{"id":250489,"date":"2025-07-09T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250489\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T10:22:11","slug":"martina-navratilova-explains-snub-from-posh-wimbledon-restaurant-after-attempting-to-dine-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250489\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova explains snub from posh Wimbledon restaurant after attempting to dine there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was refused entry to The Ivy Cafe in Wimbledon after arriving with her dog Lulu carried in a shoulder bag.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-time Grand Slam champion, who has been covering the tournament for BBC, was turned away from the restaurant due to their pet policy.<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova shared a photograph of herself standing outside the establishment with Lulu visible in her bag.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old former World No 1 was forced to seek alternative dining arrangements after staff declined to allow her pet inside the venue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"0aa2d\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"b015cc9af9a29a326603522ed9b7c96d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202134%201417'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tennis-martina-navratilova.jpg\" width=\"2134\" height=\"1417\" alt=\"Tennis Martina Navratilova\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was refused entry to The Ivy Cafe in Wimbledon after arriving with her dog Lulu carried in a shoulder bag<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred whilst the tennis icon was attempting to have dinner at the popular Wimbledon restaurant during the tournament period.<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova took to social media platform X to shed light on the snub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell- tried to have dinner at the Ivy at Wimbledon, but they won\u2019t allow Lulu into the restaurant- so plan B,\u201d wrote the tennis legend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST IN: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/tennis\/bbc-sue-barker-wimbledon-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC commentator astonished by Sue Barker treatment after tennis icon made Wimbledon return<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well- tried to have dinner at the Ivy at Wimbledon, but they won\u2019t allow Lulu into the restaurant- so plan B <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mpNzsepgBx\">pic.twitter.com\/mpNzsepgBx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martina Navratilova (@Martina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1942653322910986438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet Navratilova had no time for their complaints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is on the floor. Get over it,&#8221; the Wimbledon legend retorted.<\/p>\n<p>Other fans instead chose to praise Navratilova and her decision to seek alternative dining arrangements, instead of arguing with staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST SPORTS NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are such a class act..how many people who aren\u2019t nowhere near as legendary as you are would have tried to pull rank?&#8221; said one.<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cMartina cannot be in? Becuase of Lulu? @Wimbledon please fix this. Martina should be allowed in any place of this universe where the word tennis is recognised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon resumes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5a9bb\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"2e5d26b16aaa3c157d5f029ca6d06f2f\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201735%201609'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/martina-navratilova.jpg\" width=\"1735\" height=\"1609\" alt=\"Martina Navratilova\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Martina Navratilova won nine Wimbledon titles during her playing days<\/p>\n<p>PA<\/p>\n<p>Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic are both in action, with the pair set to face Ben Shelton and Flavio Cobolli respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s singles, Iga Swiatek will lock horns with Liudmila Samsonova &#8211; while Mirra Andreeva faces Belinda Bencic.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Carlos Alcaraz beat Cam Norrie as he continues his quest for a third straight Wimbledon title. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Martina Navratilova was refused entry to The Ivy Cafe in Wimbledon after arriving with her dog&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[93,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-250489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sport","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822784452520950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}