Martina Hingis

**Martina Hingis** German pronunciation: [marˈtiːna ˈhɪŋɡɪs]; aka **Martina Hingisová Molitorová**; born **Martina Hingisová**. on September 30, 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks. She won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-five major titles. In addition, she won the season-ending WTA Finals two times in singles and three times in doubles, an Olympic silver medal, and a record seventeen Tier I singles titles.

## Career highlights

Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records during the 1990s, including youngest-ever Grand Slam champion and youngest-ever world No. 1. Before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in early 2003, at the age of 22, she had won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles titles and, according to *Forbes*, was the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001. After several surgeries and long recoveries, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6, winning two Tier I tournaments, and also receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year. She retired in November 2007 after being hampered by a hip injury for several months and testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine during that year's Wimbledon Championships, which led to a two-year suspension from the sport.

In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play the doubles events of the North American hard-court season. During her doubles comeback, she won four Grand Slam women's doubles tournaments, six Grand Slam mixed doubles tournaments (completing the Career Grand Slam), 27 WTA titles, and the silver medal in women's doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Hingis retired after the 2017 WTA Finals while ranked world No. 1.

Widely considered an all-time tennis great, Hingis was ranked by *Tennis* magazine in 2005 as the 8th-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years. She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by *TIME* in June 2011. In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and was appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador.

## Personal life

In 2000, Hingis dated Swedish tennis player Magnus Norman and Spanish golfer Sergio García. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split up with him in August 2007. She dated former tennis players Ivo Heuberger, Justin Gimelstob, and Julián Alonso.

On December 10, 2010, in Paris, Hingis married then-24-year-old Thibault Hutin, a French equestrian show jumper she had met at a competition the previous April.
On July 8, 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper *Schweizer Illustrierte* the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year. In 2017 it was reported that she was dating Spaniard David Tosas Ros, a sports manager.

Hingis speaks five languages: Swiss German, Standard German, Czech, English and French.

On July 20, 2018, Hingis married former sports doctor Harald Leemann in Switzerland in a secret ceremony at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. Hingis and Leemann had been in a relationship for almost a year before they got married.

On September 30, 2018 (her 38th birthday) Hingis announced, via social media, her first pregnancy. She gave birth to a daughter, Lia, on 26 February 2019.

## References

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2. ↑ World's Highest Paid Women Athletes. Top End Sports. Retrieved on 2 November 2015.
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4. ↑ BBC Sport – Martina Hingis wins doubles match on return to competitive tennis. *BBC Sport*.
5. ↑ News – WTA Tennis English. *Women's Tennis Association*.
6. ↑ "Martina Hingis to retire again after WTA Finals", STL News. Retrieved on 26 October 2017.
7. ↑ William Lee Adams. "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future – Martina Hingis", *TIME*, 22 June 2011. Retrieved on 19 August 2011.
8. ↑ Martina Hingis named Global Ambassador for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2015-09-11.
9. ↑ "Hingis elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame", *ITF Tennis*, 4 March 2013. Retrieved on 6 March 2013.
10. ↑ Scott, Bill. "Shanghai Open: Love match is thrown off court", 19 October 2000. Retrieved on 7 September 2014.
11. ↑ Simon Cambers. "Tennis-Hingis and Štěpánek split up", 11 August 2007.
12. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jan/14/tennis.australianopen20072
13. ↑ Martina Hingis Set To Marry And End The Career Of Radek Stepanek. deadspin.com (30 December 2006). Retrieved on 3 February 2010.
14. ↑ Peter Mikelbank. "Martina Hingis Marries", 13 December 2010.
15. ↑ "We split up in January", 8 July 2013.
16. ↑ Rose, Hilary. "Martina Hingis: I chose to play with Jamie Murray. He’s too nice to make the first move", *The Times*, 2017-07-13.
17. ↑ "So, tell me about your mother", 3 June 2001.
18. ↑ "Martina Hingis marries her former physician", 21 July 2018.
19. ↑ Hingis announces pregnancy on 38th birthday (1 October 2018).
20. ↑ Hingis announces the birth of baby Lia (9 March 2019).
21. ↑ Martina Hingis nach Geburt wieder topfit! (18 March 2019). “Her daughter is not yet three weeks old, as shows Martina Hingis again athletic. The tennis star makes laps with her little Lia”

## External links

* Martina Hingis article at *Wikipedia*
* Martina Hingis links at FreeOnes
* Martina Hingis at Babepedia
* Martina Hingis at the Women's Tennis Association
* Martina Hingis at the International Tennis Federation