Martina Navratilova defeats cancer: “I’ve emerged victorious”

On January 2, Martina Navratilova shocked the world of tennis with an announcement that nobody expected. One of the best tennis players in history announced that she had been diagnosed a month earlier with throat and breast cancer. Two ‘aces’ that went directly against the player from Prague, who began a treatment that has given the expected results ahead of schedule.

Navratilova, winner of a total of 59 career Grand Slam titles (18 singles and 41 doubles) During her career, she was the protagonist in the program of the British journalist Piers Morgan, where she announced that she was cured just two and a half months after her announcement. “As far as I’ve been told, I’m clean”, assured the Czech tennis player with an American passport. “I have to continue radiation to my right breast for two more weeks, but it’s more for prevention than anything else.”

The player who ranked number 1 in the world ranking for 332 weeks During her career, she offered an interview in which she revealed what the first moments were like when doctors diagnosed her with breast and throat cancer. “During the WTA Finals I noticed a swollen left lymph node, but I thought it was from a vaccination I had a few weeks before. Two weeks later it was still the same and I told my doctor.”

At that time the doctor did a biopsy and the result was not as expected. Neither for the doctor nor for the tennis player, who yesterday confessed her first reaction: “I was in total panic for three days. I thought, ‘OK, it’s December and I’ll see this Christmas, but I still don’t see the next one.'” Words and thoughts that are now just a bad memory for a legendary tennis player.

An incomparable track record… until Serena arrived

Martina Navratilova’s track record is unmatched in the world of tennis. She champion of 18 individual Grand Slams, including a total of nine Wimbledon titles that place her as the tennis player with the most trophies in All England. In a sports career that lasted until she was 50 years old, the tennis player born in Prague, but who came to compete under the United States flag, won a total of 59 Grand Slam titles if we also count the women’s doubles and doubles competitions. mixed. A number that rises to 167 individual titles in all tournaments on the women’s circuitof which today she is one of the great ambassadors.

Passionate about basketball since he was a child, Guillermo García has managed to make the sport of the basket his profession. He has a degree in Humanities from the Carlos III University and a Master in

Journalism, he started working at Marca in 2003, where he had time to do everything from football to reports and opinion, going through the closing section. In 2011 he began as a writer on the official NBA page in Spanish and since then he has covered basketball information with special attention to what is happening in the US. In addition, he has covered two Eurobasket, one World Cup and two Olympic Games, along with a multitude NBA playoffs. But the man lives not only on basketball and he has also been able to interview figures from other sports such as Usain Bolt, Simone Biles or Armand Duplantis.


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