By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday March 23, 2023
Martina Navratilova has made a successful recovery from throat and breast cancer.
The tennis legend, an 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, was diagnosed in January and fell into a panic. After months of treatment she has been told she is “good to go” by her doctors.
"As far as they know, I'm cancer-free," she said, adding that she has a bit of additional radiation treatment to finish.
This week, the nine-time Wimbledon champion returned to the commentator’s booth at the Miami Open, where she is working for Tennis Channel.
She made her first appearance alongside Mark Petchey and talked about her experience.
"It puts you face-to-face with mortality, number one, because at the beginning I wasn’t sure if it was treatable, so that was hard,” she said on-air. “But once I got into the program, it was a little easier emotionally, but more difficult physically, between chemo and in proton therapy it beat me up, but I’m still standing. I made it up the stairs without using the elevator here, so it’s all good."