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I’LL FIGHT WITH ALL I’VE GOT

CHALLENGES are nothing new to Martina Navratilova. She left her homeland to make a new life in America, she faced prejudice when she became one of the first major sports stars to come out as gay and she beat breast cancer in 2010.

So you could say that, at the age of 66, the 18-time Grand Slam winner was living her best life.

She and her wife, former beauty queen and reality show star Julia Lemigova, lived in a beautiful home in Miami with a menagerie of pets and Julia’s two daughters and Martina still travelled the world as a commentator at the biggest tennis tournaments.

Then came what she’s calling her “double whammy”: Martina was recently diagnosed

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