Profile
Martina Hingis
Tennis Player
Female
Born
Sep 30, 1980
Age
32
Hometown
Czechoslovakia
Turned Pro
1994
Martina Hingis is a former Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles… Read More
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Romance
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Thibault HutinMarried 2010
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Andreas BieriDated 2010
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Alexander OnischenkoDated 2007
News + Updates
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Martina Hingis To Join Washington Kastles Of World Team Tennis After Hall Of Fame InductionFox News - Mar 12, 2013
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Martina Hingis Tops List Of 2013 Hall Of Fame ClassCalgary Sun - Mar 04, 2013
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Hingis, Stich, Sukova Nominated For Tennis HallFox News - Sep 06, 2012
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Sergio Garcia Plays Tennis With Daniela Hantuchova At U.S. OpenGolf.com - Aug 28, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1980
Birth
Born on September 30, 1980.
TEENAGE
1993
12 Years Old
Hingis began playing tennis when she was two years old and entered her first tournament at age four. In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open.
In 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open.
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Her father, who continued to live in Košice as a tennis coach, said in 1997 that he had seen little of his daughter after the split.
In 1998, Hingis won all four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles, only the fourth in women's tennis history to do so, (the Australian Open with Mirjana Lučić 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.
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TWENTIES
In 2001, Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup.
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Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002 (again teaming with Anna Kournikova) and reached a sixth straight Australian Open final in singles, again facing Capriati.
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2003
22 Years Old
In February 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis, due to her injuries and being in pain. "I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies" In several interviews, she indicated she wanted to go back to her country and coach full-time.
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In 2005, Tennis magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.
With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on 29 November her return to the WTA Tour in 2006.
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2007
26 Years Old
Hingis has dated Spanish golf player Sergio García and English footballer Sol Campbell. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in August 2007.
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Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008.
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2009
28 Years Old
In 2009 Hingis partook in the BBC's dancing competition, Strictly Come Dancing.
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In March 2010, Hingis announced that she was engaged to marry Andreas Bieri, a Swiss attorney, but the engagement was later broken off.
THIRTIES
In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time.
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