According to Katie Campione of People Magazine, women’s tennis player Carla Suarez Navarro of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain has announced she is cancer-free after an eight-month battle with Hodgkin Lymphoma. Suarez Navarro announced her retirement this past December at age 32 after playing 13 seasons of professional women’s tennis on the WTA Tour from 2008 to 2020.
Suarez Navarro reached seven grand slam quarterfinals in her career. She was part of the final eight of the 2008 and 2014 French Open, the 2009, 2016, and 2018 Australian Open, and the 2013 and 2018 United States Open. It was right before the 2020 United States Open that Suarez Navarro announced she would not be participating at the second grand slam event of the year due to a health condition.
In her career, Suarez Navarro won two WTA titles. The first came at the 2014 Portugal Open, as Suarez Navarro defeated two-time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the final. Kuznetsova won the 2004 United States Open and the 2009 French Open. The second WTA title came at the 2016 Qatar Open, as Suarez Navarro defeated 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the prestigious Premier 5 event.
Suarez Navarro reached as high as sixth in the world in 2016. At the time, she was only behind Serena Williams of the United States, Angelique Kerber of Germany, Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, Garbine Muguruza of Spain, and Simona Halep of Romania.
Suarez Navarro also had an instant impact in her tennis career. At the 2008 French Open, the first grand slam of her career, she was able to reach the quarterfinals as a qualifier. Earlier this year, former Australian tennis coach Bob Brett died of cancer at the age of 67.
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