Martina Hingis, Tennis Player, - Biography
Switz tennis player.- The Switz miss,
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 59 kg
(130 lb)
born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, (Now Slovakia)
She was the daughter of Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis.
She was named Martina Hingisová - Molitorová, the Martina after Maartina Navrátilová.
Both parents were reasnobly good tennis players, but never internationally known.
Her
parents divorced and, her and her moth moved to Moravia, then Switzerland,
Hingis was known as the terror at tennis courts for her great play as young as six.
She hit the ball with a racket at 2, and entered junior tournaments at 4
She became the youngest ever tennis player to win a junior Grand Slam at 12, in 1993 in the French Open
She was the youngest player to win a match at a Grand Slam when winning her way to the Second Round in the Australian Open in 1994,
In 1996 she became the youngest player ever to win the Wimbledon Championship, when at 15 years and 9 months she with Helena Sukova won the Women's Doubles
She won her first professional singles title at Filderstadt, Germany in 1996
Just after then Hingis beat the Australian Open Title holder, and co-top ranked (with Graf) Monica Seles 6-2, 6-0 in the final at Oakland. Hingis then lost to Graf 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 at the year-end WTA Tour Championships.
She reached the singles quarterfinals at the 1996 Australian Open and the singles semifinals of the 1996 U.S. Open.
In January 1997, she became the youngest Grand Slam singles winner of the 20th century by winning the Australian Open at 16 years 3 months.
In March, she became the youngest ever player to attain the World No. 1 ranking.
And in July, she became the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon since Lottie Dod in 1887. She won the U.S. Open title over another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final. The only Grand Slam singles title she failed to win that year was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli.
In 1998, Hingis won all 4 of Grand Slam women's doubles titles (the Australian Open with Mirjana Lucic, the other 3 with Jana Novotná), and became only the third woman to simultaneously hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. She also retained her Australian Open singles title beating Conchita Martínez in straight sets in the final. Hingis, however, lost in the final of the U.S. Open to Lindsay Davenport. Davenport ended an 80-week stretch Hingis had enjoyed as the No. 1 singles player in October 1998, but Hingis finished the year by beating Davenport in the final of the WTA Tour Championships.
1999 saw Hingis win her 3rd successive Australian Open singles crown as well as the doubles (with Anna Kournikova). She then reached the French Open final and was three points away from victory in the second set against Steffi Graf, but lost 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. During the match, Hingis infuriated a partisan crowd (she had said beforehand that Steffi's time was past, which was seen as inpolite) by arguing with the umpire over line calls, taking a bathroom break early in the final set, and twice delivering a rare underhand serve on match point. Crying after the match, Hingis was comforted by her mother as she returned to the court for the trophy ceremony. After a shock first-round 6-2, 6-0 loss to Jelena Dokic at Wimbledon, Hingis bounced back to reach her 3rd consecutive U.S. Open final, where she lost to Serena Williams. Hingis won a total of seven singles titles that year and reclaimed the No. 1 singles ranking. She also reached the finals of the WTA Tour Championships, but lost 6-4, 6-2 to Lindsay Davenport. Some felt still that she would dominate, like her namesake Martina Navrátilová, but then the Williams, Sisters, and Davenport, and later Sharapova, proved that possibility wrong.
In 2000, Hingis and Mary Pierce were runners-up in the Australian Open women's doubles tournament.
In 2001, Hingis won the Hopman Cup along side Roger Federer.
Hingis' three-year hold on the Australian Open singles title came to an end in 2000 when she lost in the final to Lindsay Davenport 6-1, 7-5. Althhough she did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament that year, she kept the year end No. 1 ranking because of nine tournament championships, including the WTA Tour Championships where she won both in singles and doubles.
Hingis reached her fifth consecutive Australian Open final in 2001, where she lost to Jennifer Capriati 6-4, 6-3. She briefly ended her coaching relationships with her mother Melanie early in the year but had a change of heart two months later just before the French Open. Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle in October 2001.
Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002 (again teaming with Kournikova) and reached a sixth straight Australian Open final in singles, again facing Capriati. Hingis led by a set and 4-0 and had a few match points but lost 4-6, 7-6, 6-2. In May 2002, she needed another ankle ligament operation, this time on her left ankle. After that, she continued to struggle with injuries and was not able to recapture her best form.
In 2003, at 22, Hingis announced her retirement. In several interviews, she indicated she was attending an advanced English course at AKAD in Zürich to broaden her career. Some stated that as she had said the game was too fast for some players, in the 1990s, that now bigger 6 footers were dominating the game. But still since then many women under 6 foot have won championships. She has done much model work, and photo shoots.
During this segment of her tennis career, Hingis won 40 singles titles,
36 doubles events. She held the World No. 1 singles ranking for a total of 209
weeks (third most following Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova). In 2005, TENNIS
Magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS
era.
In February 2005, she made a unsuccessful return to competition at an event in Pattaya, Thailand, where she lost to Germany's Marlene Weingartner in the first round. After the loss, she claimed that she had no further plans for a comeback. Appearing radiently on Tv shows sometimes, and sometimes not so readient.
Hingis resurfaced in July 2005, playing singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in World Team Tennis and notching up singles victories over two top 100 players. She also shut out Martina Navrátilová in singles on July 7th. With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on November 29 her return to the WTA Tour in 2006.
Her Grand Slam comeback debut was
at the 2006 Australian Open, where she reached the quarterfinals before losing
to Kim Clijsters, the second seed. However, Hingis won the mixed doubles title
with Mahesh Bhupathi of India. This was her first career Grand Slam mixed doubles
title and fifteenth overall (5 singles, 9 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles).
On May 19, 2006, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals of the Tier I Italian Open in Rome, beating top 20 player Flavia Pennetta, and two days later won the tournament. This was her 41st WTA tour singles title and first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals at the French Open, losing to Clijsters, and the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Ai Sugiyama. Her U.S. Open return was short lived, losing in the second round 6-2, 6-4 to Virginie Razzano, who was ranked outside the top 100.
In her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian Olga Poutchkova 6-0, 6-4 in the final after defeating Sania Mirza 6-1, 6-0 in a semifinal. The following week in Seoul, Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the second round to Mirza 4-6, 6-0, 6-4.
During her 8 months back on the WTA tour, Hingis has reached three Tier I finals - the first in Tokyo (falling to Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-0, after defeating Maria Sharapova in a semifinal), then in Rome (winning the title over Dinara Safina 6-2, 7-5), and in Montreal (falling to Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-3). She has beaten several top players in her comeback, including Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport, Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Venus Williams.
Hingis qualified for the end of year WTA Tour Championships in Madrid as the eighth seed. In her three round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine Henin-Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Hingis is currently ranked No. 7 in
the WTA rankings, which is based on the previous 52 weeks of results. In the WTA
Champions Race, a system that bases rankings purely on results during the current
calendar year, she is ranked No. 8. Hingis is also ranked No. 8 on the WTA Money
list.
In total she has won 5 Grand Slam Singles Titles, 3 Australian
Opens, 1 Wimbledon, and 1 US Open
She has been runner up 7 times, in 3 Australian Opens, 2French Opens, and 2 US Opens,
She has won 9 Grand Slam doubles titles
Prize
Money
Career: $19,505,360.00
This site was written in November 2006
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