The recruitment of the Spaniard as ambassador reflects the country’s ambitious expansion plan, which aims to use tennis to boost the image-cleansing process it has embarked on with the spectacles of football, golf and Formula 1
This year’s tournament features several players who left the tour for a significant amount of time and now are back
The 66-year-old tennis legend said in January that her prognosis was good and that she was going to start treatment that month
The 35-year-old from Serbia returned to No. 1 this time by winning the Australian Open in January, jumping up from No. 5 to overtake Carlos Alcaraz
The legendary tennis player, who had a lumpectomy following a 2010 diagnosis, said she is committed to fighting the illness