A walk on the BallenIsles grounds early in the day found Dr. Earl Azimov, an optometrist from Montreal, Canada, who also owns the cutting edge Global Clean Energy company, watching his good friend Ernie Fink play. Fink, also from Montreal but a well-known teaching pro in the Orlando, Fla. area, was playing his Men’s 50 first-round match against American Rill Baxter.
As it turned out, Azimov lost in the qualifying rounds the day before, but will play doubles with Fink. Azimov, however, wasn’t at all upset about his loss to Carlos Garcia in the third round of qualifying, even admitting: “He slaughtered me. It was too hot for my Canadian blood.”
But there was another reason that Azimov was happy to just be playing in the Seniors World Championships. The last time he played the event was when it was in Mallorca, Spain five years ago. While he was in Mallorca he said he kept complaining his stomach hurt.
When he went home it was discovered he had non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. During his battle against cancer his mother, a Holocaust survivor, offered him these inspirational words of wisdom: “If I can survive Auschwitz you can survive cancer.” And she was right.
So for Azimov, who played college tennis for Coastal Carolina in the 80s, being back at the World Championships is already a major victory. As he puts it: “Every day is a good day, win or lose. If you’re breathing it’s a good day.” And yes, in case you’re wondering, Azimov was a cousin of the late science fiction great Isaac Asimov.
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