Martina Hingis will come to play at the Manchester Masters 2010 and the former Wimbledon winner is really looking forward to show her still impressive tennis skills, saying that she is really looking forward to play at the Northern on her favourite surface grass again.
The Swiss “tennis queen“ Hingis can look back on an impressive professional tennis career. Already at the age of thirteen the former World No. 1 broke records to amaze the tennis world.
Martina Hingis was born in Slovakia 1980 and her mum as well as her dad were former Slovakian tennis players. Apparently, Hingis started playing tennis at the age of two years and played her first tournament when she was only four years old. She won her first ITF-tournament aged twelve and won the Junior title at the French Open in the same year being only thirteen years old. She is until today the youngest ever female tennis player to win a Junior Grand Slam title.
She gave her debut on the professional tour in 1994 at the age of thirteen but she started to become really famous in 1997. In this year, Hingis won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open to become the youngest World No. 1 of all time. In total Hingis won 43 single and 36 doubles titles on the WTA-tour as well as five grand slam titles in total, three at the Australian Open and one each at Wimbledon and the US Open. In between 1997 and 2001 she was the World No. 1 for a total of 209 weeks and in addition to that, Hingis became 1998 only the third women to top the World ranking in both the singles and the doubles.
In 2003, Hingis retired from professional tennis to start a comeback in 2006. At the Australian Open in 2006 she won the Mixed-title to raise her total Grand Slam titles to fifteen.
At the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament, another event organized by Northern Vision, Martina Hingis first appeared after her second retirement from professional tennis to play Jana Novotna and the legends mixed doubles with Pat Cash.
Now, Martina is ready to play in England again: “I had some great success in England over the years, especially in Wimbledon, so it is always nice to come back”.