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Navratilova was the runner-up at two Grand Slam singles tournaments in 1975.

She lost in the final of the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley and in the final of the French Open to Chris Evert.

After losing to Evert in the semifinals of that year's US Open, the 18-year-old Navratilova went to the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City and informed them that she wished to defect from Communist Czechoslovakia.

Within a month, she received a green card.