The death of Elena Baltacha makes this a sad day indeed.
Baltacha was a fine tennis player who battled ill health for most of her career. Despite this, she became British number 1 and rose to gain a place amongst the world's top 50 women players. While she was no world beater, her powerful style of play caused many upsets and she was always an exciting player to watch.
Ill health finally ground her down and she retired from competition in 2013 to concentrate on her tennis academy and family life. Sadly, she was destined to enjoy neither for very long and the liver cancer with which she was only diagnosed a few weeks ago has claimed her life at the tender age of 30.
The world of tennis, indeed the world itself, is much poorer for her passing.
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