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The First Opponent Navratilova Feared was Breast Cancer
"I'm like, 'Positive is good'. I was in denial for a couple of seconds and then I cried for, I don't know, a minute. OK, what do we do?" said Navratilova.
On March 15, half-hour lumpectomy test was conducted on her, in which it was revealed that the cancer was not spread.
Martina, however, planned to keep it quiet.
"Nobody needs to know. But I went four years between mammograms. Another year and I could have been in trouble. I realised how many women put it off. I thought I'd use this to remind women to go for that checkup," she said.
A determined Martina, however, plans to compete in the French Open with Jana Novotná and begins her six-week course of radiation on May 12.
Two weeks later, she does not feel any ill effects.
"They say you get tired maybe week four, five, six. I'm feeling nothing," Martina said She played the first match of the French Open on June 2, and wins the French Open Legends on June 5.
The tennis star feels more tired climbing the stairs on June 9, and finally two-days later, she had on energy left even for her usual practice.
"My worst day by far. I went to hit the ball, and I was so tired I lost it. I had to stop, I had no energy and it usually gets worse," she said. The final day of treatment arrives on June 14, and three days after treatment, Martina decides to be very careful in the near future.
"I'll be very meticulous now about going to the doctor and getting those six month check ups and one-year check ups. I'm not going to let that lapse again," she said.
Finally, with both physical and emotional energy back to normal, she along with Jana wins the Ladies Invitation Doubles at Wimbledon on July 4.
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