Happy Birthday to Martina Hingis
About
The sports beauty born in Slovakia in 1980 Martina Hingis started playing tennis at a young age. She became the youngest Grand Slam champion in history with her Wimbledon doubles win at age 15, and was the top women’s tennis player in the world in the late 1990s. Hingis retired in 2003 due to injuries and again in 2007 following allegations of drug use, before making a successful return to doubles play in 2013.
Tennis player. Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980, in Kosice, Slovakia. Brought up in Switzerland, she began playing tennis at an early age and made her professional debut just after turning 14.
Hingis went on to win the Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles championships that year, and defended her Australian singles crown in 1998 and 1999. She also starred in doubles, notching four championships at the Australian Open, two at the French Open and Wimbledon, and one at the U.S. Open. Altogether, she spent 209 weeks in the top spot of the WTA rankings.
Accomplishments
Martina Hingis started playing tennis at a young age. She became the youngest Grand Slam champion in history with her Wimbledon doubles win at age 15, and was the top women’s tennis player in the world in the late 1990s. The following year, she became the youngest singles Grand Slam tournament winner of the 20th century after her victory in the Australian Open, and the youngest-ever world No. 1 when she replaced the injured Steffi Graf.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis came together in March this year and have been on a roll ever since – notching doubles titles for fun. At US Open, the top seeded pair did not lose a single set in a marauding performance from start to finish earning their second consecutive Grand Slam title.
The Indo-Swiss duo have been in red-hot form and on Sunday, stream-rolled past the fourth seeded pair of Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova. It took the top seeds only 70 minutes to wrap up the final 6-3 6-3 against the fourth seed Kazakh-Australian combination at Flushing Meadows. Mirza and Hingis were in understandably upbeat mood speaking after the match.
Awards grabbed by her
Best female tennis player ESPY award in 1998
Laureus world sports award for comeback in 2006
BBC overseas sports personality of the year
ITF World Champion – Women’s Doubles (with Sania Mirza) in 2015
First Global Ambassador for the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2015
Her career down fall
In November 2007, Hingis called a press conference to announce that she was under investigation for testing positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, during a urine test taken by players at Wimbledon.
Hingis’ urine sample contained an estimated 42 nanograms per millilitre of benzoylecgonine, less than half the level required for a positive confirmatory test for cocaine in the workplace under the United States government Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration guidelines.
The International Tennis Federation’s report on the matter mentions that “the very low estimated concentration of benzoylecgonine (42 ng/ml) was such that it would go unreported in many drug testing programmes such as that of the US military, which uses a screening threshold of 150. As the amount was so minute, Hingis appealed, arguing the likely cause was contamination rather than intentional ingestion. In January 2008, the International Tennis Federation’s tribunal suspended Hingis from the sport for two years, effective from October 2007.
Her personal life is being like …………..
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 and Julian Alonso.
On 10 December 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 8 July 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper Schweizer Illustrierte the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year.
Fast Facts You Need to Know about her
She Has 5 Grand Slams Titles
She Started Competing at the Age of 4 and Turned Pro at 14
Her Mother, Melanie Molitor, Has Coached Her Most of Her Career
She’s Retired Twice
At a very little age she has won many things , from her very little age onward her career graphs have been many ups and downs but the lady proved herself hardworking at every stages of her life and wins many hearts. We wish her all the best for her future life and a very Happy Birthday. !!