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Martina Hingis (born September 30, 1980 in
Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 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 young 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. 7 in the world rankings, won two titles
(at the Tier I tournament in Rome and the Tier III tournament in Kolkata,
India), was the runner-up in two tournaments (Tier I tournaments in
Tokyo and Montreal), and qualified for the 2006 WTA Tour Championships
in Madrid.
She is engaged to fellow tennis player
Radek Štěpánek[1][2]. She has always been coached by former Czech
professional and mother, Melanie Molitor.
****
Country Switzerland
Residence Trubbach, Switzerland,
Wesley Chapel,
Florida, USA
Date of birth September 30, 1980 (age 26)
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 $19,518,882 (4th in
all-time rankings)
Singles
Career record: 528-121
Career titles: 42 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: 36 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking: No. 1 (June 8, 1998)
****
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 - Molitorová) 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
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.
In January 1997, Hingis became the youngest
Grand Slam singles winner in the 20th century by winning the Australian
Open at age 16 years and 3 months. In March, she became the youngest
ever player to attain the World No. 1 ranking. And in July, she became
the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon since Lottie Dod in 1887. She
won the U.S. Open title over another up-and-coming player, Venus
Williams, in the final. The only Grand Slam singles title she failed to
win that year 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 Jana 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 finals of the WTA Tour Championships, but lost 6-4, 6-2
to Davenport.
In 2000, Hingis and Mary 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 Tanasurgan, 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 (third most following
Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova). In 2005, TENNIS Magazine put her
in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.
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.
Return to the game
2005
Hingis 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 Ivanovic 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 is currently 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 Jankovic in three sets.
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."
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 color, things happen.'" In the U.S., this
comment garnered considerable attention, although elsewhere her comment
was mostly greeted with indifference.
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."
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.)
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."
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 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 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
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 Medibank International tournament in Sydney,
Australia, which ended on January 13, 2007.
Tournament 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Career SR Career Win-Loss
Australian Open A 2R QF W W W F F F A A A
QF 3 / 9 48-6
French Open A 3R 3R F SF F SF SF A A A A
QF 0 / 8 35-8
Wimbledon A 1R 4R W SF 1R QF 1R A A A A 3R
1 / 8 21-7
US Open A 4R SF W F F SF SF 4R A A A 2R 1
/ 9 41-8
Grand Slam SR 0 / 0 0 / 4 0 / 4 3 / 4 1 / 4
1 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 4 0 / 2 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 4 0 / 0 5 / 34 N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss 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 0-0 N/A 145-29
WTA Tour Championships A A F QF W F W A A A
A A RR 2 / 6 16-5
Tokyo A A SF W F W W F W A A A F 4 / 8
28-4
Indian Wells A A A A W QF F SF F A A A SF
1 / 6 25-5
Miami A A 2R W SF SF W SF QF A A A 3R 2 /
8 28-6
Charleston A A 2R W A W A F A A A A A 2 /
4 15-2
Berlin A 2R 2R A QF W SF SF A A A A QF 1 /
7 18-6
Rome A A F A W SF A SF A A A A W 2 / 5
21-3
San Diego1 A A A W SF W QF SF A A A A QF 2
/ 6 16-4
Montreal/Toronto A 3R A A SF W W A QF A A A
F 2 / 6 21-4
Moscow A A A A A A W QF 1R A A A A 1 / 3
5-2
Zurich 2R 2R F QF A F W A A A A A QF 1 / 7
16-6
Tournaments played 4 13 18 17 18 20 20 18
12 0 0 1 20 2 N/A 163
Finals reached 0 1 5 13 7 13 13 6 4 0 0 0 4
1 N/A 67
Tournaments Won 0 0 2 12 5 7 9 3 2 0 0 0 2
0 N/A 42
Hardcourt Win-Loss 2-1 7-5 15-5 38-1 32-8
41-7 43-6 39-7 28-8 0-0 0-0 0-1 28-12 4-2 N/A 277-63
Clay Win-Loss 0-0 7-3 10-5 11-1 16-2 19-2
12-2 17-5 2-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 14-3 0-0 N/A 108-24
Grass Win-Loss 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 0-0 N/A 24-7
Carpet Win-Loss 3-2 4-3 18-5 15-3 8-2 11-3
15-1 4-2 4-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 9-3 0-0 N/A 91-25
Overall Win-Loss 5-3 18-12 46-16 71-5 61-13
71-13 77-10 60-15 34-10 0-0 0-0 0-1 53-19 4-2 N/A 500-1192
Year End Ranking 87 16 4 1 2 1 1 4 10 - - -
7 N/A N/A
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 528-122.
WTA Tour singles titles (42), ITF Circuit
singles titles (2)
Legend (Singles)
Tier I (16)
Tier II (15)
Tier III (4)
Tier IV (0)
Grand Slam Title (5)
WTA Tour Championship (2)
ITF Circuit (2)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the
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 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 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 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 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 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
Doubles (37)
Legend (Doubles)
Tier I (13)
Tier II (12)
Tier III (0)
Tier IV (0)
Grand Slam Title (9)
WTA Tour Championship (2)
ITF Circuit (1)
No. Date Tournament Surface Partner
Opponents in the final Score
1. March 5, 1995 Prostejov, Czech Republic
Hard Indoors Petra Langrova Eva Melicharova Kathar Teodorowicz 7-6,
6-2
2. May 7, 1995 Hamburg, Germany Clay Gigi
Fernandez Conchita Martinez Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 6-3
3. July 7, 1996 Wimbledon, United Kingdom
Grass Helena Sukova Meredith McGrath Larisa Neiland 5-7, 7-5, 6-1
4. October 20, 1996 Zurich, Switzerland
Carpet Helena Sukova Nicole Arendt Natasha Zvereva 7-5, 6-4
5. January 26, 1997 Australian Open,
Melbourne, Australia Hard Natasha Zvereva Lindsay Davenport Lisa
Raymond 6-2, 6-2
6. February 16, 1997 Paris, France Carpet
Helena Sukova Alexandra Fusai Rita Grande 6-3, 6-0
7. April 6, 1997 Hilton Head, USA Green
Clay Mary Joe Fernandez Lindsay Davenport Jana Novotna 7-5, 4-6, 6-1
8. July 27, 1997 Stanford, USA Hard
Lindsay Davenport Conchita Martinez 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 Jana Novotna Yayuk Basuki Helena Sukova 6-2, 6-2
11. October 12, 1997 Filderstadt, Germany
Hard Indoors Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Lindsay Davenport Jana Novotna
7-6, 3-6, 7-6
12. October 19, 1997 Zurich, Switzerland
Carpet Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Larisa Neiland Helena Sukova 4-6, 6-4,
6-1
13. January 18, 1998 Sydney, Australia
Hard Helena Sukova Katrina Adams Meredith McGrath 6-1, 6-2
14. February 1, 1998 Australian Open,
Melbourne, Australia Hard Mirjana Lucic Lindsay Davenport Natasha
Zvereva 6-4, 2-6, 6-3
15. February 8, 1998 Tokyo, Japan Carpet
Mirjana Lucic Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva 7-5, 6-4
16. March 29, 1998 Miami, USA Hard Jana
Novotna Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario Natasha Zvereva 6-2, 3-6, 6-3
17. June 7 1998 French Open, Paris, France
Red Clay Jana Novotna Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva 6-1, 7-6
18. July 5 1998 Wimbledon, United Kingdom
Grass Jana Novotna Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva 6-3, 3-6, 8-6
19. August 16, 1998 Los Angeles, USA Hard
Helena Sukova Tamarine Tanasugarn Elena Tatarkova 6-4, 6-2
20. August 23, 1998 Montreal, Canada Hard
Jana Novotna Yayuk Basuki Caroline Vis 6-3, 6-4
21. September 13, 1998 U.S. Open, New York
City, USA Hard Jana Novotna Lindsay Davenport Natasha Zvereva 6-3,
6-3
22. January 31, 1999 Australian Open,
Melbourne, Australia Hard Anna Kournikova Lindsay Davenport Natasha
Zvereva 7-5, 6-3
23. March 14, 1999 Indian Wells, USA Hard
Anna Kournikova Mary Joe Fernandez Jana Novotna 6-2, 6-2
24. March 28, 1999 Miami, USA Hard 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 Jana Novotna Natasha Zvereva 6-4,
retired
27. November 21, 1999 New York City, USA
Carpet Anna Kournikova Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 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 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 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 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 Daniela Hantuchova Arantxa
Sanchez-Vicario 6-2, 6-7, 6-1
37. May 5, 2002 Hamburg, Germany Red Clay
Barbara Schett Daniela Hantuchova Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 6-1, 6-1
Mixed Doubles
2006 Australian Open (w/ Mahesh Bhupati)
Team Competition
2001 Hopman Cup (w/ Roger Federer)
WTA Tour career earnings
Year Majors WTA wins Total wins Earnings
($) Money list rank
1995 0 0 0 186,567 32
1996 0 2 2 1,330,996 4
1997 3 9 12 3,400,196 1
1998 1 4 5 2,760,960 1
1999 1 6 7 2,936,425 1
2000 0 9 9 3,457,049 1
2001 0 3 3 1,765,116 5
2002 0 2 2 1,467,584 5
2003 DNP
2004 DNP
2005 0 0 0
2006 0 2 2 1,159,537 8
Career 5 37 42 19,505,362 4
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' 37-match winning streak and prevented
her from achieving a calendar year Grand Slam. This was Hingis' 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' 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.
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. Hingis went on to claim the first title in her comeback.
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
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