Jana Novotná

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Born
1968 (58 years old)
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Brno, Czechoslovakia

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Tennis Player

Status
Retired

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White

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5 ft 9 in

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Tennis

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Jana Novotná (Czech pronunciation: ; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. Novotná won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998, and was runner-up in three other majors. Novotná also won 12 major women's doubles titles (completing a double career Grand Slam), four major mixed doubles titles, and three Olympic medals. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in 1997, and held the No. 1 ranking in doubles for 67 weeks.