Martina Navratilova serves up tennis art

Martina Navratilova, the tennis legend and winner of 354 titles, has made an exhibition of herself by hitting paint-soaked tennis balls against canvases.

For six years she been working in secret with the artist Juraj Kralik.



Now Art Grand Slam is on show at the Roland-Garros Stadium in France.

Kralik came up with the project in Navratilova's Czech home town, where she first learnt how to play the game.

He first put the idea to Navratilova in 2000. Between 2001 and 2005, the pair created the works on the courts of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments in New York, Melbourne, Paris and Wimbledon.

The tennis balls were covered in paint and hit onto a canvas that was hung on a wall or laid out on the ground at each of the four Grand Slam venues.