NEW YORK – Garbiñe Muguruza opened the second day of the U.S. Open by dedicating her win to a former top-10 player who had just revealed her cancer diagnosis.The No.
10 seed beat Nao Hibino 6-4, 6-4 in the first round Tuesday and thought about Carla Suarez Navarro, who share her diagnosis publicly earlier in the day.Suarez Navarro revealed in a tweeted video that she’ll need six months of chemotherapy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma.
She dropped out of the Grand Slam event last month with plans to retire.“I was expecting to see her in this tournament,” Muguruza said.
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