The tennis star is retiring, but says that RA never hindered her: “I’ve won some of my biggest titles of my career with this illness”
, 29, had been feeling more lethargic and sore than usual, but initially thought she had been overtraining, all until one difficult morning.
Wozniacki got her diagnosis right after Wimbledon, and realized that she managed to play all season — and won her first Grand Slam at the Australian Open that January — with RA.“I never even thought that me, as a professional athlete, could have RA,” she says. “It never crossed my mind that a healthy, strong athlete could have something like that.”
There is no cure for RA — it’s a chronic inflammatory disorder in which the immune system attacks the body’s tissue and joints — only medications and treatments. Wozniacki started figuring out what works for her body. Overall though, it’s been very manageable, and Wozniacki has played through the last year without too many issues.
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