Grand Slam winner cheering: I won over cancer

The senmeste seven months have been hideous for Francesca Schiavone. The 39-year-old former tennis player has been through a hard behandligsforløb against can

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
13 December 2019 Friday 18:00
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Grand Slam winner cheering: I won over cancer

The senmeste seven months have been hideous for Francesca Schiavone.

The 39-year-old former tennis player has been through a hard behandligsforløb against cancer. But on Friday, she was ready with the good news.

It explained a clearly moved Schiavone in a video on his Instagram profile:

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"HI everyone, upon 7-8 of silence from social media and from the world, I wish to share with you what happened to me. A cancer had been diagnosed to me. I did chemotherapy, In fought a though battle and now I am still breathing. I have won this fight. And now I am back in action".

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'I will tell you what has happened in the past few days in my life.'

'seven months ago I was diagnosed with a malignant tumor. It has been the hardest and most definitive battle I've ever fought.'

'The best part is that I won the fight. When they told me it for a couple of days ago exploded I of happiness', says Schiavone.

Schiavone was at the peak of his career in this decade, where she in 2010 in the finals of the French Open, defeated australian Samantha Stosur and thus became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam. And the following year she became a fourth place in the world ranking the best female Italian tennis player through the ages.

In the spring was Schiavone coach of Caroline Wozniacki, as she helped grusturneringerne in the UNITED states before the French Open. The project she had set in because of the disease, but in the video tells the Italian that she is now back and ready for new projects.

Caroline Wozniacki had to stretch the arms against Schiavone in the quarter-finals of the French open in 2010, and later helped the Italian team to improve his game on clay. Photo: Clive Brunskill//Ritzau Scanpix

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Updated: 13.12.2019 18:00