Tennis star Anna Kournikova reveals major injury during first appearance in two years

Former tennis prima Anna Kournikova has been snapped for the archetypal clip successful years, sporting a caller injury.

Anna, 43, was a tennis fable who was besides a exemplary and tv property with Grand Slam titles to her sanction and reached a career-high astatine fig 8 worldwide.

The prima retired successful 2003 astatine the property of 21 aft a bid of injuries including a herniated disk and chronic backmost pain.

Since retiring, she has remained retired of the spotlight with her spouse Enrique Iglesias and hasn’t been snapped successful nationalist for the past 2 years.

The erstwhile tennis subordinate was seen successful a wheelchair portion with her daughters aged 7 and 4 connected a household buying travel successful Bal Harbour, Florida.

The prima wore an all-black outfit and a ample orthopaedic footwear connected her ft supporting her close leg.

In 1 image, Anna could beryllium seen with a pinkish formed connected her pinky finger, suggesting she’d injured much than conscionable her foot.

The prima archetypal became progressive successful 2001 and has 3 children together, a lad named Nicholas and a daughter, Lucy, calved successful 2017 who are fraternal twins. They besides person different daughter, Mary who was calved successful 2020.

Enrique and Anna person made a conscious effort to keep their children retired of the spotlight, remaining tight-lipped implicit the years connected the ins and outs of household life.

However, they person infrequently shared snaps of their children and household beingness connected societal media.

Enrique and Anna person ne'er married, but successful 2012 the vocalist referred to her arsenic his wife. He aboriginal clarified in an interrogation with Parade magazine: ‘It was conscionable meant to beryllium saccharine successful the moment. I honestly didn’t mean to confuse people. I thought it’d beryllium easier for the assemblage to recognize than if I said “my girl.”

‘I’ve ne'er truly thought matrimony would marque a difference. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I travel from divorced parents, but I don’t deliberation you emotion idiosyncratic much due to the fact that of a portion of paper.

‘And nowadays, it’s not taboo to person kids and not beryllium married. What makes a quality is that you’re a bully parent, period.’

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