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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has returned to TV work on the Miami Open, lower than three months after saying she had throat and breast most cancers.
“It is nice to be again. Thrilled to be right here,” the 18-time grand slam singles champion stated on the Tennis Channel on Tuesday.
“So blissful to be working. How many individuals can say that?”
The 66-year-old Navratilova stated her sense of style disappeared through the treatment for cancer and he or she misplaced seven kilograms.
She didn’t seem on tv through the Australian Open in January or at Indian Wells earlier in March.
“It places you face-to-face together with your mortality, No.1, as a result of at the start I wasn’t positive if it was treatable, in order that was arduous,” she stated, wiping away tears.
“However as soon as I received into this system, it was a bit simpler emotionally, however harder bodily. However I am nonetheless standing.”
In an interview with TalkTV‘s Piers Morgan present afterward Tuesday, Navratilova stated she has been informed by medical doctors that, “So far as they know, I am cancer-free”.
“I positively will not be lacking any of my check-ups. I will likely be very, very diligent about it. However the prognosis is superb,” Navratilova stated.
Navratilova stated she seen 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 stated, the unrelated, early stage breast most cancers was found.
Saying her “double whammy” of most cancers in January, Navratilova stated it was “severe however nonetheless fixable”.
“I am hoping for a good end result,” she stated.
“It is going to stink for some time however I’ll combat with all I’ve received.”
Navratilova had beforehand been recognized with a non-invasive type of breast most cancers in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She received 59 grand slam titles general, together with 31 in girls’s doubles and 10 in blended doubles.
The final was a blended doubles championship with Bob Bryan on the 2006 US Open, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
Navratilova initially retired in 1994, after a document 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.
– with AAP
