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Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 209 weeks and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 90 weeks, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. Hingis won 43 WTA Tour-level singles titles and 64 doubles titles, including a total of 25 major titles: five in single…
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Born 30 September 1980 · Q134720
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“s Swiss boyfriend, the former journalist Mario Widmer, and remains close to her stepfather Andreas Zogg. Their differences have become increasingly evident this year, says one insider on the women”
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Yardbarker: Boris Becker, Martina Hingis, and others react to Roger Federer's Hall of Fame induction
Career landmark: wedding.
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After his second Hopman Cup victory, Federer was quoted as saying: "I learned a lot from her, especially the two years I was here – once as a hitting partner and once as a partner with Martina
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On 30 September 2018 (her 38th birthday) Hingis announced, via social media, her first pregnancy.
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Zee News: Sania Mirza & Martina Hingis: Santina pair's 41-match win streak ends; 26-year-old record remains intact
Won three Grand Slam Mixed Doubles title with Leander Paes, an accomplishment last achieved in 1969 by Margaret Court and Marty Riessen
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Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and was appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador
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Again beating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotná in the final
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Hingis took part in the British television dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing
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Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008
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And her first Premier Mandatory doubles title since winning the 2001 title in Moscow
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Won the Laureus World Comeback of the Year with WTA Tour Womens (2006).
Awarded Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year (2006).
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Hingis became engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek in November 2006, but the couple broke off the engagement in August 2007.
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Tennis magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the Tennis era
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As the eighth-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years
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“I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies.”
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Won the Hopman Cup with _Retired Tennis (2001).
Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup
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For making allegedly defective shoes that injured her feet
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Defeating both of the Williams sisters en route, before losing to Jennifer Capriati
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Hingis again found herself in both the singles and doubles finals at the Australian Open
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Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1999).
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1998).
Awarded Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award (1998).
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With Jana Novotná, completed a doubles Grand Slam, third player in the Open Era
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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
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Suffered a foot injury, and she withdrew from the Wimbledon doubles competition in 1999
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Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1997).
Awarded BBC World Sport Star of the Year (1997).
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1997).
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Hingis contended all Grand Slam tournament finals that year; second youngest winner in the US Open at 16 years, 11 months and 8 days
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1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, and reached 8 finals in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007
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Became youngest winner there in tennis history at 16 years and 3 months
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Hingis became the World No
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Was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli
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From Sydney to the final of Roland Garros had a 37-match winning streak, best from 1995 until present
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With Helena Suková became youngest doubles winner at 15 years, 282 days and youngest ever Grand Slam winner
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Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months
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Played for Switzerland Billie Jean King Cup team (1995–2017).
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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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Joined ATP Womens in 1994.
12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open
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Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987 and emigrated to Trübbach (Wartau) in Switzerland when she was seven.
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And emigrated to Trübbach (Wartau) in Switzerland when she was seven
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Born 1980-09-30.
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“s WTA Tour. 2006 At the Australian Open, Hingis lost in the quarterfinals to second-seeded Kim Clijsters. 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”
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