Martina Hingis Bio, Age, Wedding, 2019, Tennis Partner And More

Martina Hingis Bio

Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player. She spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 and 90 weeks as doubles world No. 1, holding both No. 1 rankings simultaneously for 29 weeks.

She won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-five major titles. In addition, she won the season-ending WTA Finals two times in singles and three times in doubles, and an Olympic silver medal.

Before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in 2002, at the age of 22, she had won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles titles and, according to Forbes, was the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001.

After several surgeries and long recoveries, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6, winning two Tier I tournaments and also receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year. She retired in November 2007 after being hampered by a hip injury for several months and testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine during that year’s Wimbledon Championships, which led to a two-year suspension from the sport.

In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play the doubles events of the North American hard-court season. During her doubles comeback, she won four Grand Slam women’s doubles tournaments, six Grand Slam mixed doubles tournaments, 27 WTA titles, and the silver medal in women’s doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Hingis retired after the 2017 WTA Finals while ranked world No. 1.

Widely considered an all-time tennis great, Hingis was ranked by Tennis magazine in 2005 as the 8th-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years. She was named one of the “30 Legends of Women’s Tennis: Past, Present, and Future” by TIME in June 2011. In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and was appointed two years later the organization’s first-ever Global Ambassador.

Martina Hingis Age

Martina Hingis was born on 30th September 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová, to accomplished tennis players Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis. Molitorová was a professional tennis player who was once ranked tenth among women in Czechoslovakia and was determined to develop Hingis into a top player as early as pregnancy.

Her father was ranked as high as 19th in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. Martina Hingis spent her early childhood growing up in the town of Rožnov pod Radhoštem (now in the Czech Republic).

Hingis’s parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987 and emigrated to Trübbach (Wartau) in Switzerland when she was seven. Her mother remarried, to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician. Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization.

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Hingis began playing tennis when she was two years old and entered her first tournament at age four. In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls’ singles at the French Open. In 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls’ singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open.

She made her WTA debut at the Zurich Open in October 1994, two weeks after turning 14, and ended 1994 ranked world No. 87.

Martina Hingis Wedding

SLOAN! has the pleasure to announce the marriage of former tennis world number one Martina Hingis and sports physician Harry Leemann. After being together for two years, the happy couple exchanged vows in front of 140 guests at a non-religious wedding at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in Switzerland, Europe’s Leading Wellbeing & Medical Health Resort.

The couple kept the wedding a private affair, with only close friends and family invited to the ceremony at Grand Resort Bad Ragaz with the happy couple heading off on their honeymoon after the celebrations. Talking about her plans for married life, Martina Hingis says she wants to dedicate more time to her second biggest passion of horse riding in addition to playing tennis. The newly-weds plan to construct eight horse stalls on their property in Bad Ragaz.

Hingis and Harald Leemann had been in a relationship for more than a year now and they got married in a hush-hush ceremony at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz.

“Sending greetings from our wedding from Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. Grateful to have our family and friends join us on this wonderful day!,” Hingis wrote on Instagram along with a picture with her husband. Leemann had accompanied Hingis at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as a personal supervisor.

This is Hingis’s second marriage. She was married to the French showjumper Thibault Hutin from 2010 to 2013. Hingis, 37, once again made a major announcement through her social media account after revealing her plans to retire on her Facebook page last year.

“Looking back now, it’s hard to believe that almost exactly 23 years ago I made my professional debut,” Hingis said on her Facebook page on Thursday.

“The years that followed have been some of the most rewarding years of my life, both personally and professionally, but I believe the time has come for me to retire, which I will be doing after my last match here in Singapore. “I feel very lucky to have been given the opportunity to play this wonderful sport for so many years.

“Tennis has always been my passion and I am extremely thankful for all the challenges, opportunities, partnerships and friendships it’s given me,” Hingis said.

Martina Hingis and her husband, sports physician Harry Leemann, both 37, are shifting their focus towards sports, health, and medicine. The expertise of Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in these areas will, therefore, play a big role in the lives of Martina and Harry.

“It is a great honor for us to host this very special moment in the lives of Martina Hingis and Harry Leemann at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz. We would like to wish the couple a long and happy life together, filled with harmony and good health”, said Patrick Vogler, CEO, congratulating the pair. Earlier this year, Martina Hingis was announced as the official brand ambassador of Grand Resort Bad Ragaz.

Martina Hingis 2019

Martina Hingis announced the birth of her daughter Lia in March 2019. The Swiss had announced that she was expecting on social media on September 30, 2018, the day of her 38th birthday. Martina revealed the new arrival with a picture of her family, including husband Harald Leemann, a former sports doctor, via social media.

“And then we were three! Harry and I are excited to welcome our baby girl Lia to the world. We are already so in love,” she told her followers.

Tennis Partner

Hingis continued to partner CoCo Vandeweghe in women’s doubles competition. Together they reached the quarterfinals of the Sydney International, losing to eventual champions Tímea Babos and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, and the second round of the Australian Open, losing to the Australian duo of Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua.

This capped a run of poor form, having gone 5–5 in tournaments since they made the semifinals at the US Open the previous season. As a result, Hingis split with Vandeweghe and entered a new partnership with Taiwan’s Chan Yung-Jan, who herself had just split with her sister Chan Hao-ching. In the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open, Hingis reached the quarterfinals with Leander Paes before losing to another Australian duo, Samantha Stosur and Sam Groth in straight sets.

In preparation for the upcoming Fed Cup quarterfinal match between Switzerland and France, Hingis partnered with Belinda Bencic to defend her St. Petersburg title. The pair lost in the first round to Gabriela Dabrowski and Michaëlla Krajicek.

In the Fed Cup quarterfinal match, Hingis instead paired up with Timea Bacsinszky and won their doubles match against Amandine Hesse and Kristina Mladenovic, helping the team to a 4–1 victory to advance to the semifinals.

In the first two tournaments of their new partnership, Hingis and Chan suffered some “tough” losses. They fell to Olga Savchuk and Yaroslava Shvedova in the semifinals of the Qatar Open and to Andrea Hlavácková and Peng Shuai in straight sets in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

However, they immediately rebounded by winning their first title together at the Indian Wells Open, defeating Hingis’ old partner Sania Mirza with Barbora Strýcová in the quarterfinals, top-seeded Mattek-Sands and Šafárová in the semifinals, and Czech pair Lucie Hradecká and Katerina Siniaková in the final. They then reached the semifinals of the Miami Open, before losing to Mirza and Strýcová.

Hingis again sought to practice with a Swiss partner before the Fed Cup semifinal clash of Switzerland versus Belarus, and this time paired up with Bacsinszky to enter the inaugural Ladies Open Biel Bienne. Hingis and Bacsinszky reached the final, succumbing there to Hsieh Su-Wei and Monica Niculescu.

Despite winning her doubles rubber with Bacsinszky in the Fed Cup semifinal tie, Switzerland would ultimately lose 2–3. Switzerland had been seeking to reach its first final since Hingis had spearheaded the team to a narrow defeat to Spain in 1998.

In the clay-court season, Hingis and Chan continued their good form to win back-to-back titles at the Madrid and Italian Opens, defeating Tímea Babos and Andrea Hlavácková and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina respectively, in the finals of each event. Hingis’ victory in Madrid was her 100th WTA career title.

This success marked the pair as one of the pre-tournament favorites to win the French Open. Hingis and Chan reached the semifinals, where their 12 matches winning streak was ended by eventual champions Mattek-Sands and Šafárová. Hingis and Paes lost in the opening round of the mixed doubles competition to Katarina Srebotnik and Raven Klaasen in a super tiebreak.

Hingis and Chan again won back-to-back titles, this time at the Mallorca Open and the Eastbourne International. At Mallorca, they won the title by walkover after Jelena Jankovic and Anastasija Sevastova withdrew from the title match due to an injury sustained by Sevastova in the singles competition.

At Eastbourne, they won after defeating Barty and Dellacqua in the final. However, like the French Open two months previous, Hingis and Chan could not replicate the success at Grand Slam level: losing at the quarterfinal stage to Grönefeld and Peschke at Wimbledon.

In the mixed doubles competition, Hingis paired up with new partner Great Britain’s Jamie Murray after splitting from Leander Paes. As top seeds, they reached the final without losing a set, before defeating defending champions Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen in the championship match.

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Hingis and Chan next played at the Canadian Open, where the German-Czech pair of Grönefeld and Peschke defeated them for the second tournament in a row in the quarterfinals.

However, not to be deterred, a week later at the Cincinnati Open they produced another winning run and defeated Hsieh and Niculescu in the final to capture their next title together. On 14 August, Hingis and Chan became one of the first teams to qualify for the doubles competition at the year-end WTA Finals.

At the US Open, Hingis emerged victorious from both the women’s and the mixed doubles competition. Jamie Murray and she defeated Chan Hao-ching and Michael Venus in the final to capture their second consecutive title together and remain undefeated as a pair.

Then, less than 24 hours later with Chan, they defeated Hradecká and Siniaková in the final to win their first Major title together. In total, this was Hingis’s 25th Grand Slam title across all disciplines.

Hingis and Chan extended their winning run to 18 matches in China by winning their third and fourth straight titles: the Wuhan and China Open. In Wuhan, they defeated Shuko Aoyama and Yang Zhaoxuan in the final. With this win, Hingis ascended to the No. 1 ranking on 2 October for the 67th week in her career. In Beijing, they defeated Babos and Hlavácková. Hingis announced her retirement at the WTA finals in Singapore on October 2017.

Grand Slam

Martina Hingis won five Grand Slam singles titles, three at the Australian Open from 1997 to 1999, one at Wimbledon in 1997 and one at the U.S. Open in 1997. She is a dominant player in doubles, winning 10 Grand Slam doubles titles and 3 mixed doubles titles.

Hingis has retired twice from the game. The first time was in 2002 when she was struggling with injuries and was only 22. She returned to tennis in 2005 but retired two years later after sustaining more injuries.

A blood test had also proved that she was using cocaine, an illegal drug. In 2013, she returned to playing doubles and became a tennis coach. She won the 2015 Wimbledon doubles title together with Sania Mirza, 19 years after winning her first Wimbledon doubles title in 1996. She was a contestant in the 2009 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Net Worth

Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player who has a net worth of $25 million. Martina Hingis accumulated her net worth through her years in pro tennis and is the winner of nine grand slam wins