Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis

Hingis at the 2014 Madrid Open
Country (sports)   Switzerland
Residence Feusisberg, Switzerland
Born (1980-09-30) 30 September 1980
Košice, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.70 metres (5 ft 7 in)
Turned pro 1994
Retired 2002–2005; 2007–2013
Plays Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money US$22,593,544[1]
Int. Tennis HoF 2013 (member page)
Singles
Career record 548–135 (80.23%)
Career titles 43 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking No. 1 (31 March 1997)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open W (1997, 1998, 1999)
French Open F (1997, 1999)
Wimbledon W (1997)
US Open W (1997)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals W (1998, 2000)
Olympic Games 2R (1996)
Doubles
Career record 403–87 (82.24%)
Career titles 54 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking No. 1 (June 8, 1998)
Current ranking No. 1 (March 28, 2016)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open W (1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2016)
French Open W (1998, 2000)
Wimbledon W (1996, 1998, 2015)
US Open W (1998, 2015)
Other doubles tournaments
Tour Finals W (1999, 2000, 2015)
Olympic Games QF (1996)
Mixed doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open W (2006, 2015)
French Open QF (1996)
Wimbledon W (2015)
US Open W (2015)
Team competitions
Fed Cup F (1998), record 26–6
Hopman Cup W (2001)
Coaching career (2013–present)
Coaching achievements
Coachee Singles Titles total 2
Coachee(s) Doubles Titles total 2
Last updated on: 8 February 2016.

Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in doubles by the WTA. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1[2] and has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three at the Australian Open, one at Wimbledon, and one at the US Open), twelve Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-one major titles. In addition, she has won the season-ending WTA Championships two times in singles and three times in doubles.

Hingis set a series of "youngest ever" records, 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 2002, at the age of 22. She had won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles titles up until that point, and, according to Forbes, had been the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001.[3][4] After several surgeries and long recuperations, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6 and winning three singles titles, and also receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year.[5] She retired in November 2007, following months of injuries and a positive test for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, during the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, which led to a two-year suspension from the sport.

In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play the North American hard court season, partnering Daniela Hantuchová.[6][7] After achieving moderate success in 2014 playing with Sabine Lisicki and Flavia Pennetta,[8] she partnered with Sania Mirza in March 2015. Together they won three consecutive Grand Slam titles: the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 US Open, and the 2016 Australian Open.

Widely considered one of the greatest Swiss sportspeople in history and an all-time tennis great, Tennis magazine ranked her in 2005 as the 22nd-greatest player, male or female, 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] In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame; being appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador.[10][11]

Childhood and early career

Hingis was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová Molitor,[12] to accomplished tennis players[13] Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis. 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 nineteenth in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. Martina Hingis spent her early childhood growing up in the town of Rožnov (now in 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 in Switzerland when she was seven.[14] Her mother remarried to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician.[17] Martina Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization.

Hingis began playing tennis when she was two years old and entered her first tournament at age four.[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.[19] In 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open.[20]

She made her professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. She ended the year ranked World no. 87.[20]

Grand Slam success and period of dominance

1996

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.[21] She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany. She reached the singles quarterfinals at the 1996 Australian Open and the singles semifinals of the 1996 US Open. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica Seles in the final at Oakland. Hingis then lost to Graf at the year-end WTA Tour Championships final.

1997

In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed 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). 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. She won the Australian Open women's doubles with Natasha Zvereva.

1998

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,[22] (the Australian Open with 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.

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.[23] 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.[24] After a shock first-round, straight set, loss to Jelena Dokić at Wimbledon,[25] 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.

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, 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.

Injuries and first retirement from tennis

2001

In 2001, Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup.[26] Hingis was undefeated in singles during the event, defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn, Nicole Pratt, Amanda Coetzer, and Monica Seles.[27]

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[28] 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.[29] "I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies."[30] In several interviews, she indicated she wanted to go back to her country and coach full-time.

During this segment of her tennis career, Hingis won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles events. She held the World No. 1 singles ranking for a total of 209 weeks (fifth most following Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova (after whom she was named), Chris Evert, and Serena Williams). In 2005, Tennis magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.

Return to the game

Martina Hingis at the Australian Open, 2006

2005

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. After the loss, she claimed that she had no further plans for a 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 WTA Tour in 2006.

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 Maria Sharapova in the semifinals of the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo before losing in the final to World No. 9 Elena Dementieva. Hingis competed in Dubai then, reaching the quarter-finals before falling to Sharapova. At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, 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 Internazionali BNL d'Italia 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 Women's Tennis Association 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 Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian Olga Puchkova in the final. The following week in 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 eighth 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 (U.S.$1,159,537). Hingis also ranked as number 7 on the Annual Top Google News Searches in 2006.[31]

2007

Martina Hingis in Miami, Florida, 2007

At the Australian Open, Hingis won her first three rounds without losing a set before defeating China's 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[32] 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 German Open caused her to withdraw from the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, 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.[33] In the third round, Hingis lost to Laura Granville of the United States, and stated afterwards she should not have entered the tournament.[34]

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.[35]

ITF suspension and second retirement

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.[36]

Hingis' urine sample contained an estimated 42 nanograms per millilitre of benzoylecgonine, less than half the level required for a positive confirmatory test for cocaine in the workplace under the United States government Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration guidelines.[36][37] The International Tennis Federation's report on the matter mentions 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."[36] As the amount was so minute, Hingis appealed, arguing the likely cause was contamination rather than intentional ingestion.[38] In January 2008, the International Tennis Federation's tribunal suspended Hingis from the sport for two years, effective from October 2007.[39][40]

2008

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 WTA Tour. In a rematch of their 1997 Wimbledon final, Hingis defeated Jana Novotná.[41]

2009

In 2009, Hingis took part in the British television dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing. She was the bookies' favourite for the competition,[42] but went out in the first week after performing a Waltz and a Rumba.[43]

2010

At the start of 2010, Hingis defeated former world number one Lindsay Davenport, and hinted at a possible return to tennis. In February, she announced having committed to a full season with the World TeamTennis Tour in 2010.[44] She had previously played for World Team Tennis in 2005 to assist her first comeback. Sparking thoughts that she was trying to come back to the WTA tour, she committed to playing at the Nottingham Masters.[45] On 5 May 2010, it was announced that Hingis would reunite with her doubles partner Anna Kournikova. Kournikova was participating in competitive tennis for the first time in seven years, in the Invitational Ladies Doubles event at Wimbledon.[46][47] Hingis also confirmed that she would play at the Tradition-ICAP Liverpool International championship in June 2010, preceding Wimbledon,[48] before playing in the Manchester Masters after Wimbledon.[49] Liverpool like the Nottingham and Manchester Masters are organised by her management company Northern Vision.[50] At the Nottingham Masters, Hingis faced Michaëlla Krajicek[51][52] (twice), Olga Savchuk[53] and Monika Wejnert.[54] Hingis won just once in the event, against Wejnert. After the Nottingham event Billie Jean King stated that she believed that Hingis may return to the WTA Tour on the doubles circuit, after competing in the WTT.[55]

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.[56][57]

On 3 July, Hingis partnering Lindsay Davenport won the Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title, defeating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final.[58] 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: Coming out of retirement

Hingis practicing at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, August 2013

In April 2013 Hingis agreed to coach Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova;[59] however, after a disagreement about how to prepare for tournaments they parted company in June.[60]

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 Sabine Lisicki during the 2014 Australian Open. She took participation in Champions Tennis League India to boost tennis in the country.[61]

Hingis at Aegon International Tennis, June 2014

Hingis returned to the WTA Tour at Indian Wells, partnering Sabine Lisicki in the doubles. They lost in the first round to 3-time Grand Slam finalists Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the match tie-break. At the 2014 Sony Open Tennis in Miami, Hingis/Lisicki scored their first win of 2014 with a straight sets victory over 6th seeded Czechs Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Šafářová. The team reached the quarterfinals with a straight sets victory over Romanian Sorana Cîrstea and Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for the loss of just three games. They next played and defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shvedova, the only other team who had not lost a set. Hingis and Lisicki then went on to reach the finals of the tournament, beating fifth seeds and Indian Wells finalists Cara Black and Sania Mirza in the semifinals in straight sets, Hingis' first since 2007. In the final, they defeated Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in straight sets, marking Hingis' first title since she won the Qatar Ladies Open in 2007, partnered by Maria Kirilenko, and her first Premier Mandatory doubles title since winning the 2001 title in Moscow, partnered by Anna Kournikova. This was also her third win in Miami, having won her last title there in 1999.

Following early losses in both Rome and Madrid, Hingis missed the 2014 French Open and made a return on the grass in Eastbourne. Partnering Flavia Pennetta she reached the final where they lost to Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan of Taiwan in the match tie-break. Hingis then appeared at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships in both the women's and mixed doubles. She lost in the first round of the women's doubles with partner Vera Zvonareva to the 4th-seeded team of Cara Black and Sania Mirza. In the mixed doubles she reached the quarter-finals with partner Bruno Soares where they lost to Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets.

For the North American hardcourt season, Hingis continued her partnership with Italy's Flavia Pennetta. Following a quarter-final loss in Montreal to top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, the team lost in the first round in Cincinnati. Entering as an unseeded team at the 2014 US Open, Hingis and Pennetta reached the final, beating 3 seeded teams en route and without losing a set in any of their matches. In the final they lost to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in 3 sets.

At the latter end of the season, Hingis and Flavia Pennetta won 2 titles at tournaments in Wuhan and Moscow. At the $2,440,070 tournament in Wuhan, they beat Cara Black and Caroline Garcia to take the title; in Moscow they again beat Caroline Garcia but this time with partner Arantxa Parra Santonja.

2015: Five Major titles, 3rd doubles year-end championship

Hingis and Mirza after winning the 2015 Wimbledon doubles title

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. Hingis played at the 2015 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 Grand Slam 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 up 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 2015 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the 2015 Miami Open, also winning afterwise the 2015 Family Circle Cup. They were defeated in the first round in Stuttgart. At the 2015 Mutua 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 2015 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 July 11, 2015, Hingis and Mirza beat Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena 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. Hingis then repeated that success the following day in the mixed doubles final partnering Leander Paes, crushing Alexander Peya and Tímea Babos in straight sets.

After two semifinal losses in Toronto and Cincinnati, Hingis won the mixed doubles title at the 2015 US Open on September 12, partnering Leander 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.[62] Then Hingis and Mirza headed towards the WTA Finals as top seeds. They won all their group matches, including against Kops-Jones/Spears, Hlavackova/Hradecka and Babos/Mladenovic. In semifinals they beat the Chan sisters to advance to the final. On November 1 they beat Spanish Muguruza/Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3 to win the title. That month Hingis participated at the Champions Tennis League in India, playing for the Hyderabad Aces team.[63]

2016: Continued success

In January, Hingis and Mirza won at Brisbane and Sydney. They then won the doubles tournament at the 2016 Australian Open, defeating Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie 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."[64] In mixed doubles, Hingis and Paes lost in the quarterfinals to Mirza and Ivan Dodig. In February, Hingis represented Switzerland in the Fed Cup tie against Germany alongside Belinda Bencic and Timea Bacsinszky. Switzerland beat Germany 3-2, with Hingis & Bencic clinching the doubles rubber. Switzerland advances to the semifinals, where they will face defending champions the Czech Republic.

The duo's winning-streak record of 41 matches ended in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Qatar Total Open, losing there to Kasatkina/Vesnina.[65]

Hingis and Mirza then proceeded to the BNP Paribas Open to defend their title. They started the tournament by defeating Casey Dellacqua, who just returned from an injury lay off, and Sam Stosur in straight sets. However, they suffered a shock as the unseeded Vania King/Alla Kudryavtseva defeated them in straight sets, 7-6(7), 6-4.

Career statistics

Singles performance timeline

Key
W  F  SF QF R# RR Q# A P Z# PO G F-S SF-B NMS NH
(W) Won tournament; reached (F) final, (SF) semifinal, (QF) quarterfinal; (R#) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a (RR) round-robin stage; reached a (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent from tournament; played in a (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; won a (G) gold, (F-S) silver or (SF-B) bronze Olympic medal; a (NMS) downgraded Masters Series/1000 tournament; or (NH) tournament not held.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended.
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Career SR Career 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 A A F QF W F W A A A A A RR A 2 / 6 16–5

Grand Slam singles finals: 12 (5–7)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Opponent in the final Score in the final
Winner 1997 Australian Open Hard France Mary Pierce 6–2, 6–2
Runner-up 1997 French Open Clay Croatia Iva Majoli 4–6, 2–6
Winner 1997 Wimbledon Grass Czech Republic Jana Novotná 2–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner 1997 US Open Hard United States Venus Williams 6–0, 6–4
Winner 1998 Australian Open (2) Hard Spain Conchita Martínez 6–3, 6–3
Runner-up 1998 US Open Hard United States Lindsay Davenport 3–6, 5–7
Winner 1999 Australian Open (3) Hard France Amélie Mauresmo 6–2, 6–3
Runner-up 1999 French Open (2) Clay Germany Steffi Graf 6–4, 5–7, 2–6
Runner-up 1999 US Open (2) Hard United States Serena Williams 3–6, 6–7(4–7)
Runner-up 2000 Australian Open Hard United States Lindsay Davenport 1–6, 5–7
Runner-up 2001 Australian Open (2) Hard United States Jennifer Capriati 4–6, 3–6
Runner-up 2002 Australian Open (3) 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 SR W–L
Australian Open A 1R 1R W W W F SF W A 2R A A A 3R W 5 / 10 36–6
French Open A A QF SF W F W A A A A A A A QF 2 / 6 27–4
Wimbledon A 2R W QF W A 2R A A A A A A 1R W 3 / 7 23–4
US Open A 3R SF SF W A 3R QF QF A 3R A 1R F W 2 / 11 37–9
Grand Slam W-L 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 11 / 34 123–22
Tour Championships A A QF QF QF W W A A A A A A A W 3/ 6 11–3

Grand Slam doubles finals: 15 finals (12–3)

By winning the 1998 US Open title, Hingis completed the doubles Career Grand Slam, becoming the 17th female player in history to achieve this, as well as the youngest. It also meant she completed the Calendar Year Grand Slam, becoming the fourth woman in history to achieve the feat.

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

Mixed doubles

Tournament 1996 1997 1998–99 2000 2001–05 2006 2007–12 2013 2014 2015 2016 SR W–L
Australian Open A A A A A W A A A W QF 2 / 3 12–1
French Open QF A A A A 2R A A A 2R 0 / 3 4–2
Wimbledon 2R QF A A A A A A QF W 1 / 4 11–3
US Open SF A A QF A A A 1R A W 1 / 4 8–2
Grand Slam W-L 6–3 3–1 0–0 2–0 0–0 6–0 0–0 0–1 2–1 14–1 4 / 14 35–8

Grand Slam mixed doubles: 4 finals (4–0)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Winner 2006 Australian Open Hard India Mahesh Bhupathi Russia Elena Likhovtseva
Canada Daniel Nestor 		6–3, 6–3
Winner 2015 Australian Open (2) Hard India Leander Paes France Kristina Mladenovic
Canada Daniel Nestor 		6–4, 6–3
Winner 2015 Wimbledon Grass India Leander Paes Hungary Tímea Babos
Austria Alexander Peya 		6–1, 6–1
Winner 2015 US Open Hard India Leander Paes United States Bethanie Mattek-Sands
United States Sam Querrey 		6–4, 3–6, [10–7]

Records

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

Awards

Notable accolades

Equipment endorsements

In the 1990s, Hingis was sponsored by Sergio Tacchini. She sued the company in 2001, demanding $40 million for making allegedly defective shoes that injured her feet.[73] In 1998 already she suffered a foot injury, and she withdrew from the Wimbledon doubles competition in 1999; Hingis alleged that a Tacchini-appointed specialist recommended her shoes be changed, a recommendation which was ignored by the company, which had fired her as spokeswoman in April 1999 due to an alleged breach of contract.[74] She was then sponsored by Adidas from 1999 until 2008.

Hingis's current on court apparel is manufactured by Tonic Lifestyle Apparel, having her own clothing line, Tonic Tennis by Martina Hingis.[75] She is sponsored by Yonex for racquets and shoes.[76][77]

Personal life

In 2000, Hingis dated Swedish tennis player Magnus Norman[78] and Spanish golfer Sergio García. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in August 2007.[79] She dated former tennis players Ivo Heuberger and Julian Alonso.[80]

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 the previous April.[81] On 8 July 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper Schweizer Illustrierte the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year.[82]

Hingis speaks five languages: Swiss German, Standard German, Czech, English and French.[83]

See also

References

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