“I no longer have cancer, I thought I wouldn’t make it to Christmas” – Corriere.it

He was afraid of “not making it to next Christmas”. now, however, Martina Navratilov was able to breathe a sigh of relief. The tennis legend, who is 66 today, revealed in a TV interview with British journalist Piers Morgan that she will be broadcast in the next few hours that she has recovered from cancer. He had been diagnosed with two forms last November: one in the throat and one in the breast, the latter affected again after 13 years.

“After the diagnosis I was in total panic – she said -. I came up with a list of things I would do if I really only lived one more year.” Among these, also the adoption of a child together with his wife Yulia Lemigova, which was already in the plans, but also other «whims»: «This may seem very superficial, but for example I asked myself: “What incredible car do I want to drive if I really live only one year”»?

Fortunately, however, Navratilova will now be able to think more long-term. «The mental approach and the determination I had when I played tennis helped me to defeat the disease. Treatment is definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” Radiotherapy treatment which should last another couple of weeks, before the definitive response from the doctors. “But from what the doctors have told me, the cancer is gone.”