Carla Suárez

played her last match in February 2020, in the Qatar tournament, against

Petra Kvitova

. On September 2, he made public that he suffered from Hodkin's lymphoma, a cancer that he has managed to overcome. A few weeks ago he trained on the courts of the Caja Mágica, during the Mutua Madrid Open, and this Tuesday he traveled to Paris, where he will return to the courts to say goodbye to tennis. “I really want to play at Roland Garros, my favorite tournament. I am very excited after everything that happened to be able to be here one more year, for the last time ", she communicated through a video.

It will be her twelfth participation in a tournament where she reached the quarterfinals in 2008 and 2014, led by

Xavi Budó

, the coach who trained her and with whom she achieved her best results and climbed to number six in the world in February 2016.

Willingness

«I am counting the hours until the day arrives.

I've had it 'in mind' all this time and I've been training for it, "added the 32-year-old tennis player.

Suárez, winner of six titles, today 118th, has undergone radiotherapy chemotherapy in Barcelona and has always gone through this very delicate situation in good spirits.

"I have never wondered why it happened to me," he said in an interview with this newspaper last November, eloquent words about the predisposition with which he faced the disease.

In addition to the affection of those closest to her and friends like

Garbiñe Muguruza

, she was not short of messages of support from many of her colleagues, including

Simona Halep

and

Venus Williams

.

The Canarian player had planned to hang up the racket last year, but the pandemic and the serious mishap in her health led her to decide to give herself an opportunity to say goodbye on a tennis court, a sport she has been practicing for more than three decades.

At the end of April he announced that he had overcome the disease.

He has been working out in the gym for weeks and regaining touch with the ball so he can carry out the dream of saying goodbye in his favorite setting.

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