Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has announced that she has been diagnosed with stage one double cancer , throat and breast. "It's a serious double blow, but still solvable," he told the WTA website, the association of professional tennis players.

"I hope for a favorable outcome. It will be difficult for a while, but I will fight with all the strength I have .'

Navratilova, born in Czechoslovakia and naturalized American, won 59 Grand Slams in her career ; he has faced and defeated cancer before, in the past. In 2010, at the age of 53, she was diagnosed with her first breast cancer.

“When they told me, I cried for 15 seconds. Then I said to the doctor: ok, now what do we do?». After she recovered, a large lymph node in her throat prompted her for a more thorough check-up last November. Hence the diagnosis.

Breast cancer is a human papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most treatable cancers.

Navratilova has announced that she will not be working as a Tennis Channel commentator for the upcoming Australian Open, and will begin treatment treatments in New York very soon.

(Unioneonline/vl)