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
She is the player to beat. We are two completely different players now. I am really looking forward to facing the best. I will just go out there and play. I need to bring out my best as I will be facing a very confident player.
Looking at the draw, I kind of prefer playing someone like tonight where I know who I'm facing on the other side.
I have never met her before so it will be an interesting match and I am looking forward to it.
I'm not looking for any excuses. She was just too good today. I've had a very good start to my comeback and I will go home with my head up.
I'm not looking for any excuses, she was just too good today. I'm going home with my head up. This is a good start to my comeback. I don't think I played badly today, she was just too good. Being in the finals here in Tokyo really exceeded my expectations.
I'm not looking for any excuses. She was just too good today.
I've played a lot of tennis this week and I'm not used to that.
I served very well in the first set, I held my serve and that was key just like yesterday. I won with my heart today. Winning the tiebreak gave me confidence.
I've been trying to work on my whole game, baseline and serve. You have to have a serve to be able to survive today and we'll see if I can bring it on.
Probably I was a little more determined, even more hungry.
Both of us had our ups and downs, but there's so much she can still learn.
Either way it would have been a great match. It was just very difficult conditions and today it was whoever had the stronger head and stayed in the match. One shot here and there and it could have been different.
Beating Lindsay today here under these circumstances on this occasion, it's definitely not easy mentally for me to play her. Now I know that I have the potential to meld with the best.
At that point, it just was very flowing, I didn't even think about it. I just went on court and did my thing and I was very happy doing it.