Martina Navratilova’s wife Julia Lemigova took up boxing to punch ‘fears aside’ over tennis icon’s double cancer diagnosis
Martina Navratilova’s wife took up boxing to punch her “fears aside” after the tennis icon was diagnosed with breast and throat cancer. Julia Lemigova, 50, who married the record-breaking Grand Slam winner, 66, in 2014, added she held back tears for her partner’s sake when she told her she had been diagnosed with the disease. She told the Daily Mail about taking up boxing three months ago amid fears Martina would not see the Christmas after she got news she had cancer: “I’m literally punching my fears aside; punching the panic out of myself and getting on with today.” Martina was diagnosed wit...