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Martina Hingis
Becoming a teenage world number one before building a second championship career in doubles.
Three singles majors · Doubles Grand Slam
- Born
- 30 September 1980
- Birthplace
- Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
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Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former tennis player known for anticipation, placement and tactical intelligence.
Early life
Tennis parents
Her mother Melanie Molitor coached her from early childhood.
Swiss upbringing
She moved from Czechoslovakia to Switzerland as a child.
Career
- 1994
Professional debut
She entered the tour at fourteen.
- 1997
World number one
She won three singles majors in a breakthrough season.
- 2003–2007
Injuries and return
Ankle problems interrupted her career before a singles comeback.
- 2013–2017
Doubles specialist
She returned again and won major titles in women’s and mixed doubles.
Achievements
Three singles majors
She won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and US Open.
Doubles Grand Slam
She won all four women’s doubles majors in the same year.
Olympic silver
She partnered Timea Bacsinszky in Rio.
Beyond tennis
Horse riding
Equestrian sport has been a long-standing interest outside tennis.
Doping suspension
A positive cocaine test led to a two-year ban beginning in 2007; she denied knowingly taking the drug.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Official career history and recognition ↗Photo: si.robi. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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