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Tennis player. Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980, in Kosice, Slovakia. She was brought up in Switzerland and, playing for that country, in 1997 became the youngest singles Grand Slam tournament winner of the 20th century after her victory in the Australian Open, and the youngest-ever world number 1 when she replaced the injured Steffi Graf.
Winner of the 1996 and 1998 Wimbledon doubles title, she won the singles title in 1997 at the age of 16, and that same year won the U.S. and Australian titles, retaining the latter in 1998 and 1999. Her doubles titles include the Australian Open (1997, 1998, 1999), the US Open (1998), and the French Open (1998, 2000).
Injury forced her retirement in 2003, but she returned to competitive tennis at the start of 2006 and won the Australian Open mixed doubles title (with Mahesh Bhupathi) and the Italian Open. She received the Laureus World Sports award for comeback of the year in 2006.
In 2007, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis as well admitted that she tested positive for cocaine. In 2008, she was banned from tennis for two years, but has stated she would not come out of retirement.
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Martina Hingis (Tennis. Born, Kosice, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 30, 1980.) To many, Martina Hingis represents unfulfilled promise. To others, it’s a matter of too much, too soon. Yet Hingis’ record is fairly impressive, although her career was undone by injuries. Born in what was then Czechslovakia and named for a tennis-playing countrywoman (Martina Navratilova (q.v.)), she was actually raised in Switzerland and, by 14, was a tennis phenom. Hingis was the No. 1 seed five straight times at the U.S. Open (1997-2001) and won the women’s singles title in the first of those years. He was 16 years, 11 months, and eight days old when she beat Venus Williams in the final, 6-0, 6-4. That year, she was clearly the world’s best women’s player, winning three major championships and losing in the final at the French Open. All told, she was ranked No. 1 in the world for 209 weeks. Hingis was 40-7 in singles at the Open (1995-2002), but never won singles again. She did win the 1998 doubles. In 2005, Hingis played for the New York SporTimes of W.T.T. and then rejoined the circuit, reaching the quarterfinals of the 2006 Australian Open. Hailed as a tactical genius on court for her ability to put points together cerebrally, Hingis found herself being overpowered by younger, stronger players who joined the tour shortly after the peak of her career.
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