FEBRUARY 2017. Rebecca Marino’s father received a diagnosis no patient wanted to hear. Cancer. It was terminal. “He was told he had a year-and-ahalf to live,” she tells this daliy. “It was a life-altering moment. When you are faced with the mortality of someone so dear... it made me reflect on my life choices. Was there anything that when I was my father’s age, would I look back and say ‘I wish I had done this?’”
One of those life choices was her decision to retire from professional tennis as a 23-year-old in 2013 (she had already taken a mini-break). Both the diagnosis and the prognosis jolted her.
“I would love my father to see this so that’s when I decided to come back. So it’s a very happy thing in a way, coming from a sad thing. Luckily my father was able to see me back in tennis. Unfortunately he passed away in 2020 during the pandemic. But he saw me back in tennis, loving it, he was so supportive, he was so excited, it was like our passion... something we shared so closely was tennis. He was a huge tennis fan. For him to see me playing, it brought him a lot of joy. I am glad I was able to give him that.”
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