5 tennis stars who have run a marathon

#4 Marion Bartoli

The retired Wimbledon champion battled past her illness to run the New York City Marathon in 2016. In July, last year Bartoli has announced that she had been detected with a virus-related illness that did not allow her to eat and to touch electrical devices but she recovered from the same and four months later she ran for 42 kilometres without stopping.

Her determination and grit to just complete the entire stretch saw her notching up a time of 5 hours and 40 minutes. Bartoli’s efforts raised money for Team For Kids, an organisation which funds NYRR youth programs across the United States.