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Anna Kournikova of Russia rests with Martina Hingis of Switzerland during their Ladies' Invitational doubles match against Anne Hobbs and Samantha Smith of Great Britain on Day Eight of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 29, 2010 in London, England.
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Martina Hingis in action during the World TeamTennis tournament at Villanova University on July 21, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2010
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Martina Hingis in action during the World TeamTennis tournament at Villanova University on July 21, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2010
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Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova prepare to play against Pat Cash and Mats Wilander during day eleven of the 2010 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2010 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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2010
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Martina Hingis plays against Pat Cash and Mats Wilander during day eleven of the 2010 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2010 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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2010
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Anna Kournikova of Russia and her partner Martina Hingis take a break during the Women's Doubles on day eight of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 29, 2010 in London, England.
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2011
Paris, France
Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis in action during the women's legends final match between Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis and Andrea Temesvari and Sandrine Testud on day fourteen of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 4, 2011 in Paris, France.
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2011
Paris, France
Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis celebrate a point during the women's legends final match between Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna and Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 5, 2011 in Paris, France.
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2011
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a backhand during the Ladies' Invitation double match against Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna on Day Thirteen of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2011 in London, England.
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2011
Tokyo, Japan
Martina Hingis demonstrates during the Yonex Youth Clinic at REC Indoor Tennis School on August 28, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan.
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2011
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Switzerland's Martina Hingis arrives for her lady's invitational match on day eight of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon.
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2011
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Martina Hingis during the match with her partner Lindsay Davenport against Jana Novotna and Martina Navratilova in the Ladies' Invitation Doubles final on day thirteen of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon.
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2013
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a forehand during her doubles quarter-final match with Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia against Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears at the Southern California Open Day Five at La Costa Resort & Spa on August 2, 2013 in Carlsbad, California.
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2013
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a return during her doubles match during day 2 of the Rogers Cup, Toronto, at Rexall Centre (later Aviva Centre) at York University on August 6, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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2013
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a shot in her doubles match during the Western & Southern Open on August 12, 2013 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland in action during a practice session on Day Three of the 2013 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2013 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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2013
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Martina Hingis shoots autographed balls to the audience during day five of the Toray Pan Pacific Open at Ariake Colosseum on September 26, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Achievements
1997
Martina Hingis kisses the trophy.
Membership
Awards
Laureus World Sports Award
2006
Laureus World Sports Award
Summer Olympics Silver Medal
2016
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland poses on the podium during the ceremony for the women's doubles on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Anna Kournikova of Russia rests with Martina Hingis of Switzerland during their Ladies' Invitational doubles match against Anne Hobbs and Samantha Smith of Great Britain on Day Eight of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 29, 2010 in London, England.
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Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova prepare to play against Pat Cash and Mats Wilander during day eleven of the 2010 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2010 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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Martina Hingis plays against Pat Cash and Mats Wilander during day eleven of the 2010 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 9, 2010 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
Church Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AG, United Kingdom
Anna Kournikova of Russia and her partner Martina Hingis take a break during the Women's Doubles on day eight of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 29, 2010 in London, England.
Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis in action during the women's legends final match between Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis and Andrea Temesvari and Sandrine Testud on day fourteen of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 4, 2011 in Paris, France.
Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis celebrate a point during the women's legends final match between Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna and Lindsay Davenport and Martina Hingis on day fifteen of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 5, 2011 in Paris, France.
Church Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 5AG, United Kingdom
Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a backhand during the Ladies' Invitation double match against Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna on Day Thirteen of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2011 in London, England.
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Switzerland's Martina Hingis arrives for her lady's invitational match on day eight of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon.
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Martina Hingis during the match with her partner Lindsay Davenport against Jana Novotna and Martina Navratilova in the Ladies' Invitation Doubles final on day thirteen of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon.
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a forehand during her doubles quarter-final match with Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia against Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears at the Southern California Open Day Five at La Costa Resort & Spa on August 2, 2013 in Carlsbad, California.
Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a return during her doubles match during day 2 of the Rogers Cup, Toronto, at Rexall Centre (later Aviva Centre) at York University on August 6, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland hits a shot in her doubles match during the Western & Southern Open on August 12, 2013 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland in action during a practice session on Day Three of the 2013 United States Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 28, 2013 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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Martina Hingis shoots autographed balls to the audience during day five of the Toray Pan Pacific Open at Ariake Colosseum on September 26, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Martina Hingis of Switzerland poses on the podium during the ceremony for the women's doubles on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 14, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Unraveling Athena: The Champions of Women's Tennis
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Exploring the interweaving lives and narrative of female tennis royalty as told through the words of the players themselves, Unraveling Athena provides an extraordinary insight into the mind of the professional athlete and the ultimate exploration of what it takes to make a champion.
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player who became the youngest person in the "open" era to win a Grand Slam singles title and the youngest to be ranked world number one. In her relatively short, injury-plagued career, she won five Grand Slam singles titles.
Background
Ethnicity:
Martina's mother is a Czech and her father is a Hungarian.
Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980 in Kosice, Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia). Her father, Karol Hingis, was a mechanic and a tennis enthusiast. Her mother, Monica Molitor, was an eighteen-year-old ranked tennis player from Roznov when she married Hingis; Martina was their only child. Even before her daughter's birth, Molitor was convinced that Hingis was destined for tennis.
Education
Hingis first picked up a racket at the age of two, using a full-sized wooden racket with the grip cut away so she could get her small hand around it. At the age of three, the family moved to Roznov, and Hingis began playing on tennis courts. She entered her first tournament when she was four, which she lost handily, 12-0, to an older player.
Hingis's parents divorced when she was three, and her father returned to Kosice. Coached by her mother, Hingis began to compete regularly. By the age of six, she had won 80 official matches. At the age of seven, she won a tournament for nine-year-olds playing left-handed due to a broken finger on her right hand. When Hingis was eight years old, her mother married Andreas Zogg, a Swiss computer salesman, and the family moved to Trubbach, Switzerland, near the Swiss border with Liechtenstein.
As a nine-year-old, Hingis began playing in international tournaments for fourteen-year-olds. Within a year, she was winning some of them. Taking the title at the European Championships in 1991, Hingis began a winning streak that would propel to the top of the professional ranks. The following year, at the age of twelve, she became the youngest player ever to win the Junior French Open, which is open to players up to eighteen years old. When she was thirteen, she won the Junior U.S. Open and the Junior Wimbledon, setting records for both as the tournament's youngest winner.
Hingis turned professional in 1994, just four days after her fourteenth birthday. For Hingis, tennis was fun, as was traveling the world with her mother, receiving unending attention from the press, and earning millions in endorsement contracts. Winning, Hingis would often unabashedly admit, was easy. She didn't like to practice and traded traditional workouts for horseback riding, hitting a punching bag, and rollerblading. Her ability did not lie in a dominating forehand or a killer serve; rather, Hingis's primary talent was an innate sense of how to play out points - how to manipulate each volley to set up the winning shot.
At a time when women's tennis was reeling from problems caused by overzealous parents, Molitor received high marks for allowing Hingis to balance tennis with other interests. At most Hingis practiced a couple of hours a day and filled her time with movies, dates, horseback riding, and other teenage activities. Hingis signed a five-year contract with United States based-agency International Management Group in 1993. Her endorsement deals included Yonex rackets and Opel automobiles, and she inked a contract with the sportswear company Sergio Tacchini for $10 million.
Hingis made her debut on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour in Zurich as a wild card, ranked No. 378. She won her first professional match, but then lost to fifth-ranked Pierce, 6-4, 6-0. During the 1995 season, she won her first match at a Grand Slam event by beating Lindsay Davenport, ranked No. 7 at the time, in the Australian Open. She reached her first singles finals that year in Hamburg. In 1996, Hingis continued to gain ground in the rankings after finishing 1995 with a year-end ranking at No. 16. She managed to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, and she defeated Graf, ranked No. 1, in the Italian Open quarterfinals before losing to Conchita Martinez in the finals. At Wimbledon, she became the youngest player (15 years, 282 days) to win by taking the doubles title with Helena Sukova. She also became the youngest player to reach the semifinals of the United States Open. Before she turned sixteen, Hingis had become the youngest player, male or female, to earn $1 million on the court. She finished the 1996 season ranked No. 4.
On March 31, 1996, after defeating Monica Seles in the Lipton Championships, 6-2, 6-1, Hingis attained the No. 1 ranking, the youngest player to do so since computer rankings were instituted in 1975. She walked through the Australian Open without losing a single set and won her first Grand Slam singles title by defeating Pierce in the finals, becoming the youngest player (16 years, 3 months, 26 days) in the twentieth century to win a Grand Slam title. In 1997, Hingis dominated the tour. She became the first player since Graf in 1993 to reach the finals of all four Grand Slam singles events, winning three of the four. Hingis went undefeated through her first 37 matches, tying Navratilova's 1978 second-best record (Graf went 45-0 in 1987). In April 1997, Hingis took a fall from her horse, suffering a slight tear of the posterior cruciate ligament in her left knee. Undergoing surgery to repair the knee, she sat out several tournaments but returned in time to reach the finals of the French Open, but lost to surprise finalist Iva Majoli. Once again at full strength, Hingis won Wimbledon and the United States Open, defeating Jana Novotna (2-6, 6-3, 6-3) and Venus Williams (6-0, 6-4), respectively.
Hingis became only the fourth player in history to sweep the Grand Slam doubles, winning all four in 1998. She managed to defend her Australian Open title by defeating Martinez, 6-3, 6-3, but failed to win another Grand Slam the remainder of the year and went on a six-month, nine-tournament winless drought before claiming the season-ending Chase Championships. She was eliminated from the French Open and Wimbledon in the semifinals and reached the finals of the United States Open, which she lost to Davenport, who took over the No. 1 ranking in September.
In 1999, Hingis defeated Mauresmo in the finals to win the Australian Open for the third consecutive year. She followed at the French Open by throwing a tantrum in the finals, which she lost to Graf, that she later called the only moment she regrets in her career.
Hingis reached the Australian Open finals once again in 2000 and 2001 but failed to retake the title either year. Although she went on to win nine tournaments in 2000 and ended the year once again ranked No. 1, something about her self-perceived invincibility had vanished. At Wimbledon in 2001, she won just two games in her first-round loss to unseeded Jelena Dokic.
In 2002, Hingis played in the finals of the Australian Open for the sixth consecutive year, but lost to Jennifer Capriati, 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-2, despite having four match points during the second set. In May 2002, Hingis began to experience nagging injuries. She had surgery on her left ankle and withdrew from the French Open and Wimbledon. She returned for the United States Open but lost in the fourth round to Seles. Hingis made several attempts to return to the game, but ended up withdrawing from the Chase Championships and the 2003 Australian Open.
Plagued by further injuries, Hingis retired in 2003. Two years later, however, she returned to the WTA. Injuries and the rise of powerful players, notably the sisters Venus and Serena Williams, limited her wins. In 2007, Hingis retired from professional tennis after announcing that she had tested positive for cocaine at that year's Wimbledon. Although she denied having taken the drug, she received a two-year ban. Her career totals included 43 singles titles and 10 Grand Slam doubles titles (women's and mixed doubles). In addition, she had been ranked number one for 209 nonconsecutive weeks.
At the beginning of 2010, Hingis defeated former world No. 1 Lindsay Davenport. She also hinted at a possible return to tennis. On May 5, 2010, it was announced that Hingis would reunite with her doubles partner Anna Kournikova.
On June 5, 2011, Hingis with Lindsay Davenport won the Roland Garros Women's Legends title, defeating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final. Before facing Navratilova and Novotná, they won two round-robin matches in the tournament: first against Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva, and then in the next match they prevailed over Andrea Temesvári and Sandrine Testud.
On July 3, Hingis partnering Lindsay Davenport won the Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title. They defeated Navratilova and Novotná in the final. They also successfully defended their Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title in 2012, again beating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final.
In 2013, Hingis won the Ladies' Invitation Doubles for the third year in a row at Wimbledon, again with Davenport. In July 2013, Martina announced that she was coming out of retirement to play a doubles tournament, with Daniela Hantuchová in Carlsbad, California.
She returned to the WTA Tour at Indian Wells, with Lisicki in the doubles. They lost in the first round to Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. At the Sony Open in Miami, Hingis and Lisicki reached the finals of the tournament and then defeated Makarova and Vesnina in straight sets.
Hingis and Pennetta reached the final at Eastbourne where they lost to Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan. At the Wimbledon Championships, Martina with Bruno Soares reached the quarterfinals in mixed doubles, where they lost to Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets.
At the end of the season, Hingis and Flavia Pennetta won two titles.
In 2015, at the Brisbane tournament, the reunited Hingis/Lisicki pair won another title. In the same year, together with Leander Paes, she won the Australian Open in mixed doubles. After an unsuccessful performance at the same Australian Open in doubles, Martina Hingis and Flavia Pennetta stopped cooperating, and Martina began to perform in tandem with Sania Mirza. Already in March, the newly minted pair won both the prestigious American Series trophies - the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Miami Open. In both cases, Hingis and Mirza beat the Makarov and Vesnin pair in the final. In early April, the couple continued their successful performance by winning the tournament in Charleston.
After a 17-year absence, Hingis again competed at the Fed Cup. Initially, she planned to perform only in doubles, but shortly before the start of the meet with Poland, it was decided that Martina would also play in singles. The return was unsuccessful - Hingis lost both matches to Agnieszka and Ursula Radwańska. At the tournament in Rome, the Hingis/Mirza pair reached their 4th joint final, where they lost to the Babos/Mladenovic pair. At the French Open, Hingis/Mirza lost in the quarterfinals to the future winners of the tournament - a pair of Mattek-Sands/Šafářová.
Paired with Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis won Wimbledon in July 2015, winning 10 Grand Slam doubles titles. At the same tournament, Hingis and Paes won the mixed final.
In 2016, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Martina Hingis, paired with Timeia Baczynski, won a silver medal.
At the begging of the 2017 season, Hingis continued to partner CoCo Vandeweghe, with whom she has played previously, in women's doubles competition. They reached the quarterfinals of the Sydney International, losing to eventual champions Tímea Babos and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and the second round of the Australian Open, losing to the Australian duo of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. As a result, Hingis split with Vandeweghe and entered a new partnership with Taiwan's Chan Yung-jan. In the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open, Hingis reached the quarterfinals with Leander Paes before losing to Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth in straight sets.
In the Fed Cup quarterfinal match, Hingis paired up with Timea Bacsinszky. They won their doubles match against Amandine Hesse and Kristina Mladenovic, helping the team to a 4-1 victory to advance to the semifinals.
At the United States Open, Hingis won both the women's and the mixed doubles competition. Martina announced her retirement at the WTA finals in Singapore in October 2017.
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Martina Hingis together with Martina Navratilova raised $25,000 in support of the SportCares Foundation, which has been able to reach more than 12,000 children and youth from low-income families through its programs, including its Love Singapore tennis program for girls.
Quotations:
"I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind."
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
"That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes."
"We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one."
"Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders."
"I have good anticipation and good reaction to the ball because I've played so many matches in my life."
"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
"The older you get, the more you learn."
"Any tournament you go to, you want to win it."
"I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory."
"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."
"Sometimes you want to make your own experiences."
"The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game."
"Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image."
"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you."
"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."
"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."
"The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference."
"When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there."
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."
"I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing."
"I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are."
"There are people in the locker room talking about the players' party tonight. I'm like, 'What? What are you talking about? At the Delano? Oh, really. I think I have to play on Friday. But maybe after I'll have plenty of time to (go out).' Definitely, South Beach is one of the places you always like to visit. I'll give myself a few days, hopefully over a week, to go there."
Personality
Hingis is a fearless equestrian and skier, but she plays a prudent, conservative baseline game, and in the end she may have more personality than drive, and more talent than discipline.
Hingis speaks five languages - Swiss German, Standard German, Czech, English and French.
Martina has her own clothing line - Tonic by Martina Hingis.
Physical Characteristics:
Martina Hingis is 170 cm tall (5 ft 7 in) and weighs 59 kg (130 pounds). She has blue eyes and light brown hair.
Quotes from others about the person
Kim Clijsters: "I don't think there's anyone on the tour who hits the ball as cleanly as she does."
Tracy Austin: "Martina has a real chance because I don't think anyone's yet figured out how to play her. She has so much diversity, no one else is used to it."
Amelie Mauresmo: "She still has the eye, the coordination, the feeling in the racket."
Interests
musicals, shopping, watching films
Sport & Clubs
skiing, swimming, horseback riding
Connections
In 2000, Hingis dated Swedish tennis player Magnus Norman and Spanish golfer Sergio García. She was engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in 2007. She also dated Ivo Heuberger, Justin Gimelstob, and Julián Alonso.
On December 10, 2010, Hingis married Thibault Hutin. On July 8, 2013, Hingis said they had been separated since the beginning of the year. In 2017, she started dating Spaniard David Tosas Ros.
On July 20, 2018, Martina married Harald Leemann in Switzerland in a secret ceremony. She gave birth to a daughter, Lia, on February 26, 2019.
Father:
Karol Hingis
Mother:
Melanie Molitorová
Spouse:
Harald Leemann
ex-spouse:
Thibault Hutin
Daughter:
Lia Leemann
ex-partner:
David Tosas Ros
ex-partner:
Magnus Norman
ex-partner:
Sergio García
ex-partner:
Radek Štěpánek
ex-partner:
Ivo Heuberger
ex-partner:
Justin Gimelstob
ex-partner:
Julián Alonso
colleague:
Anna Kurnikova
References
Martina Hingis
The book examines the life and career of the only tennis player in history to win the singles and doubles titles in the same Grand Slam event for three consecutive years.
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Martina Hingis
The book provides a brief look at the tennis career of the young woman who won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in 1997.