Tributes pour in for 30-year-old cancer victim Baltacha

Laura Robson says Elena Baltacha will be “forever a team-mate” after the former British number one lost her fight against cancer.

Tributes pour in for 30-year-old cancer victim Baltacha
Tue, 06 May, 2014 - 09:24

Laura Robson says Elena Baltacha will be “forever a team-mate” after the former British number one lost her fight against cancer.

Baltacha was diagnosed with liver cancer in January, just two months after retiring from tennis and only weeks after she married her long-time coach Nino Severino.

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