Martina Navratilova says she's doing 'OK' after being identified with most cancers

Martina Navratilova is doing “OK” after being identified with throat most cancers and breast most cancers.

“I’ve gone by way of a really troublesome 12 months however now I am OK,” the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the Worldwide Tennis Corridor 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 begin remedy that month. She mentioned then that 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 Navratilova was present process assessments 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 instructed by docs that, “so far as they know, I am cancer-free,” and he or she ought to be “good to go” after some further radiation remedy.

Navratilova made her acceptance speech in Italian to the Campo Centrale crowd.

“Tennis gave me a stunning life for which I’m very grateful,” she mentioned. “I all the time tried to provide one thing again after I performed, and in addition 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 total, together with 31 in ladies’s doubles and 10 in combined doubles. The final was a combined 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 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 sometimes competed in singles, too.