Tennis star reveals cancer to boost testing

MARTINA Navratilova, one of the finest female tennis players of all time, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

She said she had intended to keep the news to herself but changed her mind when she realised she could persuade other women to go for check-ups.

“I cried,” Navratilova, 53, said about the moment in February when a biopsy came back positive after a routine mammogram revealed a cluster in her left breast.