Martina Hingis

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Martina Hingis
Hingis at the 2016 French Open
Country (sports)  Switzerland
ResidenceFeusisberg, Switzerland
Born (1980-09-30) 30 September 1980 (age 44)
Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro1994
Retired2017
PlaysRight-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize moneyUS$24,749,074[1]
Fed Cup
F (1998)
Hopman CupW (2001)
Coaching career (2013–2015)
(2013)
Germany Sabine Lisicki (2014)
Switzerland Belinda Bencic (2015)
Coaching achievements
Coachee singles titles total2
Coachee(s) doubles titles total2
Medal record
Representing  Switzerland
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Doubles

Martina Hingis (German pronunciation: [maʁˈtiːna ˈhɪŋɡɪs], Slovak: Martina Hingisová; born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks (fifth-most of all time) and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90 weeks, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks.[2] Hingis won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 64 doubles titles, including a total of 25 major titles: five in singles, 13 in women's doubles (including the Grand Slam in 1998), and seven in mixed doubles. In addition, she won the season-ending Tour Finals two times in singles and three in doubles, an Olympic silver medal in doubles, and a record 17 Tier I singles titles.

Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records during the 1990s, including youngest-ever Grand Slam champion and youngest-ever world No. 1. Before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in early 2003, at the age of 22, she had won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles titles and, according to Forbes, was the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001.[3][4] After several surgeries and long recoveries, Hingis returned to the WTA Tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6 in singles, winning two Tier I tournaments, and receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year.[5] She retired in November 2007 after being hampered by a hip injury for several months. In January 2008, the International Tennis Federation suspended Hingis for two years following a positive test for a metabolite of cocaine in 2007.

In July 2013, Hingis again returned from retirement to play the doubles events of the

2016 Rio Olympics. Hingis retired for the third and final time after the 2017 WTA Finals, while ranked as the doubles world No. 1.[8]

Widely considered an all-time tennis great, Hingis was ranked by Tennis magazine in 2005 as the eighth-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years. She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by TIME in June 2011.[9] Hingis was the first Swiss player, male or female, to win a major title and to attain a world No. 1 ranking. In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and was appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador.[10][11]

Personal life

Hingis was born in

better source needed] Molitorová was a professional tennis player who was once ranked tenth among women in Czechoslovakia, and was determined to develop Hingis into a top player as early as pregnancy.[14] Her father was ranked as high as 19th in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. Martina Hingis spent her early childhood growing up in the town of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (now in the Czech Republic).[15] Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987[16] and emigrated to Trübbach (Wartau) in Switzerland when she was seven.[14] Her mother remarried to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician.[17] Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization. Along with her native Czech and German, Hingis speaks English and French
.

Hingis became engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek in November 2006, but the couple broke off the engagement in August 2007.[18] In December 2009, Hingis became engaged to then-38-year-old Andreas Bieri, a Swiss attorney she had been living with since the summer of 2009,[19] but the couple broke off the engagement in April 2010.[20]

On 10 December 2010, in Paris, Hingis married then-24-year-old Thibault Hutin, a French equestrian

show jumper she had met at a competition in April of that year. On 8 July 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper Schweizer Illustrierte
the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year.

On 20 July 2018, Hingis married sports physician Harald Leemann in Switzerland in a secret ceremony at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. Hingis and Leemann had been in a relationship for almost a year before they got married. They were both 37.[21] On 30 September 2018 (her 38th birthday) Hingis announced, via social media, her first pregnancy. She gave birth to a daughter, Lia, on 26 February 2019. The couple divorced in August 2022.[22]

Tennis career

Hingis began playing tennis when she was two years old and entered her first tournament at age four.[23] In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open.[24] In 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open.[25][26]

She made her WTA debut at the Zurich Open in October 1994, two weeks after turning 14,[25][27][28] and ended 1994 ranked world No. 87.[26]

Grand Slam success and period of dominance (1996–2000)

1996

In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with

WTA Tour Championships final in five sets.[30]

1997

In 1997, Hingis became the World No. 1 women's tennis player. She started the year by winning the warm-up tournament in Sydney. She then became the youngest Grand Slam singles winner in the 20th century by winning the Australian Open at age 16 years and 3 months (beating former champion Mary Pierce in the final). She also won the Australian Open women's doubles with Natasha Zvereva.[31] In March, she became the youngest top ranked player in history. In July, she became the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon since Lottie Dod in 1887 by beating Jana Novotná in the final. She then defeated another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final of the US Open. The only Grand Slam singles title that Hingis failed to win in 1997 was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli.

1998: Doubles Grand Slam

In 1998, Hingis won all four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles, only the fourth in women's tennis history to do so,

Mirjana Lučić and the other three events with Novotná), and she became only the third woman to hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles simultaneously. She also retained her Australian Open singles title by beating Conchita Martínez in straight sets in the final. Hingis, however, lost in the final of the US 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.[33]

1999

Martina Hingis (right) with doubles partner Anna Kournikova at the Sydney WTA tournament, 2002

1999 saw Hingis win her third successive Australian Open singles crown as well as the doubles title (with Anna Kournikova). She had dropped her former doubles partner Jana Novotná.[34] She then reached the French Open final and was three points away from victory in the second set before losing to Steffi Graf about whom she had said before: "Steffi had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now... She is old now. Her time has passed." She broke into tears after a game in which the crowd had booed her for using underhand serves and crossing the line in a discussion about an umpire decision.

Jelena Dokić at Wimbledon,[36] Hingis bounced back to reach her third consecutive US Open final, where she lost to 17-year-old Serena Williams. Hingis won a total of seven singles titles that year and reclaimed the No. 1 singles ranking. She also reached the final of the WTA Tour Championships, where she lost to Lindsay Davenport.[33]

2000

In 2000, Hingis again found herself in both the singles and doubles finals at the Australian Open. This time, however, she lost both. Her three-year hold on the singles championship ended when she lost to Davenport. Later, Hingis and Mary Pierce, her new doubles partner, lost to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs. Hingis captured the French Open women's doubles title with Pierce and produced consistent results in singles tournaments throughout the year. She reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before losing to Venus Williams. Although she did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament, the first time this had happened since 1996,[37] she kept the year end No. 1 ranking because of nine tournament championships, including the WTA Tour Championships where she won the singles and doubles titles.[38]

Injuries and first retirement from tennis (2001–2003)

2001

In 2001, Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup.[39] Hingis didn't drop a set in any of her singles matches during the event, defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn, Nicole Pratt, Amanda Coetzer, and Monica Seles.[40] In 2018, after his second Hopman Cup victory, Federer was quoted as saying: "I learned a lot from her, especially the two years I was here – once as a hitting partner and once as a partner with Martina. Definitely she helped me to become the player I am today."[41]

Hingis reached her fifth consecutive Australian Open final in 2001, defeating both of the Williams sisters en route, before losing to Jennifer Capriati. She briefly ended her coaching relationship with her mother Melanie early in the year[42] but had a change of heart two months later just before the French Open. 2001 was her least successful year in several seasons, with only three tournament victories in total. She lost her No. 1 ranking for the last time (to Jennifer Capriati) on 14 October 2001. In that same month, Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle.

2002

Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002 (again teaming with Anna Kournikova) and reached a sixth straight Australian Open final in singles, again facing Capriati. Hingis led by a set and 4–0 and had four match points but lost in three sets. 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.

2003

In February 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis, due to her injuries and being in pain.[43] "I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies."[44] In several interviews, she indicated that she wished to return to her home country and coach full-time.[45]

During this segment of her tennis career (until what would become her first retirement), Hingis won a total of 40 singles titles and 36 doubles. She held the world No. 1 singles ranking for a total of 209 weeks (fifth most following Steffi Graf,

40 Greatest Players of the Tennis era
.

Return to the game (2005–2007)

Martina Hingis at the Australian Open, 2006

2005

In February 2005, Hingis came out of retirement and made an unsuccessful return to competition. This took place at an event in Pattaya, Thailand, where she lost to Germany's Marlene Weingärtner in the first round. After the loss, she claimed that she had no further plans to continue further and make a full-fledged comeback.

Hingis, however, resurfaced in July, playing singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in

World Team Tennis and notching up singles victories over two top 100 players and shutting out Martina Navratilova in singles on 7 July. With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on 29 November her return to the next season's WTA Tour
.

2006

At the Australian Open, Hingis lost in the quarterfinals to second-seeded Kim Clijsters. 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).

The week after the Australian Open, Hingis defeated world No. 4,

Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Hingis defeated world No. 4, Lindsay Davenport
in the fourth round, before again losing to Sharapova in the semifinals.

Martina Hingis at the Zurich Open, 2006

At the Tier I

Italian Open in Rome, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals, beating world No. 18 Flavia Pennetta, and subsequently won the tournament with wins over Venus Williams in the semifinals and Dinara Safina
in the final. This was her 41st WTA Tour singles title and first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals of the French Open before losing to Kim Clijsters.

At Wimbledon, Hingis lost in the third round to Ai Sugiyama.

Hingis's return to the US Open was short lived, as she was upset in the second round by world No. 112, Virginie Razzano of France.

In her first tournament after the US Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III

Seoul, Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the second round to Sania Mirza
.

Hingis qualified for the year-ending

WTA Tour Championships in Madrid as the 8th seed. In her round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine Henin and Amélie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova
.

Hingis ended the year ranked world No. 7. She also finished eighth in prize money earnings (US$1,159,537). Hingis also ranked as No. 7 on the Annual Top Google News Searches in 2006.[46]

2007

Martina Hingis in Miami, Florida, 2007

At the

Li Na in the fourth round. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to Kim Clijsters. This was the second consecutive year that Hingis had lost to Clijsters in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open[47] and the third time in the last five Grand Slam
tournaments that Clijsters had eliminated Hingis in the quarterfinals.

Hingis won her next tournament, the Tier I

Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, defeating Ana Ivanovic
in the final. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event.

A hip injury that troubled her at the

Rome Masters
, where she was the defending champion, and the French Open, the only important singles title that eluded her.

In her first round match at Wimbledon, Hingis saved two match points to defeat British wildcard Naomi Cavaday, apparently not having fully recovered from the hip injury that prevented her from playing the French Open.[48] In the third round, Hingis lost to Laura Granville of the United States, and stated afterwards she should not have entered the tournament.[49]

Hingis's next tournament was the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open, in which Hingis lost in the third round to Belarusian teenager Victoria Azarenka. Hingis did not play any tournaments after the China Open, as she was beset by injuries for the rest of the year.[50]

ITF suspension and second retirement (2007–2012)

In November 2007, Hingis called a press conference to announce that she was under investigation for testing positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, during a urine test taken by players at Wimbledon.[51] Hingis's urine sample contained an estimated 42 nanograms per millilitre of benzoylecgonine. The International Tennis Federation's report on the matter states that "the very low estimated concentration of benzoylecgonine (42 ng/ml) was such that it would go unreported in many drug testing programmes such as that of the US military, which uses a screening threshold of 150 ng/ml."[51] As the amount was so low, Hingis appealed, arguing the likely cause was contamination rather than intentional ingestion.[52] In January 2008, the ITF's tribunal suspended Hingis from the sport for two years, effective from October 2007.[53][54]

At the time of Hingis's suspension, the ITF required an automatic two-year suspension for any players who tested positive for banned substances, regardless of extenuating circumstances such as contamination or extremely low detection levels. The ITF subsequently altered the suspension rules as a result of the Hingis case, allowing for future flexibility in cases of unintentional or unexplained ingestion.[citation needed]

2008–09

Having retired for the second time in 2007, Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008. Although this event was a warm-up for Wimbledon, it was not part of the

1997 Wimbledon final, Hingis defeated Jana Novotná.[55]

In 2009, Hingis took part in the British television dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing. She was the bookies' favourite for the competition,[56] but went out in the first week after performing a waltz and a rumba.[57]

2010

At the start of 2010, Hingis defeated former world No. 1

Tradition-ICAP Liverpool International championship in June 2010, preceding Wimbledon,[62] before playing in the Manchester Masters after Wimbledon.[63] Liverpool like the Nottingham and Manchester Masters are organised by her management company Northern Vision.[64] At the Nottingham Masters, Hingis faced Michaëlla Krajicek[65][66] (twice), Olga Savchuk[67] and Monika Wejnert.[68] Hingis won just once in the event, against Wejnert. After the Nottingham event, Billie Jean King stated that she believed that Hingis might return to the WTA Tour on the doubles circuit, after competing in the WTT.[69]

2011

Martina Hingis with the New York Sportimes, 2011

On 5 June 2011, Hingis, paired with Lindsay Davenport, won the Roland Garros Women's Legends title, defeating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final. Before facing Navratilova/Novotná, Hingis and Davenport won two round-robin matches in the tournament: first against Gigi Fernández/Natasha Zvereva, and then in the next match they prevailed over Andrea Temesvári/Sandrine Testud and 10:0 in the super tie-break.[70][71]

On 3 July, Hingis partnering Lindsay Davenport won the Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title, defeating Navratilova and Novotná in the final.[72] She also played for the New York Sportimes of the World TeamTennis Pro League in July 2011. She finished the season with the top winning percentage of any player competing in women's singles.

2012

Hingis and Davenport successfully defended their Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title in 2012, again beating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final.

Second return and doubles success (2013–2017)

2013: Coming out of retirement

Hingis practicing at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, August 2013

In April 2013, Hingis agreed to coach Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova;[73] however, after a disagreement about how to prepare for tournaments they parted ways in June.[74]

Hingis won the Ladies' Invitation Doubles for a third year in a row at Wimbledon, again with Davenport. They beat Jana Novotná and Barbara Schett in the final. Hingis was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in July 2013, and in the same month, announced that she was coming out of retirement to play a doubles tournament, with Daniela Hantuchová as her partner, in Carlsbad, California. She was accepted as a wildcard entry. She also played doubles in Toronto, Cincinnati, New Haven, and the US Open.

2014: US Open doubles finalist

Hingis helped

Champions Tennis League India to boost tennis in the country.[75]

Hingis at Eastbourne International, June 2014

Hingis returned to the WTA Tour at Indian Wells, partnering Lisicki in the doubles. They lost in the first round to three-time Grand Slam finalists

Qatar Ladies Open
in 2007 and her first Premier Mandatory doubles title since winning the 2001 title in Moscow. This was also her third win in Miami, having won her last title there in 1999.

Hingis reached the final at Eastbourne with Pennetta where they lost to

Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan. At the Wimbledon Championships, she reached the quarterfinals with partner Bruno Soares in mixed doubles, where they lost to Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic
in straight sets.

Entering as an unseeded team at the US Open, Hingis and Pennetta reached the final, without losing a set in any of their matches. In the final they lost to Makarova and Vesnina in three sets.

At the latter end of the season, Hingis and Flavia Pennetta won two titles. At the tournament in Wuhan, they beat Cara Black and Caroline Garcia to take the title; in Moscow they beat Caroline Garcia and Arantxa Parra Santonja.

2015: Five major doubles titles

Hingis and Mirza after winning the 2015 Wimbledon doubles title

In her first tournament of the year in Brisbane, Hingis and partner Sabine Lisicki didn't drop a set en route to the title, beating Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik in straight sets in the final. Hingis played at the Australian Open with Flavia Pennetta, as the fourth seeds, but lost in the third round. However, Hingis paired with Leander Paes in the mixed doubles to win the title. The win was her first in a major event since capturing the mixed-doubles crown at the 2006 Australian Open.

After early exits with Pennetta at the Dubai Tennis Championships and Qatar Ladies Open, Hingis then partnered with Indian player

Stuttgart. At the Madrid Open they lost in the quarterfinals to Australian Open champions Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Šafářová 11–9 in the super tie-break. They reached the quarterfinals of the French Open
, losing again to Mattek-Sands and Šafářová, this time in straight sets.

Hingis made a comeback in Fed Cup after a 17-year absence. She was scheduled to play doubles only, but then decided to try another comeback in singles by playing in the Fed Cup tie for Switzerland. She drew Agnieszka Radwańska in the first rubber and was defeated in two sets in her first official tour match since 2007. She lost her second singles rubber too, defeated by Urszula Radwańska in three sets, having been a set and a double break up.

On 11 July 2015, Hingis and Mirza beat Makarova and Vesnina in three tight sets, recovering from 5–2 down in the third to win the women's doubles tournament at Wimbledon. The win gave Hingis her first Grand Slam in women's doubles since the 2002 Australian Open. The following day, Hingis then won the mixed doubles final, partnering with Leander Paes, to defeat Alexander Peya and Tímea Babos in straight sets.

After two semifinal losses in Toronto and Cincinnati, Hingis won the mixed doubles title at the US Open on 12 September, partnering Paes, defeating Sam Querrey and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in three sets. The following day, Hingis and Mirza beat Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets to win the doubles tournament.[76] At the WTA Finals, they won all their group matches, including against Kops-Jones/Spears, Hlaváčková/Hradecká and Babos/Mladenovic. In the semifinals they beat the Chan sisters, and then they beat the Spanish team Muguruza/Suárez Navarro to win the title. That month Hingis participated at the Champions Tennis League in India, playing for the Hyderabad Aces team.[77]

2016: Mixed-doubles career Grand Slam

In January, Hingis and Mirza won at Brisbane and Sydney. They then won the doubles tournament at the Australian Open, defeating Hlaváčková and Hradecká in the final, for their third consecutive Grand Slam title. Afterwards, Hingis said of their partnership: "There's not that many people who can match her in the forehand rallies and me on the backhand side and at the net. That's what we try to do every match."[78] In mixed doubles, Hingis and Paes lost in the quarterfinals to Mirza and Ivan Dodig.

In February, Hingis represented

Czech Republic
.

The Hingis-Mirza winning-streak record of 41 matches ended in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Ladies Open, where they lost to Kasatkina/Vesnina.[79] Hingis and Mirza then proceeded to the Indian Wells Open to defend their title. However, they suffered a shock as the unseeded Vania King/Alla Kudryavtseva defeated them in straight sets.

At the

Margarita Gasparyan and Monica Niculescu
.

Hingis and Mirza started their clay season by reaching the finals of Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and Madrid Open, where they lost to Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia in both the tournaments. However, they won the Italian Open, defeating Makarova and Vesnina. At the French Open, they were upset by Czech pair Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková in the third round, which ended their 20 match winning streak in Grand Slam doubles tournaments.

Hingis won the French Open mixed doubles partnering Leander Paes. It is her first mixed doubles title at Roland Garros, and she completed the mixed-doubles career Grand Slam, becoming only the fourth woman ever to complete a career Grand Slam in both women's doubles and mixed doubles.

Hingis qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 20 years after her last Olympic appearance.[80] She played doubles with Timea Bacsinszky and won the silver medal, losing to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in straight sets in the final. Hingis then played at the US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe, where they made the semifinals and lost to top seeds Garcia and Mladenovic. At the WTA Finals, Hingis reunited with Sania Mirza in what would be the partnership's last tournament together; they defeated the Chan sisters in the quarterfinals but then lost to Makarova and Vesnina.

2017: Three major doubles titles, back to world No. 1, final retirement

Hingis continued to partner CoCo Vandeweghe in women's doubles competition at the start of the

Taiwan's Chan Yung-jan, who herself had just split with her sister Hao-ching.[85] In the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open, Hingis reached the quarterfinals with Leander Paes before losing to another Australian duo, Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth in straight sets.[86]

In preparation for the upcoming

France, Hingis partnered with Belinda Bencic to defend her St. Petersburg title. The pair lost in the first round to Gabriela Dabrowski and Michaëlla Krajicek.[87] In the Fed Cup quarterfinal match, Hingis instead paired up with Timea Bacsinszky and won their doubles match against Amandine Hesse and Kristina Mladenovic, helping the team to a 4–1 victory to advance to the semifinals.[88]

In the first two tournaments of their new partnership, Hingis and Chan suffered some "tough" losses.[89] They fell to Olga Savchuk and Yaroslava Shvedova in the semifinals of the Qatar Open[90] and to Andrea Hlaváčková and Peng Shuai in straight sets in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships.[91] However, they immediately rebounded by winning their first title together at the Indian Wells Open, defeating Hingis's old partner Sania Mirza with Barbora Strýcová in the quarterfinals,[92] top seeded Mattek-Sands and Šafářová in the semifinals,[93] and Czech pair Lucie Hradecká and Kateřina Siniaková in the final.[94] They then reached the semifinals of the Miami Open, before losing to Mirza and Strýcová.[95]

Hingis again sought to practice with a

Spain in 1998.[99]

In the clay-court season, Hingis and Chan continued their good form to win back-to-back titles at the

Andrea Hlaváčková and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina respectively, in the finals of each event.[100][101] Hingis's victory in Madrid was her 100th WTA career title.[102] This success marked the pair as one of the pre-tournament favorites to win the French Open.[103] Hingis and Chan reached the semifinals, where their 12 match winning streak was ended by eventual champions Mattek-Sands and Šafářová.[104][105] Hingis and Paes lost in the opening round of the mixed doubles competition to Katarina Srebotnik and Raven Klaasen in a super tiebreak.[106]

Hingis and Chan again won back-to-back titles, this time at the Mallorca Open and the Eastbourne International. At Mallorca, they won the title by walkover after Jelena Janković and Anastasija Sevastova withdrew from the title match owing to an injury sustained by Sevastova in the singles competition.[107] At Eastbourne, they won after defeating Barty and Dellacqua in the final.[108][109] However, like the French Open two months previous, Hingis and Chan could not replicate the success at Grand Slam level: losing at the quarterfinal stage to Grönefeld and Peschke at Wimbledon.[110] In the mixed doubles competition, Hingis paired up with new partner Great Britain's Jamie Murray after splitting from Leander Paes.[111] As top seeds they reached the final without losing a set,[112][113][114][115] before defeating defending champions Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen in the championship match.[116]

Hingis and Chan next played at the Canadian Open, where the German-Czech pair of Grönefeld and Peschke defeated them for the second tournament in a row in the quarterfinals.[117] However, not to be deterred, a week later at the Cincinnati Open they produced another winning run and defeated Hsieh and Niculescu in the final to capture their next title together.[118] On 14 August, Hingis and Chan became one of the first teams to qualify for the doubles competition at the year-end WTA Finals.[119]

At the

Michael Venus in the final to capture their second consecutive title together and remain undefeated as a pair.[121] Then, less than 24 hours later with Chan, they defeated Hradecká and Siniaková in the final to win their first major title together. In total, this was Hingis's 25th Grand Slam title across all disciplines.[122]

Hingis and Chan extended their winning run to 18 matches in China by winning their third and fourth straight titles: the Wuhan and China Opens. In Wuhan, they defeated Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan in the final. With this win, Hingis ascended to the No. 1 ranking on 2 October for the 67th week in her career.[123] In Beijing, they defeated Babos and Hlaváčková.[124]

Hingis announced her retirement at the WTA Finals in Singapore in October 2017.[125]

Playing style

Hingis was an all-court player who possessed an intelligent, crafty game. Hingis compensated for her lack of power with superior movement, anticipation, finesse, point construction, shot selection, and knowledge of the geometry of the court. Hingis used a semi-western grip for her forehand, allowing her to create sharp angles and dictate play. Her two-handed backhand was her most effective groundstroke, and was used to redirect power down the line. She could also hit her backhand one-handed with slice, and would use this shot to break up the pace of rallies. Her serve was not particularly powerful, and she rarely served aces, but was reliable, and she was proficient at defending her serve. Although her serve had been recorded as high as 111 mph (179 km/h), her first serve was typically delivered at 95 mph (153 km/h), and her second serve speed averaged 79 mph (127 km/h). She was one of the most effective returners on the WTA tour, positioning herself on the baseline to return first serves, and her superior sense of anticipation allowed her to read serves effectively. Due to her doubles experience, Hingis was one of the most effective players at the net on the WTA tour, possessing an almost complete repertoire of shots at the net, and she would frequently choose to finish points off at the net.

Career statistics

Main article: Martina Hingis career statistics

Singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# DNQ A NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 SR W–L
Australian Open A 2R QF W W W F F F A A A QF QF 3 / 10 52–7
French Open A 3R 3R F SF F SF SF A A A A QF A 0 / 8 35–8
Wimbledon A 1R 4R W SF 1R QF 1R A A A A 3R 3R 1 / 9 23–8
US Open A 4R SF W F F SF SF 4R A A A 2R 3R 1 / 10 43–9
Grand Slam W–L 0–0 6–4 14–4 27–1 23–3 19–3 20–4 16–4 9–2 0–0 0–0 0–0 11–4 8–3 5 / 37 153–32
WTA Tour Championships
 DNQ DNQ F QF W F W A A A A A RR A 2 / 6 16–5
  • 2If ITF Women's Circuit (hardcourt: 12–2; carpet: 6–1) and Fed Cup (10–0) participations are included, overall win–loss record: 548–133.

Grand Slam singles finals: 12 (5–7)

Result Year Championship Surface Opponent Score
Win 1997 Australian Open Hard France Mary Pierce 6–2, 6–2
Loss 1997 French Open Clay Croatia Iva Majoli 4–6, 2–6
Win 1997 Wimbledon Grass Czech Republic Jana Novotná 2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Win 1997 US Open Hard United States Venus Williams 6–0, 6–4
Win 1998 Australian Open (2) Hard Spain Conchita Martínez 6–3, 6–3
Loss 1998 US Open Hard United States Lindsay Davenport 3–6, 5–7
Win 1999 Australian Open (3) Hard France Amélie Mauresmo 6–2, 6–3
Loss 1999 French Open Clay Germany Steffi Graf 6–4, 5–7, 2–6
Loss 1999 US Open Hard United States Serena Williams 3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss 2000 Australian Open Hard United States Lindsay Davenport 1–6, 5–7
Loss 2001 Australian Open Hard United States Jennifer Capriati 4–6, 3–6
Loss 2002 Australian Open Hard United States Jennifer Capriati 6–4, 6–7(7–9), 2–6

Doubles

Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003–06 2007 2008–12 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 SR W–L
Australian Open A 1R 1R W W W F SF W A 2R A A A 3R W 2R 5 / 12 43–7
French Open A A QF SF W F W A A A A A A A QF 3R SF 2 / 8 33–6
Wimbledon A 2R W QF W A 2R A A A A A A 1R W QF QF 3 / 9 29–6
US Open A 3R SF SF W A 3R QF QF A 3R A 1R F W SF W 3 / 13 47–9
Grand Slam Win–Loss 0–0 3–3 13–3 17–3 24–0 11–1 14–2 7–2 9–1 0–0 3–2 0–0 0–1 5–2 17–2 15–3 14–3 13 / 42 152–28
Tour Championships
 A A QF QF QF W W A A A A A A A W SF SF 3 / 8 13–5

Grand Slam doubles finals: 16 (13–3)

By winning the

Calendar Year Grand Slam
, becoming the fourth woman in history to achieve the feat in doubles.

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1996 Wimbledon Grass Czech Republic Helena Suková
Larisa Savchenko Neiland
 5–7, 7–5, 6–1
Win 1997 Australian Open Hard Belarus Natasha Zvereva United States Lindsay Davenport
United States Lisa Raymond		 6–2, 6–2
Win 1998 Australian Open (2) Hard
Mirjana Lučić
 United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva		 6–4, 2–6, 6–3
Win 1998 French Open Clay Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva		 6–1, 7–6(7–4)
Win 1998 Wimbledon (2) Grass Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva		 6–3, 3–6, 8–6
Win 1998 US Open Hard Czechoslovakia Jana Novotná United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva		 6–3, 6–3
Win 1999 Australian Open (3) Hard Russia Anna Kournikova United States Lindsay Davenport
Belarus Natasha Zvereva		 7–5, 6–3
Loss 1999 French Open Clay Russia Anna Kournikova United States Serena Williams
United States Venus Williams		 3–6, 7–6(7–2), 6–8
Loss 2000 Australian Open Hard France Mary Pierce United States Lisa Raymond
Australia Rennae Stubbs		 4–6, 7–5, 4–6
Win 2000 French Open (2) Clay France Mary Pierce Spain Virginia Ruano Pascual
Argentina Paola Suárez		 6–2, 6–4
Win 2002 Australian Open (4) Hard Russia Anna Kournikova Slovakia Daniela Hantuchová
Spain Arantxa Sánchez Vicario		 6–2, 6–7(4–7), 6–1
Loss 2014 US Open Hard Italy Flavia Pennetta Russia Ekaterina Makarova
Russia Elena Vesnina		 6–2, 3–6, 2–6
Win 2015 Wimbledon (3) Grass India Sania Mirza Russia Ekaterina Makarova
Russia Elena Vesnina		 5–7, 7–6(7–4), 7–5
Win 2015 US Open (2) Hard India Sania Mirza Australia Casey Dellacqua
Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova		 6–3, 6–3
Win 2016 Australian Open (5) Hard India Sania Mirza
Andrea Hlaváčková
Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká
 7–6(7–1), 6–3
Win 2017 US Open (3) Hard
Chan Yung-jan
 Czech Republic Lucie Hradecká
Czech Republic Kateřina Siniaková		 6–3, 6–2

Mixed doubles

Tournament 1996 1997 1998–99 2000 2001–05 2006 2007–12 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 SR W–L
Australian Open A A A A A W A A A W QF QF 2 / 4 14–2
French Open QF A A A A 2R A A A 2R W 1R 1 / 5 9–3
Wimbledon 2R QF A A A A A A QF W 3R W 2 / 6 17–4
US Open SF A A QF A A A 1R A W 2R W 2 / 6 14–3
Win–loss 6–3 3–1 0–0 2–0 0–0 6–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 14–1 9–3 12–2 7 / 21 54–12

Mixed doubles finals: 7 (7–0)

By winning the 2016 French Open title, Hingis completed the mixed doubles Career Grand Slam. She became the 7th female player in history to achieve this.

Result Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 2006 Australian Open Hard India Mahesh Bhupathi Russia Elena Likhovtseva
Canada Daniel Nestor		 6–3, 6–3
Win 2015 Australian Open (2) Hard India Leander Paes France Kristina Mladenovic
Canada Daniel Nestor		 6–4, 6–3
Win 2015 Wimbledon Grass India Leander Paes Hungary Tímea Babos
Austria Alexander Peya		 6–1, 6–1
Win 2015 US Open Hard India Leander Paes United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands
United States Sam Querrey		 6–4, 3–6, [10–7]
Win
2016
French Open
 Clay India Leander Paes India Sania Mirza
Croatia Ivan Dodig		 4–6, 6–4, [10–8]
Win 2017 Wimbledon (2) Grass United Kingdom Jamie Murray United Kingdom Heather Watson
Finland Henri Kontinen		 6–4, 6–4
Win 2017 US Open (2) Hard United Kingdom Jamie Murray
Michael Venus
 6–1, 4–6, [10–8]

Records

  • These records were attained in the
    Open Era
    of tennis.
Grand Slam Years Record accomplished Player tied
Australian Open 1997–99 3 consecutive titles Margaret Court
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Steffi Graf
Monica Seles
Australian Open 1997–2002
6 consecutive finals
 Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Grand Slam 1997
2 wins without losing a set in the same calendar year
 Billie Jean King
Martina Navratilova
Steffi Graf
Serena Williams
Justine Henin
Grand Slam 1997 Reached all four Grand Slam finals in a calendar year Margaret Court
Chris Evert
Martina Navratilova
Steffi Graf
Monica Seles
Justine Henin
Grand Slam 1998 Calendar Year Women's Doubles Grand Slam Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver
  • By winning Wimbledon doubles title in 1996 with Helena Suková became youngest doubles winner at 15 years, 282 days and youngest ever Grand Slam winner.[126]
  • By winning Australian singles title in 1997, became youngest winner there in tennis history at 16 years and 3 months.[127]
  • By defeating Monica Seles 6–2, 6–1 in 1997 at
    Key Biscayne
    , ascended the no. 1 spot as the youngest ever in tennis history.
  • Became the youngest ever year-end No.1 in 1997 in tennis history.
  • By winning the US Open against Venus Williams in 1997, Hingis contended all Grand Slam tournament finals that year; second youngest winner in the US Open at 16 years, 11 months and 8 days.[128]
  • Won the Australian and US Open in 1997 without losing a set.
  • In 1997, from Sydney to the final of Roland Garros had a 37-match winning streak, best from 1995 until present.
  • By winning the US Open doubles title in 1998 with Jana Novotná, completed a doubles Grand Slam, third player in the Open Era.
  • Held simultaneously the no. 1 position for singles and doubles in 1998.
  • Most successful player to play the Toray Pan-Pacific Tournament with 5 wins in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, and reached 8 finals in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007.
  • Compiled 103 top-10 wins (behind Serena Williams 164, Lindsay Davenport 129, and Venus Williams 127), 43 singles titles, 64 doubles titles, 7 mixed doubles titles, and 209 weeks at no.1 (5th behind Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Serena Williams).[2]
  • In 2015, won three Grand Slam Mixed Doubles title with Leander Paes, an accomplishment last achieved in 1969 by Margaret Court and Marty Riessen
  • Most Mixed Doubles titles (2) won by a woman player in Open Era in Australian Open
  • Only player in the Open Era to win the Australian Open singles and doubles titles three consecutive years.
    • 1997 (S) d. Pierce, (D) w/Zvereva d. Davenport/Raymond
    • 1998 (S) d. Martinez, (D) w/Lučić d. Davenport/Zvereva
    • 1999 (S) d. Mauresmo, (D) w/Kournikova d. Davenport/Zvereva

Awards

Notable accolades

  • Except for the French Open, she won every major WTA Tour singles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments,
    WTA Tour Championships
    , and Tier I tournaments).
  • Except for Berlin, she won every major WTA Tour doubles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments, WTA Tour Championships, and Tier I tournaments).
  • By reaching the 2016 French Open mixed doubles finals, Hingis joined an elite group of players who have reached the finals in all 4 Grand Slams across singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

Equipment endorsements

Hingis's current on-court apparel is manufactured by Tonic Lifestyle Apparel; having her own clothing line: Tonic by Martina Hingis. She is sponsored by Yonex for racquets and shoes.

In the 1990s, Hingis was sponsored by Sergio Tacchini. In 1998 she suffered a foot injury, and she withdrew from the Wimbledon doubles competition in 1999. She sued the company in 2001 for making allegedly defective shoes that injured her feet. Hingis and Tacchini settled in 2005 for an undisclosed amount of money. She was sponsored by Adidas from 1999 until 2008.

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