Martina Navratilova is doing “OK” after being identified with throat most cancers and breast most cancers.
“I’ve gone through a very difficult year but now I’m OK,” the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame mentioned on the Italian Open on Sunday after receiving the “Racchetta d’Oro” (Golden Racket) award for her contributions to the game.
The 66-year-old Navratilova mentioned in January that her prognosis was good and that she was going to start out therapy that month.
She mentioned then that she observed an enlarged lymph node in her neck whereas attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy confirmed early stage throat most cancers.
While Navratilova was present process exams on her throat, she mentioned, the unrelated, early stage breast most cancers was found.
Navratilova returned to her work as a TV analyst at Tennis Channel in March, when in an interview with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan, she mentioned she was informed by medical doctors that, “as far as they know, I’m cancer-free,” and she or he ought to be “good to go” after some extra radiation therapy.
Navratilova made her acceptance speech in Italian to the Campo Centrale crowd.
“Tennis gave me a surprising life for which I am very grateful,” she mentioned. “I always tried to give something back when I played, and also in retirement.”
Navratilova was a four-time runner-up in singles on the Foro Italico and a three-time champion in doubles — along with her final Rome title coming in 2003 with accomplice Svetlana Kuznetsova on the age of 46.
She received 59 Grand Slam titles general, together with 31 in ladies’s doubles and 10 in blended doubles. The final was a blended doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her fiftieth birthday.
Navratilova initially retired in 1994, after a report 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 within the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and infrequently competed in singles, too.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
