Martina Navratilova defected from communist Czechoslovakia at eighteen, came out as gay when sponsors would not touch her, revolutionized women’s tennis with a fitness regimen the sport had never seen, and won eighteen Grand Slam singles titles across four decades. Every limit the world tried to impose on her — political, physical, sexual, temporal — she broke through force of will and athletic genius.

This episode traces Navratilova from her Czech childhood through the defection, the rivalry with Chris Evert, the coming out that cost her millions, and the cancer battles she fought with the same ferocity she brought to Centre Court.

• The Czech childhood, the stepfather who coached her, and the defection that left her stateless at eighteen
• The fitness revolution that transformed women’s tennis from a finesse game to a power sport
• The Evert rivalry, eighteen singles Grand Slams, and dominance that spanned four decades
• Coming out, losing endorsements, the cancer diagnoses, and the unyielding defiance that defined her life