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Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-RHEE-yoo) turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the 2001 Australian Open with Ellis Ferreira. She reached the Australian Open women's doubles final with Davenport in 2005. Morariu was formerly ranked the world's number one female doubles player. In 2001, Morariu was diagnosed with leukemia and began a programme of chemotherapy, she had over 70 percent chance of survival due to her fit physique and young age, but the chemotherapy caused another serious side-effect, an accumulation of white cells resulting in the clogging of the lung-a condition that ended being life-threatening for Corina, she struggled between the life and the death for a month. While she was in this situation Jennifer Capriati dedicated her Roland Garros victory to her, she also received an inspirational letter from Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor. She has since made a full recovery and returned to competition. After a loss in the quarter-finals of the women's doubles at the US Open 2007 on September 19, Corina announced her retirement. She is an International Sports Ambassador for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She currently works as a commentator for Tennis Channel, having covered the 2009 French Open, US Open and the 2010 Australian Open. |
