{"id":1792821,"date":"2023-01-02T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792821"},"modified":"2023-01-02T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T17:35:50","slug":"tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-announces-cancer-double-whammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-announces-cancer-double-whammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova, Tennis Legend Announces Her Cancer \u2018Double Whammy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennis-legend-martina-navratilova-announces-cancer-double-whammy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1792821&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Tennis legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-find-it-really-really-cowardly-martina-navratilova-rips-australian-open-for-asking-fans-to-remove-where-is-peng-shuai-t-shirts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martina Navratilova<\/a> A diagnosis of a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d Cancer of the breast and throat.<\/p>\n<p>The Stage 1 cancer of the throat was being tested on the 66 year-old female athlete. She had previously been diagnosed in 2010 with breast cancer and had undergone a lumpectomy as well as radiation treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I\u2019m hoping for a favorable outcome,\u201d Navratilova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com\/news\/articles\/martina-navratilova-diagnosed-with-stage-1-throat-cancer-early-stage-breast-canc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Tennis.com<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s going to stink for a while, but I\u2019ll fight with all have I got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova noticed a lump in her neck while she was working as an analyst at WTA Finals, Fort Worth, Texas. The HPV-type throat cancer responds well to treatment and she will start treatment in a few weeks. She previously spoke of being a cancer survivor. Now, she will rely on her resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really didn\u2019t talk much about breast cancer before I had it,\u201d Navratilova told\u00a0PEOPLE magazine. \u201cNow, I\u2019m approached by women and we share our stories. It\u2019s encouraging to see that there\u2019s life after cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova won 59 Grand Slam titles in singles and doubles as well as mixed events during a career that began in mid-1970s. This was around the time when she left Czechoslovakia to play in the 1975 U.S. Open semifinals. After a record 167 singles titles as well as 331 weeks at No.1, Navratilova decided to retire in 1994. She was No. 1 in WTA rankings but she played doubles again in 2000. She won the 2006 U.S. Open mixed-doubles tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITAH) in 2000. She has also worked as a television analyst on tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova has been a champion of gay rights since she came out to the world as a lesbian back in 1980. In 2019, she spoke out against biological males playing against women in sports. She was then attacked by the transcommunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whattowatch.com\/news\/martina-navratilova-transgender-athletes-bbc-row-blew-up-582281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she quickly changed her position<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt blew up and I realized perhaps I don\u2019t know as much as I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Monday statement, Navratilova\u2019s representative said she would not be a regular part of Tennis Channel\u2019s coverage of the Australian Open later this month \u201cbut hopes to be able to join in from time to time\u201d via video conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with a \u201cdouble whammy\u201d of cancer of the throat and breast. The 66-year-old athlete was undergoing tests related to Stage 1 throat cancer when the breast cancer was discovered. She was previously diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 and underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatments. \u201cThis double whammy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1792824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4156,8047,6202,4534,9610,12895,12894,9609,12893,6195],"class_list":["post-1792821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-announces","tag-cancer","tag-daily","tag-double","tag-legend","tag-martina","tag-navratilova","tag-tennis","tag-whammy","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}