She said: "I've had great support from the Twitter world, but the tennis world has come through with flying colours, I can't tell you how many people have been texting,

calling and sending me flowers, it's just been overwhelming. Everybody everywhere have been really amazing. It puts you face-to-face with mortality, number one. I said at the beginning

I wasn’t sure if it was treatable, so that was hard. "But once I got into the program, it was a little easier emotionally, but more difficult physically, between chemo and in proton

therapy, but I’m still standing. I made it up the stairs without using the elevator here, so it’s all good."