Martina Navratilova has returned to TV work on the Miami Open, less than three months after saying she had throat and breast cancer.
“It is nice to be again. Thrilled to be right here,” the 18-time grand slam singles champion mentioned on the Tennis Channel on Tuesday.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Martina Navratilova reveals she is cancer-free.
Watch the most recent sport on Channel 7 or stream without cost on 7plus >>
“So joyful to be working. How many individuals can say that?”
The 66-year-old Navratilova mentioned her sense of style disappeared in the course of the therapy for most cancers and she or he misplaced 7kg.
She didn’t seem on tv in the course of the Australian Open in January or at Indian Wells earlier this month.
“It places you face-to-face along with your mortality, primary, as a result of originally I wasn’t certain if it was treatable, in order that was onerous,” she mentioned, wiping away tears.
“However as soon as I obtained into this system, it was a little bit simpler emotionally, however harder bodily. However I am nonetheless standing.”
In an interview with TalkTV’s Piers Morgan proven afterward Tuesday, Navratilova mentioned she had been informed by medical doctors that, “So far as they know, I am cancer-free”.
“I undoubtedly will not be lacking any of my checkups. I might be very, very diligent about it. However the prognosis is superb,” Navratilova mentioned.
Navratilova mentioned she observed an enlarged lymph node in her neck whereas attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Value, Texas, in November, and a biopsy confirmed early-stage throat most cancers.
Whereas she was present process assessments on her throat, she mentioned, the unrelated, early-stage breast most cancers was found.
Navratilova had beforehand been identified with a non-invasive type of breast most cancers in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She gained 59 grand slam titles general, together with 31 in girls’s doubles and 10 in combined doubles.
The final was a combined doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 US Open, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
Navratilova initially retired in 1994, after a file 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.
