The Billie Jean King Cup was supposed to be a retirement party for Danielle Collins — her last event before saying goodbye to tennis and hopefully starting a family.
Instead she arrives in Malaga to represent the United States having decided to prolong her career. Collins deals with endometriosis, a condition in which cells similar to those which line the uterus grow elsewhere in the body. In the lead-up to her proposed retirement, medical experts told her that her endometriosis would mean it would take longer than she had hoped to get pregnant. She decided to return to the court, announcing the reversal of her retirement in October.