBT people from getting equal rights” as well as “demonizing trans kids and trans adults everywhere.” “We should not be celebrating this kind of behavior, this kind of philosophy,” she concludes with a call to rechristen the arena. “The platform people like Margaret Court use needs to be made smaller, not bigger.” \[[_SMH_](http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/an-open-letter-from-martina-navratilova-to-margaret-court-arena-20170601-gwhuyx.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/"},"headline":"Martina Navratilova Says Margaret Court Is a 'Racist Homophobe' Who Doesn't Deserve an Arena Named After Her","datePublished":"2017-06-01T09:52:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:12:17.137Z","description":"Navratilova said that talent in a particular field is not enough to warrant naming an institution after an individual","url":"https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/","keywords":["tennis","Australia","LGBTQ","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1da97c5eaa79d3b/6988cfbb8fd2ee107c3574f0/gettyimages-618932814.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1da97c5eaa79d3b/6988cfbb8fd2ee107c3574f0/gettyimages-618932814.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BNP Paribas WTA Finals: Singapore 2016 - Day Seven","caption":"BNP Paribas WTA Finals: Singapore 2016 - Day Seven","creditText":"Clive Brunskill—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tennis/","name":"tennis"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4800749/tennis-martina-navratilova-margaret-court-arena-rename/","name":"Martina Navratilova Says Margaret Court Is a 'Racist Homophobe' Who Doesn't Deserve an Arena Named After Her"}}]}] ```