![]() Like many who endure chemo, Suarez Navarro lost her hair. ![]() “Because if the first session of chemotherapy was difficult or negative, the way you go through the other ones is not the same.” So that was really important for me,” Suarez Navarro says. “The first one, I had pain a little bit in my stomach, but after four days, I was feeling really good. Her approach to the situation was a familiar playbook: maintaining the encouraging drive that guided her to seven Grand Slam quarterfinals and 28 Top 10 wins. While Suarez Navarro was understandably nervous about her first chemotherapy session, during a pandemic no less, she was confident her background would lend an invisible hand in facing an unfamiliar opponent. ![]() Making adjustments and taking on new challenges are two qualities rooted in tennis players. So for me, it's a gift to be here again, to be able to play.” ![]() “Roland Garros for me is one of the best tournaments in the world. “I already won the most important match of my life,” she told earlier this week. 6 is in the French capital to play her first tournament since being declared cancer free. Thirteen years after leaving a lasting impressing with her outstanding run to the quarterfinals, Carla Suarez Navarro is back, beaming in Paris-carrying that identical enthusiasm but for reasons beyond the tennis court. Buoyed by determination and buckets of positivity, all five feet and four inches of this auspicious athlete captivated Roland Garros with an elegant backhand, effortless movement and enchanting smile. It was new territory for the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria native, though one would have hardly known with the way the sturdy Spaniard carried herself on court throughout the fortnight. 132 on the WTA tour qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. The following year, she was declared cancer-free and returned to the tour.In 2008, a 19-year-old ranked No. In September 2020, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma just months after announcing her retirement from tennis. ![]() These events were the 2009 Australian Open, where she defeated Venus Williams en route, the 2013 US Open, where she lost to eventual champion Serena Williams, the 2014 French Open, where she lost in three sets to Eugenie Bouchard, the 2016 Australian Open, where she lost to Agnieszka Radwańska, the 2018 Australian Open, where she was defeated by eventual champion Caroline Wozniacki, and the 2018 US Open, where she lost to Madison Keys. She reached another six Grand Slam quarterfinals in her career. That year she also began representing Spain in the 2008 Fed Cup. She first came to prominence by reaching the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open as a qualifier, in what was her first appearance in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. 6 on 29 February 2016, and a best WTA doubles ranking of 11, on 27 April 2015, and won two singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour. A former top 10 singles player, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. Carla Suárez Navarro ( Spanish pronunciation: born 3 September 1988, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. ![]()
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