Martina Hingis
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Hingis 2016 at the French Open | |||||||||||||
Nation: | Switzerland | ||||||||||||
Birthday: | September 30, 1980 | ||||||||||||
Size: | 170 cm | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 59 kg | ||||||||||||
1st professional season: | 1994 | ||||||||||||
Resignation: | 1) February 2003 2) November 2007 3) October 2017 |
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Playing hand: | Right, two-handed backhand | ||||||||||||
Prize money: | 24,749,074 US dollars | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 548: 135 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 43 WTA , 2 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 1 (March 31, 1997) | ||||||||||||
Weeks as No. 1: | 209 | ||||||||||||
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Career record: | 490: 110 | ||||||||||||
Career title: | 64 WTA, 1 ITF | ||||||||||||
Highest ranking: | 1 (June 8, 1998) | ||||||||||||
Weeks as No. 1: | 90 | ||||||||||||
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Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links ) |
Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980 as Martina Hingisová in Košice , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Swiss tennis player . In individual she was 209 weeks long world number one and won five Grand Slam tournaments . She won thirteen other Grand Slam titles in doubles and seven in mixed. Besides Serena Williams, Hingis is the only tennis player to have won the five WTA awards: Player of the Year, Doubles Team of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, Newcomer of the Year and Returner of the Year.
Career record
Martina Hingis won 38 titles in WTA tournaments in singles and 42 in doubles. In addition, she won five Grand Slam titles in singles - three times the Australian Open and once each Wimbledon and the US Open - as well as thirteen Grand Slam titles in doubles and seven in mixed. In 1998 she succeeded in winning all Grand Slam tournaments with various partners in the same year. Between 1997 and 2001 she was at the top of the world rankings for 209 weeks. She is the youngest player to ever top the individual rankings. At 16 years and 3 months, she was also the youngest winner of a Grand Slam singles tournament in the 20th century. After retiring at the age of only 22, she decided to make a comeback in 2006, which once again led her to sixth place in the world rankings. On November 1, 2007, she said goodbye to professional sport for the second time. In 2013 she returned to the WTA Tour , this time only for the doubles competition.
Hingis is one of seven players who have topped the world rankings in both singles and doubles. Only she, her former idol Martina Navratilova and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario even managed to do this at the same time.
biography
Childhood and Beginnings (until 1993)
Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980 in Košice in the Slovak part of what was then Czechoslovakia , now Slovakia . Her parents are the tennis player Karol Hingis, who belongs to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia , and the tennis player Melanie Molitor from Moravia . Hingis got its first name after the tennis player Martina Navrátilová , who was also born in Czechoslovakia and was adored by her mother.
After her parents divorced, her mother and Hingis moved to Trübbach in Switzerland in 1988 in the canton of St. Gallen . Hingis is said to have started tennis training at the age of two; she herself said: "I supported myself on the tennis racket when I couldn't walk properly." She played her first tournament when she was four years old. In 1990, at the age of ten, she already played in the 2nd team of the Winterthur tennis club TC Schützenwiese in the National League B at the interclub championships. Two years later she became Swiss champion with the 1st team.
After several victories at junior tournaments in 1993 in Langenthal (Switzerland), Hingis won the first ITF tournament at the age of twelve . In the same year she won the junior women’s tournament at the French Open . At twelve, she was the youngest player to win a Grand Slam title as a junior. In 1994 she was able to defend this title; she also won the junior title at Wimbledon and was number 1 in this age group.
On the professional tour (1994–1995)
In 1994, at the age of 13 and number 387 in the WTA world rankings, Hingis made her debut on the professional tour in Zurich . There she defeated Patty Fendick before losing to Mary Pierce in the second round . In Essen and Filderstadt she reached the quarter-finals, and by the end of the year she was already ranked 87th.
Noticeable in addition to her young age was her tactically clever game. Contrary to the trend towards increasingly harder hits, the so-called "power play", Hingis' game was characterized by good anticipation, precise placement of the hits, a lot of feel for the ball and good net play, with which she countered many opponents. This made Hingis the natural antithesis of the approaching Williams generation, who began to transform tennis into a discipline for snipers, as a commentator for the Süddeutsche Zeitung put it.
In 1995, with her first round win at the Australian Open , the 14-year-old became the youngest player to ever win a match at a Grand Slam tournament in singles. In Hamburg, where Hingis defeated top ten players for the first time with Jana Novotná and Anke Huber , she reached her first WTA final. At the US Open , she reached the second round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time . At the end of the year it was already in 16th place.
Before her breakthrough: youngest winner at Wimbledon (1996)
In 1996, the 15-year-old reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time at the Australian Open, in which she was defeated by Amanda Coetzer in three sets. She achieved another success in the quarter-finals of the Open Italian Championships in Rome ; at the third meeting with world number one Steffi Graf she was able to defeat the German for the first time with 2: 6, 6: 2 and 6: 3.
The highlight of the year were the Wimbledon Championships , where she won the doubles competition alongside Helena Suková . At 15 years and nine months, she became the youngest ever Wimbledon title winner in the 20th century. Only the Englishwoman Charlotte Dod was a little younger when she won her individual victory in the 1880s. Steffi Graf then meant the end for them in Wimbledon as well as at the US Open (in the eighth and semi-finals). Between these tournaments, Hingis also took part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta; in doubles she reached the quarterfinals with Patty Schnyder. On October 7th she was among the top ten for the first time.
After victories over Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , the number 2 in the world rankings, Lindsay Davenport (no. 6) and Anke Huber (no. 5), she celebrated her first tournament victory in the individual in Filderstadt . In the final in Oakland she defeated Monica Seles 6: 2 and 6: 0. At the WTA Tour Championships at the end of the year, the now 16-year-old was again subject to the world's number one Graf. At this point, Hingis was already number 4 in the world.
Three Grand Slam titles and number one in the world (1997)
The year started promisingly and should be the best on the tour for Hingis; she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open and was in the final of Roland Garros; in addition, she achieved nine more tournament victories. That resulted in a win rate of 93.8%. In the absence of Steffi Graf, who only played 19 games in 1997 due to an injury, Hingis became the youngest world number one of all time.
The tennis year began with a first victory at the tournament in Sydney , before Hingis reached the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. In the final of the Australian Open, she clearly defeated Mary Pierce 6-2 and 6-2. Sydney and Melbourne only marked the beginning of a long streak of success. With 37 consecutive victories at the beginning of the year, Hingis equalized Martina Navrátilová's record - the second best start of the season of all time after Steffi Graf's 45 victories in 1987. On March 31, 1997, she became the youngest number 1 in the world rankings.
In the final of Roland Garros, the only Grand Slam tournament that Hingis could not win in 1997, she surprisingly lost to the outsider Iva Majoli . She had previously defeated two former French Open champions, Arantxa Sánchez and Monica Seles.
A few weeks later, Hingis set another exclamation point at Wimbledon. With her victory on the sacred turf against serve and volley specialist Jana Novotná (2: 6, 6: 2 and 6: 3), she became the youngest winner in women's singles in the 20th century. Only the Englishwoman Charlotte Dod had won the tournament a few months earlier in 1884, in the prehistoric times of tennis.
Hingis' successful streak also continued at the US Open. After smooth two-set wins over Arantxa Sánchez and Lindsay Davenport, she was also in the final of the American Open Championships for the first time. They clearly defeated 17-year-old Venus Williams 6-0 and 6-2; they had met twice before - each time with the better ending for Hingis. But it should be the up-and-coming Venus Williams who soon challenged the Swiss woman's position with her power game.
Hingis dominated the tour in 1997 and reacted somewhat thinly to the throw-in that she benefited from Steffi Graf's absence. Several times she expressed herself disrespectfully about their playing ability. The two met in seven games between 1995 and 1997, five times with the better end for Graf. The eagerly awaited meeting (supposedly the only one this year) in the Tokyo final did not take place due to an injury at Graf.
Australian Open victory and four Grand Slam titles in doubles (1998)
rank | Tennis player | Weeks |
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1. | Steffi Graf | 377 |
2. | Martina Navratilova | 332 |
3. | Serena Williams | 319 |
4th | Chris Evert | 260 |
5. | Martina Hingis | 209 |
6th | / / Monica Seles | 178 |
7th | Justine Henin | 117 |
As of October 9, 2017 |
The year began as successfully as the previous year. Hingis won the Australian Open again. In the final, she defeated Conchita Martínez 6: 3 and 6: 3. But then the series of successes broke; semi-final defeats in Wimbledon and Paris against Monica Seles and Jana Novotná followed the entry into the final of the US Open, in which Hingis again remained without a win against Davenport. Including the year-end WTA Tour Championships, she only won five tournaments. Hingis revealed more and more weaknesses against the young, up-and-coming generation of "power" players like the sisters Venus and Serena Williams . Even Jennifer Capriati returned to the tour. And Lindsay Davenport, always a powerful player, now presented herself physically and mentally in better and better shape.
It was Davenport who ended Hingis' 80-week supremacy after her victory over the Swiss in Flushing Meadows in October 1998. Hingis ended the year in second place in the world rankings. She held herself harmless by winning all Grand Slam titles in doubles. After Martina Navrátilová and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, she was also the third player to top both world rankings at the same time.
Victory in Australia and final in Paris (1999)
The year 1999 began like the previous years. Hingis won her third Australian Open title in a row. This was last achieved by Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. At the side of Anna Kurnikowa , she also won the doubles. The Russian woman and the “Swiss Miss”, as Hingis was sometimes called, formed a team that not only made headlines in terms of sport. In the colorful forest of leaves, the two were soon also referred to as the "Spice Girls of tennis". Her former partner Jana Novotná, at the time 30 years old with whom she had won several Grand Slam titles, had described her as "too old and too slow".
Despite some successes and her impressive game, Hingis made a name for herself this year with little respectful remarks about some of her opponents. She presented herself increasingly thin-skinned towards the competitors, whose powerful game she was now more and more subject to. Hingis drew criticism from the media and parts of the public who accused it of disrespect. Targeting the athletic and openly acknowledging her homosexuality Australian Open final opponent Amélie Mauresmo , Hingis said she was "half a man". Doping allegations were also spread. The final match in Melbourne was characterized by negative tension, at the end of the match the players only shook hands well. Less charming comments followed later that year about the muscular Williams sisters, Davenport and Graf.
This created a particularly heated atmosphere and at the same time increased the anticipation of the first meeting of the recovered Germans and their successor on the tennis throne. The constellation hoped for by many occurred at the French Open. Hingis and Graf contested the Roland Garros final. An interview with the Swiss woman the day before heated up the irritable atmosphere. Hingis stated that tomorrow will show that Graf's time is over and the generation change has finally taken place. For the warm-up before the game, she herself confirmed the impression of the Weltwoche interviewer in December 2017; Graf would have behaved noticeably unsportsmanlike and Hingis could not practice volleys on the net.
Hingis, who started out much stronger than Graf, who initially seemed uncertain, won the first set 6: 4. Early in the second set, after a controversial decision on her disadvantage, Hingis was thrown off the mark: She also turned the audience against her and received a point deduction when she went to the opponent's side, where there was no print outside the line. Graf acted unimpressed, was able to equalize later, before she had to accept another break when the score was 4: 4. Hingis was only three points away from victory on his own serve, but Graf won the set 7: 5 after an unusually large number of mistakes by her opponent. Now she increasingly determined the game. When the score was 5: 2, Hingis tried to irritate Graf with serves from below. But Graf converted her second match point to 4: 6, 7: 5 and 6: 2. It was the last meeting of the two, whose record stands with seven wins and two defeats for the Germans.
In retrospect, not a few consider the final lost to Graf in Paris to be the key to the further development of Hingis. In the years that followed, it was not only victorious on the red ashes in Paris. Hingis could no longer triumph in the other major tournaments in the individual. Her victory at the Australian Open in 1999 was to be the last individual success at Grand Slam tournaments. At the US Open, Hingis suffered a defeat in the final against the up-and-coming Serena Williams. In the final of the WTA Tour Championships she was also defeated by Lindsay Davenport in two sets.
Despite the defeats in the most important finals, Hingis ended the year with seven tournament victories as number 1 in the world.
Injury problems, power players and resignation (2000-2003)
In the following years the trend from 1999 continued. In addition to increasing injury problems, the years 2000 to 2003 were marked for Hingis by the increasing competition from the so-called power players. In January, Hingis' series of successes at the Australian Open, their most successful Grand Slam tournament overall, ended; she was subject to Lindsay Davenport. It was the only Grand Slam final that Hingis was to reach during the year. The upheaval in women's tennis continued: a semi-final defeat in Paris against Mary Pierce was followed by three-set defeats against Venus Williams in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and in the semi-finals of the US Open. Nevertheless, Hingis remained number 1 in women's tennis with nine tournament wins.
The year 2001 began like the previous one. She won the Hopman Cup 2001 with Roger Federer and reached the final of the Australian Open for the fifth time in a row. But as in the previous year, she was defeated by Jennifer Capriati (4-6, 3-6). The renewed failure also had an impact on the relationship with her mother, who was unceremoniously retired from Hingis as a trainer.
At the French Open, too, Hingis “only” reached the semi-finals. As in Melbourne, she was defeated by Jennifer Capriati. A low blow followed just a few weeks later at Wimbledon. Hingis surprisingly failed in round one. At the US Open, the world number one was eliminated in the semifinals; she was clearly defeated by Serena Williams in two sentences.
Injury problems intensified the development; in October 2001, Hingis had to undergo an operation on his right foot. By the end of the year it fell back to fourth place.
In 2002, Hingis reached the final of the Australian Open for the sixth time in a row; there she lost again to Capriati in a dramatic encounter. Hingis showed nerves, because she lost a 6: 4 and a 4: 0 lead and lost in the end with 6: 4, 6: 7 and 2: 6.
A few months later, in May 2002, injury problems reappeared. Hingis had to undergo another operation on his left foot. Speculations about her failure to return to the courts made the rounds. Reports about her poor physical condition alternated with the assessment that the Swiss woman was actually fit, but shy away from a comeback due to her relative lack of success against players like Davenport, the Williams sisters and Capriati.
Her return ended after a defeat against Jelena Dementjewa at the tournament in Filderstadt in autumn 2002. Hingis announced her temporary withdrawal at a press conference. She emphasized that she suffered from chronic foot problems and was currently unable to play tennis professionally.
In February 2003, at the age of 22, Martina Hingis announced her resignation. At that time she had won 40 singles tournaments and 36 doubles titles and had been number 1 in the tennis world for a total of 209 weeks - the fourth longest world ranking in the history of women's tennis.
Comeback (2005)
In February 2005, Hingis made a comeback attempt at the WTA tournament in Pattaya . She emphasized that it was not about world ranking points or the prize money. She complied with the request of a friend who was involved in a Thai charity for impoverished and homeless women and children. Hingis then lost her first game 6: 1, 2: 6, 2: 6 against the German Marlene Weingärtner .
In mid-2005, Hingis returned to the court. She gave her acceptance for the American World Team Tennis League, a team competition in which mainly former professional players take part. There she reached an 18: 1 record, with which she led her team to win the league. Among other things, she beat Martina Navrátilová.
First comeback and second career (2006-2007)
The comeback began on January 1, 2006 at the tournament in Brisbane on the Gold Coast and ended with a press conference on November 1, 2007, in which Hingis again announced her resignation. In fact, it was unable to build on old successes.
Hingis started out promisingly. At the tournament in Gold Coast in January 2006, she immediately reached the semi-finals in both singles and doubles. At the Australian Open, she made her first Grand Slam appearance in more than two years in the singles quarter-finals, in which she was defeated by the former world number one Clijsters. Together with Mahesh Bhupathi she also won the mixed tournament. It was her 15th Grand Slam title in total.
The following tournaments were also successful: In Tokyo she reached the final of a WTA tournament for the first time in four years. Among other things, she beat the top seeded number 4 in the world, Marija Sharapova , and reached the final, in which she was clearly defeated by Jelena Dementjewa with 2: 6 and 0: 6. At the end of January, Hingis moved back into the top 50 in the tennis world. In Indian Wells she managed to win again for the first time against Lindsay Davenport. At the beginning of April 2006, Hingis was back in 25th place in the world rankings.
On May 4, she lost to Venus Williams in the second round in Warsaw . Only a week later she reached the quarter-finals at the tournament in Berlin, where she had to admit defeat to world number one Amélie Mauresmo in three hard-fought sets. In Rome, Hingis celebrated her first tournament victory after her comeback. On the way to the final, she was able to defeat Venus Williams (0: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3) in the semifinals and Dinara Safina 6: 2 and 7: 5 in the final . She secured her first title after Tokyo in 2002 and with this victory made a jump to 14th place in the world rankings. At the French Open she reached the quarter-finals in 2006, which she lost to Clijsters 6: 7 and 1: 6.
Then light and shadow changed: In Wimbledon, Hingis surprisingly lost to Ai Sugiyama in the third round . A little later she won again against top players: In August she reached the final at the tournament in Montreal with wins over Daniela Hantuchová and Swetlana Kuznetsova before losing to Ana Ivanović with 1: 6 and 3: 6. The finals brought Hingis back into the top ten. On August 22nd, she came back ninth in the ranking for the first time. The subsequent US Open was less successful. The number 8 seeded Hingis failed in the third round against the unset Virginie Razzano .
On September 24th, however, Hingis won the Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships in Seoul . At the Zurich Open she reached the quarter-finals, but then she failed once again due to Svetlana Kuznetsova. Shadows followed at the Masters in Madrid; Qualified as seventh in the ranking, Hingis managed only one victory in the three preliminary round games. A win against Petrowa was followed by three set defeats against the two top players Mauresmo and Henin. Hingis missed the semi-finals.
In January 2007, Hingis reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open again, but as in the previous year, she failed on the world number two Kim Clijsters.
She set a new record at the subsequent tournament in Tokyo: Hingis won without losing a set and for the fifth time in the Japanese capital. She defeated Ivanović clearly in straight sets. With her third tournament victory since her comeback, Hingis climbed to sixth place in the world rankings; this fueled the hope of being able to climb to the top again.
Defeats and injuries followed. In Dubai she was defeated in the quarterfinals Jelena Janković . In Doha and Indian Wells, it failed because of Daniela Hantuchová. Persistent hip and back problems forced Hingis not only to cancel the Charleston and Rome tournaments , but also to renounce the French Open. At a press conference, she announced that she would not return to the tennis court until the injuries had completely healed.
To the surprise of some observers, Hingis decided to start at Wimbledon anyway. As in the previous year, she failed in the third round. After a break of several weeks and an obvious lack of training, she clearly lost against the little-known Laura Granville with 4: 6 and 2: 6.
Setbacks also followed on the hard courts. In San Diego she was defeated by her compatriot Patty Schnyder 1: 6, 7: 6 4 , 3: 6. More early defeats followed. At the US Open, she was defeated by the unseed Belarusian Wiktoryja Asaranka 6: 4, 1: 6 and 0: 6 - having dropped back to world number 16 .
Due to severe hip and back pain, Hingis ended the 2007 season early on October 11th. The defeat at the Beijing Open against Peng Shuai, to whom she lost 5-7 and 1-6, should be her last individual match on the WTA Tour.
Positive doping test and second resignation
On November 1, 2007, Hingis announced her retirement from professional tennis at a media conference in Glattbrugg . She stated that she was accused of using cocaine because of a positive test at the Wimbledon Championships (June 29, 2007 inspection). She denied the allegations against her, claiming that the substance in question was added to her orange juice. Hingis justified her decision with the fact that she did not feel like a year-long legal battle to prove her innocence. On the other hand, she gave her persistent hip and back injuries and her age. In her second career stage from 2006 onwards, she realized that she could physically only stay at the top of the world with great difficulty. She is probably too old for top tennis.
On November 8, 2007, her manager Mario Widmer announced that Hingis would now fight for her reputation, which had been scratched by suspected doping. She wants to challenge the results of her positive doping test.
In 2008 the ITF announced that Martina Hingis would be banned for two years for doping. Results and prize money from Wimbledon 2007 onwards would be canceled.
Hingis, who was world number one for a total of 209 weeks (for the first time on March 31, 1997), had won 43 tournaments in singles and 37 in doubles by then. The career prize pool totaled $ 20,155,811. Your match record in the individual: 548 wins out of 133 defeats.
Another comeback, ten more Grand Slam titles in doubles and mixed and Olympic silver
rank | Tennis player | Weeks |
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1. | Martina Navratilova | 237 |
2. | Liezel Huber | 199 |
3. | Cara Black | 163 |
4th | Lisa Raymond | 137 |
5. | Natallja Sverava | 124 |
6th | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | 111 |
7th | Roberta Vinci | 110 |
As of October 9, 2017 |
In July 2013, Hingis announced that she would be competing in the double competition in Carlsbad with Daniela Hantuchová , making her comeback on the WTA Tour after five years . Their first attempt ended there in round two, the Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears won the third set 10: 3. After she and Hantuchová had reached the second round in Cincinnati and Toronto, they failed in round one at the US Open.
In March 2014, she surprisingly won the double title of the Sony Open Tennis alongside Sabine Lisicki , which brought her back to 60th place in the double world rankings. In September 2014 she reached the final of the US Open with Flavia Pennetta . It was the first time in more than twelve years that she was in the final of a Grand Slam tournament. In September they won the WTA tournament in Wuhan together . On February 1, 2015, she won the mixed competition of the Australian Open alongside Leander Paes and thus her 16th Grand Slam title. In July 2015 she celebrated another Grand Slam title in Wimbledon in the doubles competition with Sania Mirza and in the mixed competition alongside Leander Paes. In September she won - again alongside Leander Paes - the mixed competition and - again alongside Sania Mirza - the doubles competition at the US Open.
In January 2016, just before the Australian Open , Martina Hingis conquered the number 1 position in the WTA doubles world rankings for the first time in almost 16 years, together with her partner Sania Mirza. With Mirza, Hingis also won the double final of the Australian Open against Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká (7: 6, 6: 1); it was her 21st Grand Slam title. Previously, Hingis and Leander Paes were eliminated in the mixed competition against their doubles partner Mirza and the Croatian Ivan Dodig in the quarter-finals. With the victory in mixed at the French Open , both Hingis and her playing partner Leander Paes each completed their career grand slam in the mixed competition. At the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , she won silver with Timea Bacsinszky in the doubles competition .
She won her 23rd Grand Slam title in July 2017 in the mixed competition at Wimbledon, where she was top seeded with the Briton Jamie Murray and the unseeded British-Finnish duo Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen (6-4, 6-4 ) in the final. After the successful double “Santina” (Hingis and Mirza) split up at the end of 2016, Hingis and her new partner Chan Yung-jan already won seven titles in 2017 and consolidated their position in the top ten of the double world rankings.
In September 2017, she and Jamie Murray won the finals of the mixed competition of the US Open and the competition in doubles with Chan Yung-jan. After winning the two at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open 2017 , their ninth title of the year, Hingis was again number one in the double world rankings and her partner Chan was number two from October 2, 2017 . Shortly thereafter, she announced that she would end her career after the WTA Finals . There, Hingis and Chan retired on October 28, 2017 after losing in the semifinals against Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlaváčková .
Awards
- 1995: "Female Rookie of the Year" from Tennis magazine
- 1995: "Most Impressive Newcomer Award" from the WTA
- 1996: "Most Improved Player" on the WTA Tour
- 1997: Athlete of the Year , Associated Press (AP) election
- 1997: Player of the year on the WTA Tour, ITF and Tennis magazine
- 1997: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year (PAP)
- 1997: Europe's Sportswoman of the Year (UEPS)
- 1997: Swiss sportswoman of the year
- 1998: Double player of the year on the WTA Tour (together with Jana Novotná )
- 1999: Double player of the year on the WTA Tour (together with Anna Kurnikowa )
- 2000: WTA Tour Diamond ACES Award
- 2001: WTA Tour Diamond ACES Award
- 2006: Laureus World Sports Awards - Comeback of the year
- 2007: Meredith Inspiration Award
- 2013: Induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
- 2015: Double Player of the Year on the WTA Tour (together with Sania Mirza )
- 2017: Double Player of the Year on the WTA Tour (together with Chan Yung-jan )
- 2017: Davoser Kristall at the 14th International Sports Night
Personal
In November 2006 Hingis got engaged to the Czech tennis professional Radek Štěpánek , and in August 2007 they announced their separation. After a liaison with the lawyer Andreas Bieri until April 2010, Hingis married the French show jumper Thibault Hutin on December 10, 2010. The couple separated in January 2013. In July 2018 she married her former sports doctor Harald Leemann. In 2019 she became the mother of a daughter.
Hingis lives in Feusisberg in the canton of Schwyz and has an apartment in Florida .
Tournament balance sheet
Tournament victories
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singles
No. | date | competition | Topping | Final opponent | Result |
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1. | October 13, 1996 | Filderstadt | Hard court (hall) | Anke Huber | 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3 |
2. | November 10, 1996 | Oakland | Carpet (hall) | Monica Seles | 6: 2, 6: 0 |
3. | January 12, 1997 | Sydney | Hard court | Jennifer Capriati | 6: 1, 5: 7, 6: 1 |
4th | January 26, 1997 | Australian Open | Hard court | Mary Pierce | 6: 2, 6: 2 |
5. | February 2, 1997 | Tokyo | Carpet (hall) | Steffi Graf | without a fight |
6th | February 16, 1997 | Paris | Carpet (hall) | Anke Huber | 6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 3 |
7th | March 29, 1997 | Key Biscayne | Hard court | Monica Seles | 6: 2, 6: 1 |
8th. | April 6, 1997 | Hilton Head | sand | Monica Seles | 3: 6, 6: 3, 7: 6 |
9. | July 6, 1997 | Wimbledon | race | Jana Novotná | 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3 |
10. | July 27, 1997 | Stanford | Hard court | Conchita Martínez | 6-0, 6-2 |
11. | August 3, 1997 | San Diego | Hard court | Monica Seles | 7: 6, 6: 4 |
12. | September 7, 1997 | US Open | Hard court | Venus Williams | 6: 4, 6: 0 |
13. | October 12, 1997 | Filderstadt | Hard court (hall) | Lisa Raymond | 6: 4, 6: 2 |
14th | November 16, 1997 | Philadelphia | Carpet (hall) | Lindsay Davenport | 7: 5, 6: 7, 7: 6 |
15th | February 1, 1998 | Australian Open | Hard court | Conchita Martínez | 6: 3, 6: 3 |
16. | March 15, 1998 | Indian Wells | Hard court | Lindsay Davenport | 6: 3, 6: 4 |
17th | May 3, 1998 | Hamburg | sand | Jana Novotná | 6: 3, 7: 5 |
18th | May 10, 1998 | Rome | sand | Venus Williams | 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 2 |
19th | November 22, 1998 | Tour Championships | Carpet (hall) | Lindsay Davenport | 7: 5, 6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2 |
20th | January 31, 1999 | Australian Open | Hard court | Amélie Mauresmo | 6: 2, 6: 3 |
21st | February 7, 1999 | Tokyo | Carpet (hall) | Amanda Coetzer | 6: 2, 6: 1 |
22nd | April 4, 1999 | Hilton Head | sand | Anna Kurnikowa | 6: 4, 6: 3 |
23. | May 17, 1999 | Berlin | sand | Julie Halard-Decugis | 6-0, 6-1 |
24. | August 8, 1999 | San Diego | Hard court | Venus Williams | 6: 4, 6: 0 |
25th | August 22, 1999 | Toronto | Hard court | Monica Seles | 6: 4, 6: 4 |
26th | October 11, 1999 | Filderstadt | Hard court (hall) | Mary Pierce | 6: 4, 6: 1 |
27. | February 6, 2000 | Tokyo | Carpet (hall) | Sandrine Testud | 6: 3, 7: 5 |
(*) | March 5, 2000 | Scottsdale | Hard court | Lindsay Davenport | * Final not played |
28. | April 2, 2000 | Key Biscayne | Hard court | Lindsay Davenport | 6: 3, 6: 2 |
29 | May 7, 2000 | Hamburg | sand | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | 6: 3, 6: 3 |
30th | June 24, 2000 | 's-Hertogenbosch | race | Ruxandra Dragomir | 6: 2, 3: 0 task |
31. | August 20, 2000 | Montreal | Hard court | Serena Williams | 0: 6, 6: 3, 3: 0 task |
32. | October 8, 2000 | Filderstadt | Hard court (hall) | Kim Clijsters | 6: 0, 6: 3 |
33. | October 15, 2000 | Zurich | Hard court (hall) | Lindsay Davenport | 6: 4, 4: 6, 7: 5 |
34. | October 29, 2000 | Moscow | Carpet (hall) | Anna Kurnikowa | 6: 3, 6: 1 |
35. | November 19, 2000 | Tour Championships | Carpet (hall) | Monica Seles | 6: 7 5 , 6: 4, 6: 4 |
36. | January 13, 2001 | Sydney | Hard court | Lindsay Davenport | 6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 5 |
37. | February 18, 2001 | Doha | Hard court | Sandrine Testud | 6: 3, 6: 2 |
38. | February 24, 2001 | Dubai | Hard court | Nathalie Tauziat | 6: 4, 6: 4 |
39. | January 12, 2002 | Sydney | Hard court | Meghann Shaughnessy | 6: 2, 6: 3 |
40. | February 3, 2002 | Tokyo | Carpet (hall) | Monica Seles | 7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 6: 3 |
41. | May 21, 2006 | Rome | sand | Dinara Safina | 6: 2, 7: 5 |
42. | September 24, 2006 | Calcutta | Hard court (hall) | Olga Putschkova | 6-0, 6-4 |
43. | February 4, 2007 | Tokyo | Carpet (hall) | Ana Ivanović | 6: 4, 6: 2 |
Double
Mixed
No. | date | competition | Topping | partner | Final opponent | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | January 29, 2006 | Australian Open | Hard court | Mahesh Bhupathi |
Daniel Nestor Jelena Lichowzewa |
6: 3, 6: 3 |
2. | February 1, 2015 | Australian Open | Hard court | Leander Paes |
Kristina Mladenovic Daniel Nestor |
6: 4, 6: 3 |
3. | July 12, 2015 | Wimbledon | race | Leander Paes |
Tímea Babos Alexander Peya |
6: 1, 6: 1 |
4th | September 11, 2015 | US Open | Hard court | Leander Paes |
Bethanie Mattek-Sands Sam Querrey |
6: 4, 3: 6, [10: 7] |
5. | 3rd June 2016 | French Open | sand | Leander Paes |
Sania Mirza Ivan Dodig |
4: 6, 6: 4, [10: 8] |
6th | July 16, 2017 | Wimbledon | race | Jamie Murray |
Henri Kontinen Heather Watson |
6: 4, 6: 4 |
7th | September 9, 2017 | US Open | Hard court | Jamie Murray |
Chan Hao-ching Michael Venus |
6: 1, 4: 6, [10: 8] |
Team competitions
No. | date | competition | category | Topping | partner | Final opponent | Result |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | January 6, 2001 | Hopman Cup | ITF | Hard court (hall) | Roger Federer |
Monica Seles Jan-Michael Gambill |
2: 1 |
Career statistics and tournament record
singles
competition
|
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
2007
|
total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Open
|
- | - | 2 | VF | S. | S. | S. | F. | F. | F. | - | - | - | VF |
VF
|
3 |
French Open
|
- | - | 3 | 3 | F. | HF | F. | HF | HF | - | - | - | - | VF | -
|
0 |
Wimbledon
|
- | - | 1 | AF | S. | HF | 1 | VF | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 |
3
|
1 |
US Open
|
- | - | AF | HF | S. | F. | F. | HF | HF | AF | - | - | - | 2 |
3
|
1 |
Tour Championships
|
- | - | - | F. | VF | S. | F. | S. | - | - | - | - | - | RR | -
|
2 |
Indian Wells | na or a. K. | - | S. | VF | F. | HF | F. | - | - | - | HF |
AF
|
1 | |||
Miami
|
- | - | - | 2 | S. | HF | HF | S. | HF | VF | - | - | - | 3 |
3
|
2 |
Hilton Head Island
|
- | - | - | AF | S. | - | S. | - | not carried out | 2 | ||||||
Charleston | not carried out | F. | - | - | - | - | - | -
|
0 | |||||||
Rome
|
- | - | - | F. | - | S. | HF | - | HF | - | - | - | - | S. | -
|
2 |
Berlin
|
- | - | 2 | 2 | - | VF | S. | HF | HF | - | - | - | - | VF |
AF
|
1 |
San Diego | na or a. K. | - | - | VF |
AF
|
0 | ||||||||||
Montreal / Toronto
|
- | - | AF | - | - | HF | S. | S. | - | VF | - | - | - | F. | -
|
2 |
Tokyo
|
- | - | - | HF | S. | F. | S. | S. | F. | S. | - | - | - | F. |
S.
|
5 |
Munich | not carried out | HF | HF | not carried out | 0 | |||||||||||
Zurich
|
- | AF | AF | F. | VF | - | F. | S. | - | - | - | - | - | VF | -
|
1 |
Philadelphia
|
- | - | AF | na or a. K. | 0 | |||||||||||
Moscow | na or a. K. | - | - | - | S. | VF | 1 | - | - | - | - | -
|
1 | |||
Olympic games
|
not carried out |
2
|
not carried out | -
|
not carried out | -
|
not carried out
|
0 | ||||||||
Fed Cup
|
- | - | K1 | PO | PO | F. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -
|
0 |
Tournament participation
|
1 | 5 | 13 | 19th | 17th | 18th | 20th | 20th | 18th | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20th | 14th
|
178 |
Finals reached
|
1 | 0 | 2 | 6th | 13 | 8th | 13 | 12 | 6th | 4th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th | 2
|
71 |
Title won
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 7th | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1
|
45 |
Hard court wins / defeats
|
0-0 | 5: 2 | 11: 6 | 20: 5 | 38: 1 | 34: 8 | 41: 7 | 43: 6 | 39: 7 | 28: 8 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0: 1 | 28:14 | 17:11
|
304: 76 |
Sand victories / defeats
|
0-0 | 0-0 | 7: 3 | 10: 5 | 11: 1 | 18: 2 | 19: 2 | 12: 2 | 17: 5 | 2: 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 14: 3 | 1: 1
|
111: 25 |
Turf wins / defeats
|
0-0 | 0-0 | 0: 1 | 3: 1 | 7-0 | 5: 1 | 0: 1 | 7: 1 | 0: 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2: 1 | 2: 1
|
26: 8 |
Carpet victories / defeats
|
5-0 | 4: 3 | 4: 3 | 18: 5 | 19: 3 | 10: 2 | 11: 3 | 15: 1 | 4: 2 | 4: 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 9: 1 | 4-0
|
107: 24 |
Overall wins / losses
|
5-0 | 9: 5 | 22:13 | 51:16 | 75: 5 | 67:13 | 71:13 | 77:10 | 60:15 | 34:10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0: 1 | 53:19 | 24:13
|
548: 133 |
World ranking points
|
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -
|
N / A |
Year-end position
|
- | 87 | 16 | 6th | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 10 | - | - | - | 7th | 10
|
N / A |
Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.
Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as stated on the WTA page. Only Category I WTA tournaments are shown .
Double
competition | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003-2006 | 2007 | 2008–2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Balance sheet | Career | title |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Open | 1 | 1 | S. | S. | S. | F. | HF | S. | - | 2 | - | - | - | AF | S. | 2 | 43: 7 | S. | 5 |
French Open | - | VF | HF | S. | F. | S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | VF | AF | HF | 33: 6 | S. | 2 |
Wimbledon | 2 | S. | VF | S. | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | S. | VF | VF | 29: 6 | S. | 3 |
US Open | AF | HF | HF | S. | - | AF | VF | VF | - | AF | - | 1 | F. | S. | HF | S. | 47:10 | S. | 3 |
Mixed
competition | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001-2005 | 2006 | 2007–2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Career |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Open | - | - | - | - | - | - | S. | - | - | - | S. | VF | VF | S. |
French Open | VF | - | - | - | - | - | AF | - | - | - | AF | S. | 1 | S. |
Wimbledon | 2 | VF | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | VF | S. | AF | S. | S. |
US Open | HF | - | - | - | VF | - | - | - | 1 | - | S. | AF | S. | S. |
Web links
- WTA profile of Martina Hingis (English)
- ITF profile of Martina Hingis (English)
- Fed Cup stats by Martina Hingis (English)
- Literature by and about Martina Hingis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Martina Hingis in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serena & Hingis: The Only Two To Do This (wtatennis.com, December 10, 2015, accessed January 1, 2016)
- ↑ 40 LOVE Moments: The Youngest No.1 ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , WTAtennis.com from April 5, 2013
- ↑ Next title for Hingis - What Martina's victory has to do with Anna Kournikowa in Blick.ch on January 15, 2016
- ↑ a b Cover story Weltwoche 50/2017: Woman of the Year, "Everyone is after you" , with an interview, pages 20-25
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 , pp. 862-863.
- ^ Riot Girls , Chris Smith, New York Magazine
- ↑ Steffi Graf against Martina Hingis. In: tennisnet.com. May 19, 2011, accessed June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ From child prodigy to grande dame. In: swisstennis.ch. October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
- ↑ In the pale light of suspected doping , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 10, 2007
- ↑ Hingis wants to fight after all , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 7, 2007
- ↑ Hingis banned for two years due to doping , Welt.ch of January 4, 2008
- ↑ After almost 16 years of interruption - Hingis is number one in the world again! in Blick.ch from January 16, 2016
- ↑ Hingis, Chan capture third straight title at Wuhan (wtatennis.com, September 30, 2017, accessed October 1, 2017)
- ↑ Hingis ends her career after the WTA final in Singapore. In: spox.com. October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Hingis missed titles at the end of her career. Spiegel Online, October 28, 2017, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i No.1 Spotlight: Martina Hingis ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , WTAtennis.com from May 20, 2013
- ↑ Hingis receives the Meredith Inspiration Award , Womenstennisblog.com on April 17, 2007
- ^ Hingis elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame , ITF.com, March 4, 2013
- ↑ Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan's dominant season has earned them the title of 2017 Doubles Team of the Year. In: wtatennis.com. October 20, 2017, accessed October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Separation after the marriage proposal? , Schweizer Illustrierte , April 13, 2010, accessed on July 13, 2015.
- ↑ Martina Hingis said "Yes, I do!" , Blick.ch , December 11, 2010, accessed on July 13, 2015.
- ↑ Police move out to family quarrel in Feusisberg: Again allegations against Martina Hingis. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 25, 2013.
- ↑ Martina Hingis secretly married in Zug. St. Galler Tagblatt , July 20, 2018.
- ^ Hingis announces the birth of baby Lia . March 9, 2019.
- ↑ Martina Hingis fit again after giving birth! . 18th March 2019.
- ↑ Stephanie Hess: "If there's one thing I've never been, then it's boring." Portrait in: annabelle from August 15, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hingis, Martina |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hingisová, Martina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Košice , Czechoslovakia |