Tennis legend reveals 'serious' cancer battle

Tennis large Martina Navratilova says that she has been diagnosed with pharynx crab and bosom cancer.

In a connection released by her representative, the 18-time expansive slam singles champion and subordinate of the International Tennis Hall of Fame said her prognosis is bully and she volition commencement attraction this month.

"This treble whammy is superior but inactive fixable, and I'm hoping for a favourable outcome," the 66-year-old Navratilova said. "It's going to stink for a portion but I'll combat with each person I got."

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She said she noticed an enlarged lymph node successful her cervix portion attending the season-ending WTA Finals successful Fort Worth, Texas, successful November, and a biopsy showed aboriginal signifier pharynx cancer. While Navratilova was undergoing tests connected her throat, she said, the unrelated bosom crab was discovered.

Navratilova was diagnosed with a noninvasive signifier of bosom crab successful 2010 and had a lumpectomy.

She won 59 expansive slam titles overall, including 31 successful women's doubles and 10 successful mixed doubles. The past was a mixed doubles title with Bob Bryan astatine the 2006 US Open, a period shy of her 50th birthday.

Tennis large Martina Navratilova, pictured astatine Wimbledon successful 2015, has been diagnosed with cancer. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Navratilova primitively retired successful 1994, aft a grounds 167 singles titles and 331 weeks astatine No.1 successful the WTA rankings. She returned to the circuit to play doubles successful 2000 and occasionally competed successful singles, too.

Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame successful 2000. She has worked arsenic a TV expert successful caller years.

The connection said Navratilova would not beryllium a regular portion of Tennis Channel's sum of the Australian Open aboriginal this period "but hopes to beryllium capable to articulation successful from clip to time" via video conference.

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