[20][21], She made her WTA debut at the Zurich Open in October 1994, two weeks after turning 14,[20][22][23] and ended 1994 ranked world No. She also won the Australian Open women's doubles with Natasha Zvereva. 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. [75] She played doubles with Timea Bacsinszky and won the silver medal, losing to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in straight sets in the final. She could also hit her backhand one-handed with slice, and would use this shot to break up the pace of rallies. [28], In 2000, Hingis again found herself in both the singles and doubles finals at the Australian Open. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by TIME in June 2011. W x5 W/L. Hingis was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová,[12] to Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis, both of whom were tennis players. *She turned professional in 1994. 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. [63] Hingis won just once in the event, against Wejnert. She became the 7th female player in history to achieve this. Martina Hingis claimed her first Grand Slam title for nine years as the 34-year-old Swiss teamed up with Leander Paes to win the Australian Open mixed doubles. In 2011, she inducted into the International Tennis Hall … At 16 years and 117 days, the Swiss tennis player won her first major tournament in 1997: the Australian Open. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event. She then defeated another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final of the US Open. By the start of 1998, Hingis had been World No.1 for nine months and was the heavy favorite for any tournament she entered. In Hingis' first tournament of the year in Brisbane, she 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. [6][7] During her doubles comeback, she won four Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments, six Grand Slam mixed doubles tournaments (completing the Career Grand Slam), 27 WTA titles, and the silver medal in women's doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. As of March 2021, The net worth of Martina Hingis is $30 million. :OOOOOO Amazinggg!!!! Learn more about Hingis’s life and career. [140] She gave birth to a daughter, Lia, on 26 February 2019. On 3 July, Hingis partnering Lindsay Davenport won the Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title, defeating Navratilova and Novotná in the final. [21], In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months. Martina Hingis Net Worth. Martina Hingis, former Swiss tennis player, celebrates her 40th birthday on September 30, 2020 (Wednesday). Only player in the Open Era to win the Australian Open singles and doubles titles three consecutive years. The pair lost in the first round to Gabriela Dabrowski and Michaëlla Krajicek. In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months. In 1997, from Sydney to the final of Roland Garros had a 37-match winning streak, best from 1995 until present. 1 ranked women's player. 1. [118] In Beijing, they defeated Babos and Hlaváčková. 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. 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. This time, however, she lost both. Will be used in accordance to our Privacy Policy. [141][142], (W) Won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (P) postponed; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; (NH) not held. In January, Hingis and Mirza won at Brisbane and Sydney. 1 Martina Hingis says she is in a happy place in her life right now. That month Hingis participated at the Champions Tennis League in India, playing for the Hyderabad Aces team.[72]. This was her first career Grand Slam mixed doubles title and fifteenth overall (5 singles, 9 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles). [95][96] Hingis' victory in Madrid was her 100th WTA career title. She remains the youngest ever Grand Slam champion across both men’s and women’s categories having won the 1997 Australian Open at just 16 years of age. 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Hingis kept up her momentum for the rest of 1997, winning Wimbledon and the US Open and going 27-1 at the Grand Slam events, with her only stumble at the majors being a surprising loss to Iva Majoli in the Roland Garros final. 1 & final retirement, Grand Slam doubles finals: 16 finals (13–3), Women's Tennis Association (WTA) world No. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in August 2007. 2015: ITF World Champion – Women's Doubles (with Sania Mirza). ). Martina Hingis (født 30. september 1980 i Košice, Tjekkoslovakiet, nu Slovakiet) er en tidligere schweizisk tennisspiller som i slutningen af 1990'erne toppede verdensranglisten. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to Kim Clijsters. [14] Her father was ranked as high as 19th in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. [98] Hingis and Chan reached the semifinals, where their 12 match winning streak was ended by eventual champions Mattek-Sands and Šafářová. *She began playing tennis at age 2. Entering as an unseeded team at the US Open, Hingis and Pennetta reached the final, without losing a set in any of their matches. Tennis Planet", "Australian Open Tennis Schedule, Information and Records", "US Open, Championship Tennis Tours – Tickets & Tours Since 1987", "Sports Personality of the Year: overseas winners", "Hingis extends agreement with Yonex racquets", "Shanghai Open: Love match is thrown off court", "Martina Hingis Set To Marry And End The Career of Radek Stepanek", "Martina Hingis: I chose to play with Jamie Murray. Hingis reached the final at Eastbourne with Pennetta where they lost to Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan of Taiwan. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals of the French Open before losing to Kim Clijsters. 1 doubles players, WTA rankings incepted on September 4, 1984, current No. [29] Hingis then played at the US Open with CoCo Vandeweghe, where they made the semifinals and lost to top seeds Garcia and Mladenovic. Since then, Hingis has gone on to win 23 Grand … Hingis played at the Australian Open with Flavia Pennetta, as the 4th seeds, but lost in the third round. The first day I went to hit with Martina Hingis reminded me of the day I took my driving test when I was 18. After early exits with Pennetta at the Dubai Tennis Championships and Qatar Ladies Open, Hingis then partnered with Indian player Sania Mirza; they won the first 20 sets they contested, subsequently winning back-to-back titles in two WTA Premier Mandatory events: the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Miami Open, also winning afterwise the Family Circle Cup. 1994: ITF Junior Girls Singles World Champion. It was a little more special for Mahesh Bhupathi as the French Open title had come on June 7, 1997 – his 23rd birthday. By defeating Monica Seles 6–2, 6–1 in 1997 at. She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany. In the 1990s, she became the top player in tennis history. 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" In February, she announced having committed to a full season with the World TeamTennis tour in 2010. She drew Agnieszka Radwańska in the first rubber and was defeated in two sets in her first official tour match since 2007. 1 singles players, WTA rankings incepted on November 3, 1975, (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)), current No. 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. [86] However, they immediately rebounded by winning their first title together at the Indian Wells Open, defeating Hingis' old partner Sania Mirza with Barbora Strýcová in the quarterfinals,[87] top seeded Mattek-Sands and Šafářová in the semifinals,[88] and Czech pair Lucie Hradecká and Kateřina Siniaková in the final. [76] Together they reached the quarterfinals of the Sydney International, losing to eventual champions Tímea Babos and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,[77] and the second round of the Australian Open, losing to the Australian duo of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. 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During this segment of her tennis career, Hingis won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles events. 1 in bold, as of week of February 22, 2021, WTA Year-end championships – doubles winners, Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year, 2 wins without losing a set in the same calendar year, Reached all four Grand Slam finals in a calendar year, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, List of Grand Slam women's singles champions, List of Grand Slam women's doubles champions, Open Era tennis records – women's singles, All-time tennis records – women's singles, "Martina Hingis wins doubles match on return to competitive tennis", "Martina Hingis to retire again after WTA Finals", "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future – Martina Hingis". 1 singles ranking. That's what we try to do every match. [48][49], Having retired for the second time in 2007, Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008. They lost in the first round to three-time Grand Slam finalists Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. She sued the company in 2001, demanding $40 million for making allegedly defective shoes that injured her feet. 7 of 44 Attribution: Getty At the Australian Open, Hingis lost in the quarterfinals to second-seeded Kim Clijsters. [78][79] This capped a run of poor form, having gone 5–5 in tournaments since they made the semifinals at the US Open the previous season. 1 position for singles and doubles in 1998. In her round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine Henin and Amélie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova. [89] They then reached the semifinals of the Miami Open, before losing to Mirza and Strýcová. However, they suffered a shock as the unseeded Vania King/Alla Kudryavtseva defeated them in straight sets, 7–6(7), 6–4. 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. [80] 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. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. [111], 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. [113] On 14 August, Hingis and Chan became one of the first teams to qualify for the doubles competition at the year-end WTA Finals. [67] In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play the doubles events of the North American hard-court season. A hip injury that troubled her at the German Open caused her to withdraw from the Rome Masters, where she was the defending champion, and the French Open, the only important singles title that eluded her. 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. Although she did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament, the first time this had happened since 1996,[32] she kept the year end No. [116] Then, less than 24 hours later with Chan, they defeated Hradecká and Siniaková in the final to win their first Major title together. 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. [35] 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. The following day, Hingis and Mirza beat Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova in straight sets to win the doubles tournament. Switzerland advanced to the semifinals, where the team lost to the defending champions the Czech Republic. [99][100] Hingis and Paes lost in the opening round of the mixed doubles competition to Katarina Srebotnik and Raven Klaasen in a super tiebreak. Became the youngest ever year-end No.1 in 1997 in tennis history. [47] In January 2008, the ITF's tribunal suspended Hingis from the sport for two years, effective from October 2007. The Hingis-Mirza winning-streak record of 41 matches ended in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open, where they lost to Kasatkina/Vesnina. Hingis and Davenport successfully defended their Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title in 2012, again beating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final. [9] 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]. [54] On 5 May 2010, it was announced that Hingis would reunite with her doubles partner Anna Kournikova. The tennis prodigy to end all tennis prodigies, Hingis … 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. Get the latest news on Martina Hingis including her participation in Grand Slams, stats, videos, ... Best Grand Slam Result Highest Finish. However, Hingis won the mixed doubles title with Mahesh Bhupathi of India. Here, Oli Jefford takes a look at some of the great champions who have lifted the title as several look to emulate their success in the coming week. In 2015, won three Grand Slam Mixed Doubles title with, Most Mixed Doubles titles (2) won by a woman player in Open Era in Australian Open. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. 1995: Named "Female Rookie of the Year" by, 1998: First female athlete to be on the cover of the American men's magazine. 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). In an interview with Blick, the multiple Grand Slam champion says, "Right now everything fits. At the latter end of the season, Hingis and Flavia Pennetta won two titles. 153/32 1999, 1998, 1997 Australian Open. In that same month, Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle. 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. Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980 in Košice, Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia) is a Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. Won the Australian and US Open in 1997 without losing a set. By winning the 2016 French Open title, Hingis completed the mixed doubles Career Grand Slam. W x3 1999, 1998, 1997 Roland Garros. In February 2005, Hingis made an unsuccessful return to competition at an event in Pattaya, Thailand, where she lost to Germany's Marlene Weingärtner in the first round. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Hingis continued to partner CoCo Vandeweghe in women's doubles competition at the start of the season. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended. [33], In 2001, Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup. [84] They fell to Olga Savchuk and Yaroslava Shvedova in the semifinals of the Qatar Open[85] and to Andrea Hlaváčková and Peng Shuai in straight sets in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships. [24] She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany. Hingis competed in Dubai then, reaching the quarterfinals before falling to Sharapova. To find out more about our use of cookies and how you can disable them, please see our Privacy Policy. In May 2002, she needed another ankle ligament operation, this time on her left ankle. The player earns her net worth through playing professional Tennis. [18] In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open. [71] At the WTA Finals, they won all their group matches, including against Kops-Jones/Spears, Hlavackova/Hradecka and Babos/Mladenovic. In Wuhan, they defeated Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan 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. Hingis and Mirza started their clay season by reaching the finals of Porsche Tennis Grand Prix and Mutua Madrid Open, where they lost to Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia in both the tournaments. Kournikova was participating in competitive tennis for the first time in seven years, in the Invitational Ladies Doubles event at Wimbledon. 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She lost her second singles rubber too, defeated by Urszula Radwańska in three sets, having been a set and a double break up. syyskuuta 1980 Košice, Tšekkoslovakia) on sveitsiläinen … [101], Hingis and Chan again won back-to-back titles, this time at the Mallorca Open and the Eastbourne International. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica Seles in the final in Oakland, but lost to Graf in the year-end WTA Tour Championships final in five sets.[25]. [103][104] 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. Switzerland beat Germany 3–2, with Hingis and Bencic clinching the doubles rubber. 2000: ITF World Champion – Women's Singles. 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. Davenport ended an 80-week stretch Hingis had enjoyed as the No. Martina Hingis is just one step away from becoming the youngest winner of a Grand Slam tournament this century after beating Mary Joe Fernandez in … 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. Martina Navratilova, Hingis Wanted To Win With Me, 18 Grand Slams Need A Lot of Effort: Leander Paes Even after a 30-year Davis Cup career, Leander Paes refuses to stop. She lost her No. Martina Hingis Facts: *She was born on September 30, 1980 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, to Karol Hingis and Melanie Molitorová, both of whom were tennis players. But beyond the significance of lifting the She reached the singles quarterfinals of the 1996 Australian Open and the singles semifinals of the 1996 US Open. Hingis led by a set and 4–0 and had four match points but lost in three sets. Held simultaneously the no. Martina Hingis played in Grand Slam finals in 1996-2017. 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. Hingis was an all-court player who possessed an intelligent, crafty game. Hingis also ranked as No. Click here to find out more info. 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, 1992: Swiss Champion together with the tennisclub. Martina Hingis (German pronunciation: [marˈtiːna ˈhɪŋɡɪs]; born Martina Hingisová; 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Cô đã giành 5 danh hiệu Grand Slam đánh đơn (3 Úc Mở rộng, 1 Wimbledon, và 1 Mỹ Mở rộng).Cô cũng giành 9 danh hiệu Grand Slam … In the final they lost to Makarova and Vesnina in three sets. Although her serve had been recorded as high as 107 mph (173 km/h), her first serve was typically delivered at 89 mph (144 km/h), and her second serve speed averaged 78 mph (125 km/h). She won 25 titles and took part in 10 final matches as runner-up. Hingis retired after the 2017 WTA Finals while ranked world No. (mars 2015) å spille dobbel og mixed dobbel og nådde blant annet finalen i US Open i damedobbel i 2014. This is a list of the main career statistics of Swiss former professional tennis player Martina Hingis. In February, Hingis represented Switzerland in the Fed Cup tie against Germany alongside Belinda Bencic and Timea Bacsinszky. 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. [64], 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. Former World No. *She won a Grand Slam junior title at age 12. [83], In the first two tournaments of their new partnership, Hingis and Chan suffered some "tough" losses. Hingis compensated for her lack of power with superior movement, anticipation, finesse, point construction, shot selection, and knowledge of the geometry of the court. SR=strike rate (events won/competed). 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. However, Hingis paired with Leander Paes in the mixed doubles to win the title. Martina Hingis, Swiss 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. WHAT HAPPENED: Despite dominating the WTA tour by winning six doubles titles since pairing up in March, Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-jan hadn't tasted Grand Slam glory. WTA results and statistics from 1995 to 2017. The win gave Hingis her first Grand Slam in women's doubles since the 2002 Australian Open. [50], In 2009, Hingis took part in the British television dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing. In July, she became the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon since Lottie Dod in 1887 by beating Jana Novotná in the final. Martina Hingis, 36, won the women's doubles and the mixed doubles at the recent US Open, taking her overall grand slam total to 25. "[73] In mixed doubles, Hingis and Paes lost in the quarterfinals to Mirza and Ivan Dodig. Her two-handed backhand was her most effective groundstroke, and was used to redirect power down the line. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles simultaneously. Hingis qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 20 years after her last Olympic appearance. [114], At the US Open, Hingis emerged victorious from both the women's and the mixed doubles competition. [44], Hingis' 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. [2] In 2005, Tennis magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis era. Her first Grand Slam title came in 1996 at age 15, when she and Helena Suková won the women’s doubles title at Wimbledon. By continuing to browse our website, you agree to our use of cookies. [119], Hingis announced her retirement at the WTA finals in Singapore in October, 2017.[120].
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