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Martina Hingis Lleyton Hewitt

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PRESENTATION

Hingis, Martina (born 1980), Swiss tennis player home Czechoslovakia.

Martina Hingis has won 43 titles on the professional circuit (November 2007), including 5 Grand Slams and two Masters. She is the youngest holder of a Grand Slam title (16 years) since Lottie Dod in 1887 BC, and the youngest world number one in tennis history (16 years and a half in March 1997) .

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UNUSUALLY EARLY SUCCESS

Born in Kosice (Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) Martina Hingis teaches tennis at the age of 3 years driven by his mother, a former national champion. In 1985 they emigrated to Switzerland where Martin began his career in 1993. She immediately noticed among the juniors of the Internationaux de France, an event she won at the age of 13. She won again the following year in 1994 on clay in Paris, then to the International of Great Britain. She became professional player in October, ranked 399 th world.

January 1996 is a key date in the career of Martina Hingis, who climbed to the 15 th up the world rankings after reaching in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open. Six months later, she won the doubles title at Wimbledon, alongside Helena Sukova. But this is the year 1997 reveals the real, in January at the age of 16 years and five months, she won her first Grand Slam title in singles at the Australian Open, a tournament she won again in 1998 and 1999, beating the French in the final Amelie Mauresmo. In July 1998, she snatches victory in the Czech Jana Novotna in the Wimbledon grass, and in September, she won the title at the International U.S. in New York.

Femdom and intentionally sometimes arrogant by some, virtually unbeatable for two years reigned over the women's circuit (1997 and 1998), Martina Hingis, however, must face from 1999 to more intense competition.

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EVOLUTION upset, an unshakeable

Winner of nine tournaments in 2000, three in 2001 and two in 2002, Martina Hingis withdraws from the circuit in October 2002 to the Injury. She is back on the courts in February 2005 after more than two years of absence, the first tournaments are difficult to negotiate, it is finally in May 2006, Rome (Italy), she won her first title since the tournament in Tokyo early in the 2002 season. Including reaching the quarter-finals of Australia and France in 2006, Martina Hingis returns to top 10 players in the world and impressed by his willingness and determination.

However, the following year, Martina Hingis hassle few matches and struggling to regain his best form. Regularly injured and suspected of doping, it puts an end to his sporting career in November 2007.