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EASTBOURNE, England -- Nine-time Wimbledon champion Martina
Navratilova will briefly come out of retirement to partner Mariaan
de Swardt in doubles at the Eastbourne tournament in June.
Organizers said on Tuesday the pair had been handed a wild card
for the June 19-24 event, a grass-court tune-up immediately before
Wimbledon.
Navratilova, 43, won 10 singles titles at Eastbourne
and six successive doubles titles with Pam Shriver between 1981 and
1986. This will be her first appearance in the tournament in six
years.
De Swardt won the Eastbourne doubles title with Jana Novotna in
1998.
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