Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis
Martina Hingisis a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in doubles by the WTA. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and has won five Grand Slam singles titles, twelve Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-two major titles. In addition, she has won the season-ending WTA Championships two times...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth30 September 1980
CityKosice, Slovakia
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.
One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.
Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'
I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too.
I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it.
When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
I like fast cars. And I like champions.
I'm sure she wants revenge. I'll just try not to let that happen.
Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.
The older you get, the more you learn.