Martina Navratilova, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, gestures earlier than receiving the Racchetta d’Oro (Golden Racket) award from the Italian Tennis Federation forward of the lads’s last tennis match on the Italian Open tennis match in Rome, Italy, on May 21, 2023. Former Italian tennis participant Nicola Pietrangeli stands at left.
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Martina Navratilova says she is clear of cancer.
The tennis Hall of Famer introduced the information Monday on Twitter after what she stated was a full day of tests at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
“Thank you to all the doctors, nurses, proton and radiation magicians etc- what a relief,” she wrote.
Navratilova, 66, revealed she had been identified with throat cancer and breast cancer in January and that she would start therapy that month. She had been identified with a noninvasive type of breast cancer in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
The 18-time Grand Slam singles champion had observed an enlarged lymph node in her neck in November and a biopsy revealed the early stage throat cancer. But Navratilova felt effectively sufficient to return to her TV work with the Tennis Channel by the Miami Open in March.
