Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis

Image:Martina Hingis Indian Wells 2006 1.jpg
Nickname	Swiss Miss
Country	Switzerland
Residence	Trübbach, Switzerland, Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA
Date of birth	September 30 1980 (age 28)
Place of birth	Košice, Slovakia
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Turned Pro	1994
Retired	2002; Comeback in 2006
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money	$20,033,600 (4th in all-time rankings)
Singles
Career record:	536-123
Career titles:	43 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (March 31, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	W (1997, 1998, 1999)
French Open	F (1997, 1999)
Wimbledon	W (1997)
U.S. Open	W (1997)
Doubles
Career record:	275-50
Career titles:	37 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (June 8, 1998)
Infobox last updated on: March 3, 2007.

Martina Hingis (pronounced: hing-GISS) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former world number one Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss," she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. She set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both of her ankles forced her to withdraw from professional tennis at the relatively early age of 22.

On November 29, 2005, after several surgeries and long recuperations, the 25-year-old Hingis announced that she would return to the WTA tour, starting her professional comeback at a low-key tournament in Gold Coast, Australia in January 2006. Since then, Hingis has climbed to No. 6 in the world rankings, won three titles (at the Tier I tournament in Rome, the Tier III tournament in Kolkata, India, and the Tier I tournament in Tokyo), was the runner-up in three tournaments (Tier I tournaments in Tokyo and Montreal and the Tier III in Gold Coast), and qualified for the 2006 WTA Tour Championships in Madrid.

She is currently engaged to fellow tennis player Radek Štěpánek.^{[1] [2]} She has always been coached by former Czech professional and mother, Melanie Molitor.

Childhood and early career

Hingis was born to two accomplished tennis players: a Czech mother, Melanie Molitorová, and a Slovak father, Karol Hingis. Molitorová once ranked No. 10 among women in Czechoslovakia. Her father is a tennis trainer in Košice. They named their daughter 'Martina' (originally Martina Hingisová) after Martina Navrátilová. Hingis' parents divorced when she was a young girl. She moved with her mother to Moravia for a short period, then to Switzerland.

Hingis began hitting tennis balls 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 was ranked the World No. 1 junior player.

She made her professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. In 1995, she became the youngest player to win a match at a Grand Slam tournament when she advanced to the second round of the Australian Open.

Hingis was twice rated among FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women, and her championship doubles partnership with tennis' glamour girl Anna Kournikova (two Grand Slam championships) in the late 1990s and early-2000s attracted a great deal of attention. Jestingly, they announced that they were "The Spice Girls of Tennis."

Grand Slam success and period of dominance

In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Wimbledon champion when she teamed with Helena Suková to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months. 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 U.S. Open. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica Seles 6-2, 6-0 in the final at Oakland. Hingis then lost to Graf 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 at the year-end WTA Tour Championships.

Hingis's best year was 1997 when she was the undisputed world No. 1 women's tennis player. She started the year by winning the 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 U.S. 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.

In 1998, Hingis won all four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles (the Australian Open with Mirjana Lucic and the other three events with Novotná), and she became only the third woman to simultaneously hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. 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 U.S. 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 saw Hingis win her third successive Australian Open singles crown as well as the doubles title (with teammate Anna Kournikova). She then reached the French Open final and was three points away from victory in the second set against Steffi Graf, but ended up losing 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. During the match, Hingis had infuriated an already partisan crowd (the reason had been Hingis statements before the match - see under Controversy) by arguing with the umpire over several line calls (crossing the net in one instance), taking a bathroom break early in the final set, and twice delivering a rare underhand serve on match point. In tears after the match, Hingis was comforted by her mother as she returned to the court for the trophy ceremony. After a shock first-round 6-2, 6-0 loss to Jelena Dokic at Wimbledon, Hingis bounced back to reach her third consecutive U.S. Open final, where she lost to 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 Davenport 6-4, 6-2.

In 2000, Hingis and Pierce were runners-up in the Australian Open women's doubles tournament.

Injuries and hiatus from tennis

Hingis' three-year hold on the Australian Open singles title came to an end in 2000 when she lost in the final to Lindsay Davenport 6-1, 7-5. Although she did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament that year, she kept the year end No. 1 ranking because of nine tournament championships, including the WTA Tour Championships where she won both in singles and doubles.

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

Hingis reached her fifth consecutive Australian Open final in 2001, where she lost to Jennifer Capriati 6-4, 6-3. She briefly ended her coaching relationships with her mother Melanie early in the year but had a change of heart two months later just before the French Open. Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle in October 2001.

Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002 (again teaming with 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 4-6, 7-6, 6-2. 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.

In 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis. In several interviews, she indicated she was attending an advanced English course at AKAD in Zürich to broaden her career opportunities.

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 (fourth most following Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Chris Evert). In 2005, TENNIS Magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.

Return to the game

2005

In February 2005, Hingis made an unsuccessful return to competition at an event in Pattaya, Thailand, where she lost to Germany's Marlene Weingartner 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 Navrátilová in singles on July 7th. With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on November 29 her return to the WTA Tour in 2006.

2006

Her Grand Slam comeback debut was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she reached the quarterfinals before losing to Kim Clijsters, the second seed. 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).

On May 19, 2006, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals of the Tier I Italian Open in Rome, beating top 20 player Flavia Pennetta, and two days later won the tournament. This was her 41st WTA tour singles title and first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals at the French Open, losing to Clijsters, and the third round at Wimbledon, losing to Ai Sugiyama. Her U.S. Open return was short lived, losing in the second round 6-2, 6-4 to Virginie Razzano, who was ranked outside the top 100.

In her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian Olga Poutchkova 6-0, 6-4 in the final after defeating Sania Mirza 6-1, 6-0 in a semifinal. The following week in Seoul, Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the second round to Mirza 4-6, 6-0, 6-4.

During her 8 months back on the WTA tour, Hingis has reached three Tier I finals - the first in Tokyo (falling to Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-0, after defeating Maria Sharapova in a semifinal), then in Rome (winning the title over Dinara Safina 6-2, 7-5), and in Montreal (falling to Ana Ivanović 6-2, 6-3). She has beaten several top players in her comeback, including Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport, Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and Venus Williams.

Hingis qualified for the end of year WTA Tour Championships in Madrid as the eighth seed. In her three round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine Henin-Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Hingis ended the year ranked No. 7 in the WTA rankings, which is based on the previous 52 weeks of results. In the 2006 Race to the Sony Ericsson Championships rankings, she also finished No. 7. She finished 8th in prize money earnings during 2006 (U.S. $1,159,537).

2007

Hingis started 2007 by reaching the final of a Tier III event, the Australian Hardcourt Championships in Gold Coast, Australia, losing to Dinara Safina of Russia 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. The next week at the Medibank International in Sydney, Hingis lost her first round match to Jelena Janković in three sets.

At the 2007 Australian Open, Hingis won her first three rounds without losing a set before defeating China's Na Li in the fourth round 4-6, 6-3, 6-0. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to Kim Clijsters 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. This was the second consecutive year that Hingis had lost to Clijsters in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open 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, Japan, defeating Ana Ivanović in the final 6-4, 6-2. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event.^[3]

Three weeks later, Hingis lost for the second time this year to Janković in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open. At the Qatar Total Open in Doha, Hingis lost to Daniela Hantuchova 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals after being up a set and 4-1 (40-0) in the second set. In women's doubles, Hingis teamed with Maria Kirilenko to win the title, defeating Agnes Szavay and Vladimira Uhlirova in the final 6-1, 6-1.

At the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, which was the second Tier I tournament of the year, Hingis again lost to Hantuchova, this time in the fourth round 6-4, 6-3. Hingis was up a service break in both sets but, as in Doha, could not hold her lead.

At the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Hingis again failed to reach the quarterfinals, losing in the third round to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Controversies

Hingis is also well known for usually being outspoken and "sharp tongued." During her career, Hingis has made a number of statements about her fellow players that have subsequently become the focus of attention and the source of controversy.

• Referring obliquely to Amélie Mauresmo's lesbianism on the eve of their 1999 Australian Open final, Hingis told reporters, "She's here with her girlfriend. She's half a man already."^{[citation needed]}

• When asked in the late 1990s how she felt about the budding rivalry between herself and the then-up-and-coming Anna Kournikova, Hingis responded, "What rivalry? I win all the matches." ^[4]

• After the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena) had complained of discrimination against them, Hingis told Time Magazine in 2001: "Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this colour, things happen.'" In the U.S., this comment garnered considerable attention, although elsewhere her comment was mostly greeted with indifference.^{[citation needed]}

• At the peak of the Williams sisters and Hingis' competitive and fierce rivalry, Hingis stated in a press conference during the 1999 U.S. Open referring to the sisters' remarks, "They always have big mouths. They always talk a lot. It's happened before, so it's gonna happen again. I don't really worry about that."^{[citation needed]}

• On the long-dominant German player, Steffi Graf, Hingis said, "Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played. She is old now. Her time has passed." (Hingis made this comment in 1998 while Graf was on an injury-related hiatus from tennis. She defeated Hingis in the finals of the French Open the following year.)^{[citation needed]}

• Responding in a 1999 press conference on why she terminated her doubles partnership with former Wimbledon champ Jana Novotna, Hingis remarked, "She's old and slow."^{[citation needed]}

• During her acceptance speech at the 1997 Australian Open women's singles final, the winner, Hingis, referred to her win in doubles the previous day and said, "I always love to come here to Australia and it's a great win for me and I will like to come back and win another title. Yesterday, I already won in my doubles so, next time I'll have to play mixed doubles so, maybe I'm going to win that too. But I also need to give someone else a chance to win an event."

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1997	Australian Open	Mary Pierce	6-2, 6-2
1997	Wimbledon	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotná	2-6, 6-3, 6-3
1997	U.S. Open	Venus Williams	6-0, 6-4
1998	Australian Open (2)	Conchita Martínez	6-3, 6-3
1999	Australian Open (3)	Amélie Mauresmo	6-2, 6-3

Runner-ups (7)

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1997	French Open	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Iva Majoli	6-4, 6-2
1998	U.S. Open	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 7-5
1999	French Open (2)	Steffi Graf	4-6, 7-5, 6-2
1999	U.S. Open (2)	Serena Williams	6-3, 7-6
2000	Australian Open	Lindsay Davenport	6-1, 7-5
2001	Australian Open (2)	Jennifer Capriati	6-4, 6-3
2002	Australian Open (3)	Jennifer Capriati	4-6, 7-6, 6-2

WTA Tour and ITF Circuit singles titles

#	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score
1.	1993-10-24	Langenthal, Switzerland	Carpet	Sophie Georges	2-6, 7-5, 7-6(4)
2.	1996-03-10	Prostejov, Czech Republic	Hard Indoors	Image:Flag of Austria.svg Barbara Paulus	6-1, 6-4
3.	1996-10-13	Filderstadt, Germany	Carpet	Anke Huber	6-2, 3-6, 6-3
4.	1996-11-10	Oakland, USA	Carpet	Monica Seles	6-2, 6-0
5.	1997-01-12	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Jennifer Capriati	6-1, 5-7, 6-1
6.	1997-01-26	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Mary Pierce	6-2, 6-2
7.	1997-02-02	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	Carpet	Steffi Graf	Walkover
8.	1997-02-16	Paris, France	Carpet	Anke Huber	6-3, 3-6, 6-3
9.	1997-03-30	Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Monica Seles	6-2, 6-1
10.	1997-04-06	Hilton Head Island, USA	Clay	Monica Seles	3-6, 6-3, 7-6(5)
11.	1997-07-06	Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grass	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotná	2-6, 6-3, 6-3
12.	1997-07-27	Stanford, USA	Hard	Conchita Martínez	6-0, 6-2
13.	1997-08-03	San Diego, USA	Hard	Monica Seles	7-6(4), 6-4
14.	1997-09-07	US Open, New York, USA	Hard	Venus Williams	6-0, 6-4
15.	1997-10-12	Filderstadt, Germany	Carpet	Lisa Raymond	6-2, 6-4
16.	1997-11-16	Philadelphia, USA	Carpet	Lindsay Davenport	7-5, 6-7(7), 7-6(4)
17.	1998-02-01	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Conchita Martínez	6-3, 6-3
18.	1998-03-15	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 6-4
19.	1998-05-04	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotná	6-3, 7-5
20.	1998-05-17	Rome, Italy	Clay	Venus Williams	6-3, 2-6, 6-3
21.	1998-11-22	WTA Tour Championships, New York, USA	Carpet	Lindsay Davenport	7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2
22.	1999-01-31	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Amélie Mauresmo	6-2, 6-3
23.	1999-02-07	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	Carpet	Image:Flag of South Africa.svg Amanda Coetzer	6-2, 6-1
24.	1999-04-04	Hilton Head Island, USA	Clay	Anna Kournikova	6-4, 6-3
25.	1999-05-16	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Julie Halard-Decugis	6-0, 6-1
26.	1999-08-08	San Diego, USA	Hard	Venus Williams	6-4, 6-0
27.	1999-08-22	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Monica Seles	6-4, 6-4
28.	1999-10-10	Filderstadt, Germany	Carpet	Mary Pierce	6-4, 6-1
29.	2000-02-06	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	Carpet	Sandrine Testud	6-3, 7-5
30.	2000-04-02	Key Biscayne, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 6-2
31.	2000-05-07	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3, 6-3
32.	2000-06-25	's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands	Grass	Image:Flag of Romania.svg Ruxandra Dragomir	6-2, 3-0 retired
33.	2000-08-20	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Serena Williams	0-6, 6-3, 3-0 retired
34.	2000-10-08	Filderstadt, Germany	Carpet	Kim Clijsters	6-0, 6-3
35.	2000-10-15	Zurich, Switzerland	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-4, 4-6, 7-5
36.	2000-10-29	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	6-3, 6-1
37.	2000-11-19	WTA Tour Championships, New York, USA	Carpet	Monica Seles	6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4
38.	2001-01-08	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	6-3, 4-6, 7-5
39.	2001-02-18	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Sandrine Testud	6-3, 6-2
40.	2001-02-25	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Nathalie Tauziat	6-4, 6-4
41.	2002-01-13	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Meghann Shaughnessy	6-2, 6-3
42.	2002-02-03	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	Carpet	Monica Seles	7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3
43.	2006-05-21	Rome, Italy	Clay	Dinara Safina	6-2, 7-5
44.	2006-09-24	Kolkata, India	Carpet	Olga Poutchkova	6-0, 6-4
45.	2007-02-04	Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan	Carpet	Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Ana Ivanović	6-4, 6-2

WTA Tour and ITF Circuit doubles titles

#	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score
1.	March 5, 1995	Prostejov, Czech Republic	Hard Indoors	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Petra Langrova	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Eva Melicharova Kathar Teodorowicz	7-6, 6-2
2.	May 7, 1995	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Gigi Fernandez	Conchita Martinez Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Patricia Tarabini	6-2, 6-3
3.	July 7, 1996	Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grass	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	Meredith McGrath Image:Flag of Latvia.svg Larisa Neiland	5-7, 7-5, 6-1
4.	October 20, 1996	Zurich, Switzerland	Carpet	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	Nicole Arendt Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	7-5, 6-4
5.	January 26, 1997	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	6-2, 6-2
6.	February 16, 1997	Paris, France	Carpet	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande	6-3, 6-0
7.	April 6, 1997	Hilton Head, USA	Green Clay	Mary Joe Fernandez	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	7-5, 4-6, 6-1
8.	July 27, 1997	Stanford, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	Conchita Martinez Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Patricia Tarabini	6-1, 6-3
9.	August 3, 1997	San Diego, USA	Hard	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	Amy Frazier Kimberly Po	6-3, 7-5
10.	September 28, 1997	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Image:Flag of Indonesia (bordered).svg Yayuk Basuki Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	6-2, 6-2
11.	October 12, 1997	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard Indoors	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	7-6, 3-6, 7-6
12.	October 19, 1997	Zurich, Switzerland	Carpet	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	Image:Flag of Latvia.svg Larisa Neiland Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	4-6, 6-4, 6-1
13.	January 18, 1998	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	Katrina Adams Meredith McGrath	6-1, 6-2
14.	February 1, 1998	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Mirjana Lucic	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-4, 2-6, 6-3
15.	February 8, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Mirjana Lucic	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	7-5, 6-4
16.	March 29, 1998	Miami, USA	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-2, 3-6, 6-3
17.	June 7, 1998	French Open, Paris, France	Red Clay	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-1, 7-6
18.	July 5 1998	Wimbledon, United Kingdom	Grass	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-3, 3-6, 8-6
19.	August 16, 1998	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Helena Sukova	Tamarine Tanasugarn Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Elena Tatarkova	6-4, 6-2
20.	August 23, 1998	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Image:Flag of Indonesia (bordered).svg Yayuk Basuki Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Caroline Vis	6-3, 6-4
21.	September 13, 1998	U.S. Open, New York City, USA	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-3, 6-3
22.	January 31, 1999	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Lindsay Davenport Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	7-5, 6-3
23.	March 14, 1999	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Mary Joe Fernandez Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	6-2, 6-2
24.	March 28, 1999	Miami, USA	Hard	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna	Mary Joe Fernandez Monica Seles	6-0, 4-6, 7-6
25.	May 9, 1999	Rome, Italy	Red Clay	Anna Kournikova	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	6-2, 6-2
26.	June 20, 1999	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Anna Kournikova	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Jana Novotna Image:Flag of Belarus.svg Natasha Zvereva	6-4, retired
27.	November 21, 1999	New York City, USA	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Image:Flag of Latvia.svg Larisa Neiland	6-4, 6-4
28.	February 6, 2000	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet	Mary Pierce	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	6-4, 6-1
29.	June 11 2000	French Open, Paris, France	Red Clay	Mary Pierce	Virginia Ruano Pascual Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Paola Suarez	6-2, 6-4
30.	August 20, 2000	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Nathalie Tauziat	Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama	6-3, 3-6, 6-4
31.	October 8, 2000	Filderstadt, Germany	Hard Indoors	Anna Kournikova	Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Image:Flag of Austria.svg Barbara Schett	6-4, 6-2
32.	October 15, 2000	Zurich, Switzerland	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	Kimberly Po Anne-Gaëlle Sidot	6-3, 6-4
33.	November 12, 2000	Philadelphia, USA	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	Lisa Raymond Rennae Stubbs	6-2, 7-5
34.	November 19, 2000	New York City, USA	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	Nicole Arendt Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Manon Bollegraf	6-2, 6-3
35.	October 7, 2001	Moscow, Russia	Carpet	Anna Kournikova	Elena Dementieva Lina Krasnoroutskaya	7-6, 6-3
36.	January 27, 2002	Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Image:Flag of Slovakia (bordered).svg Daniela Hantuchova Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	6-2, 6-7, 6-1
37.	May 5, 2002	Hamburg, Germany	Red Clay	Image:Flag of Austria.svg Barbara Schett	Image:Flag of Slovakia (bordered).svg Daniela Hantuchova Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario	6-1, 6-1
38.	March 3, 2007	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Maria Kirilenko	Image:Flag of Hungary.svg Agnes Szavay Image:Flag of the Czech Republic (bordered).svg Vladimira Uhlirova	6-1, 6-1

Singles runner-ups (26)

Doubles runner-ups (14)

Mixed doubles title

• 2006 Australian Open (with Mahesh Bhupathi)

Team competition

• 2001 Hopman Cup (with Roger Federer)

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, which ended on April 1, 2007.

A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

¹ The San Diego tournament achieved Tier I status only in 2004.

² If ITF women's circuit (Hardcourt: 12-2; Carpet: 6-1) and Fed Cup (10-0) participations are included, overall win-loss record stands at 541-127.

WTA Tour career earnings

Awards and Accolades

Notable matches

• 1996 Italian Open quarterfinal: defeated Steffi Graf, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.
• 1996 Chase Championships final: lost to Graf, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 in the only women's tournament that featured a best-of-five set final. Entering the tournament with a world ranking of seventh, Hingis ended the year as world number four.
• 1997 French Open final: lost to Iva Majoli 6-4, 6-2. Majoli snapped Hingis's 37-match winning streak and prevented her from achieving a calendar year Grand Slam. This was Hingis's first loss in 1997.
• 1997 U.S. Open final: defeated Venus Williams 6-0, 6-4. The 16-year-old Hingis faced the unseeded 17-year-old Williams. The match reflected the changing of the guard in women's tennis, ushering in the new generation of power baseliners as well as the budding rivalry between Hingis and the Williams sisters.
• 1997 Philadelphia final: defeated Lindsay Davenport 7-5, 6-7(7), 7-6(4). After winning three straight three-set matches to reach the final, the top-seeded Hingis held off third-ranked Davenport.
• 1998 Chase Championships final: defeated Davenport 7-5, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Hingis and Davenport dominated the 1998 season, winning four and six titles, respectively, coming into the tournament. Hingis won her fifth title, although she had to settle for the number two spot as Davenport finished the year as the best women's tennis player.
• 1999 French Open final: lost to Graf, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. Graf won the title in her last appearance at the French Open, defeating the top three players in the world.
• 1999 Wimbledon first round: lost to Jelena Dokic 6-2, 6-0. Billed as one of the greatest upsets in Wimbledon's 113-year history, Hingis was beaten by a qualifier in the opening round. This was only the third time in the tournament's history that the top seeded woman lost in the first round. The loss ended Hingis's streak of making at least the semifinals in 11 consecutive Grand Slam singles tournaments. Two years later, as the top seed, she also was defeated in the opening round, this time by 83rd-ranked Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-4, 6-2.
• 1999 Grand Slam Cup semifinal: lost to Venus Williams 6-2, 6-7(6), 9-7. The fourth-seeded Williams beat the top-seeded Hingis. Williams blasted 18 aces, Hingis none.
• 2000 Australian Open final: lost to Davenport 6-1, 7-5.
• 2001 Australian Open quarterfinal: defeated Serena Williams 6-2, 3-6, 8-6. She went on to defeat older sister Venus in a semifinal, handing Venus her career-worst defeat, 6-1, 6-1. In doing so, she became the first player to beat both of the Williams sisters in a single Grand Slam tournament. Hingis was defeated in the final by Jennifer Capriati 6-4, 6-3.
• 2002 Australian Open final: lost to Capriati 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-2. In her sixth straight Australian Open final, Hingis once again faced Capriati. Although Hingis led 4-0 in the second set and held four match points, she failed to close out the match. The on court temperature hovered in the mid-30s to high-40s (Celsius). As both struggled with the heat, the players were given a 10-minute heat break at the end of the second set, when they immediately walked into the locker room to lie on tables and pack their limbs with ice.
• 2002 U.S. Open fourth round: lost to Monica Seles 6-4, 6-2. This was the last Grand Slam match that Hingis played prior to her comeback in 2006.
• 2006 Australian Open quarterfinal: lost to Kim Clijsters 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. In just her third tournament and her first major tournament since her comeback started, Hingis reached the quarterfinals. She became the first wildcard and lowest-ranked woman to reach that round in 25 years.
• 2006 Tokyo (Pan Pacific) semifinal: defeated Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-1. Hingis defeated a top five player for the first time in her comeback.
• 2006 Indian Wells fourth round: defeated Davenport 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Renewing a rivalry that had been shelved since 2001, Hingis notched her second top five win. This was their earliest meeting in a tournament since their first one in 1995.
• 2006 Italian Open semifinal: defeated Venus Williams, 0-6, 6-3, 6-3. Hingis notched her 500th career win by beating an old rival.
• 2007 Tokyo (Pan Pacific) final: defeated Ana Ivanović 6-4, 6-2, winning her record fifth singles title at this tournament.

References

1. ^ http://www.tennisidols.com/hingis-confirms-her-engagement-to-stepanek
2. ^ http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_ylt=AuJg5RNGoGTw9D3WN6Y6o5w4v7YF?slug=ap-hingisengaged&prov=ap&type=lgns
3. ^ http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slug=ap-tokyo&prov=ap&type=lgns
4. ^ http://www.askmen.com/women/models_100/141c_martina_hingis.html

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