Zoe Hives

A debilitating blood disorder left Australia's Zoe Hives struggling to move. But the world No.124 is finally back on court after a three-year battle - and ...

It’s a dream come true really I get to walk out onto court and represent my country.” She knows all their little quirks and traits, and then pulls out a phone cover designed in the pattern of a cow. It’s made me grow a lot and I do appreciate every time I get to walk out on court. At the end of one match in Darwin, she tried to walk up a set of stairs and virtually collapsed. As simple as the acronym might sound, it’s a bastard of a condition to try to conquer. It’s the same path she took to make Wimbledon this year. It helped her enter the United Cup as Australia’s second singles representative behind Ajla Tomljanović, before she started with a At the end of a long stretch of travelling during 2019, as she closed in on the world’s top 100, Hives knew something wasn’t right. “To go to the farm, I had to have breaks and sit down just to see my cows. She laid flat in bed for the best part of a couple of years. “It was pretty much in the space of three months, and I was a mess,” Hives says. “I was barely on this earth [after a match in Japan].