Martina Hingis
Alias: Martina Hingisova Molitor
| Born | September 30, 1980 in Kosice, Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia) |
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| Class of HOF | 2013 |
| Height | 5'7" (170 cm) |
| Weight | 138 lbs (62,5 kg) |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Bio | Martina Hingis is a Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as world no. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won ten Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. Hingis was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová Molitor to accomplished tennis players 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. 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). Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987 and emigrated to Trübbach in Switzerland when she was seven. Her mother remarried to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician. 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. In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open. In 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open. She made her professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. She ended the year ranked World no. 87 Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records, including youngest Grand Slam singles champion of the 20th century 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. After several surgeries and long recuperations, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006. She then climbed to world no. 6 and won three singles titles. Widely considered an all-time great, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time in June 2011. In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play a doubles tournament, partnering Daniela Hantuchová in California, and said she might also play singles and doubles tournaments in the future. She played doubles with Sabine Lisicki, whom she also coached briefly in 2014, until Wimbledon. After that, she partnered up with Flavia Pennetta. She currently plays with Sania Mirza and is ranked World No. 2 in doubles as of 20 July 2015; together they won the Wimbledon Championships on 11 July 2015. Hingis has dated Swedish tennis player Magnus Norman and Spanish golfer Sergio García. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in August 2007. She denied a rumored romantic relationship with Sol Campbell (the rumors arose when they met a few times professionally in a publicity launch of their common sponsor (Adidas), and also in London, due to them being goodwill ambassadors for the UN that time). She has also dated former tennis players Ivo Heuberger and Julian Alonso. On 10 December 2010, in Paris, Hingis married then-24-year-old Thibault Hutin, a French equestrian show jumper whom she had met at a competition the previous April. On 8 July 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper Schweizer Illustrierte the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year. In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. |
| Tournament | AO | RG | W | US | Win-Loss |
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| 1995 | R64 | R32 | R128 | R16 | 6-4 |
| 1996 | QF | R32 | R16 | SF | 14-4 |
| 1997 | CH | RU | CH | CH | 27-1 |
| 1998 | CH | SF | SF | RU | 23-3 |
| 1999 | CH | RU | R128 | RU | 19-3 |
| 2000 | RU | SF | QF | SF | 20-4 |
| 2001 | RU | SF | R128 | SF | 16-4 |
| 2002 | RU | A | A | R16 | 9-2 |
| 2003 | A | A | A | A | 0-0 |
| 2004 | A | A | A | A | 0-0 |
| 2005 | A | A | A | A | 0-0 |
| 2006 | QF | QF | R32 | R64 | 11-4 |
| 2007 | QF | A | R32 | R32 | 8-3 |
| Win-Loss | 52-7 | 35-8 | 23-8 | 43-9 | 153-32 |