There was a moment last November, as Martina Navratilova confided in her friend and one-time tennis rival Chris Evert she had cancer, when they could only giggle.
With bizarre coincidence, Martina’s devastating news of two early-stage cancers, in her throat and breast, landed less than 12 months after Chris’s own shock diagnosis of Stage 1C ovarian cancer in January last year.
“Jesus. I guess we’re taking this to a whole new level,” Martina said, sparking those giggles. "Because it was just so ironic,” Chris added, explaining their dark humour. These titans of women’s tennis, Czechoslovakia Martina, 66, and American Chris, 68, have spent half a century in hot pursuit, in one way or another.
