Martina Hingis

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Martina has won 5 Grand Slam singles and 9 Grand Slam doubles titles

Martina won her 1st title in Filderstadt in October 1996 and her 1st Grand Slam at the Australian Open in January 1997

Martina has won 43 Singles and 37 doubles titles

Martina first reached #1 on March 31st 1997 and has held the position for 209 weeks

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Martina set to play in Liverpool
3/4/2008

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Former world number one Martina Hingis is to play at the Liverpool International tennis tournament at Calderstones Park in June.

Her last competitive match was a defeat by Shuai Peng in Beijing in September.

Hingis - a five-time Grand Slam winner - is able to play in Liverpool as the Wimbledon warm-up event is invitational and not part of the WTA Tour.

Tournament director Anders Borg said: "It is a great boost for us to have Martina playing in Liverpool.

"She still has a lot to offer the world of tennis and we are just very pleased we can take advantage of that."

Two more Wimbledon legends - Goran Ivanisevic and Pat Cash - have also confirmed they will play in the event.

The tournament takes place from 10-15 June.

ITF Doping Decision
1/4/2008
The International Tennis Federation announced today that an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal convened under the 2007 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme has found that Martina Hingis, a 27-year-old Swiss tennis player, has committed a Doping Offence.

Following a two-day hearing in December 2007, an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal found that a sample provided by Ms Hingis on 29 June 2007 at the Wimbledon Championships in London, England, had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine. Cocaine and its metabolites are Prohibited Substances under WADA’s 2007 List of Prohibited Substances and are therefore also prohibited under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme.

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The International Tennis Federation announced today that an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal convened under the 2007 Tennis Anti-Doping Programme has found that Martina Hingis, a 27-year-old Swiss tennis player, has committed a Doping Offence.

Following a two-day hearing in December 2007, an independent Anti-Doping Tribunal found that a sample provided by Ms Hingis on 29 June 2007 at the Wimbledon Championships in London, England, had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine. Cocaine and its metabolites are Prohibited Substances under WADA’s 2007 List of Prohibited Substances and are therefore also prohibited under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme.

The Tribunal rejected the suggestion made on behalf of Ms Hingis that there were doubts about the identity and/or integrity of the sample attributed to her. It therefore found that she had committed a Doping Offence under Article C.1 of the Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in player’s sample).

The Tribunal also rejected Ms Hingis’ plea of No (or No Significant) Fault or Negligence, on the basis that no mitigation was possible as it had not been shown how the cocaine entered her system. It therefore ruled, in accordance with the sanctions prescribed by the World Anti-Doping Code, that Ms Hingis be suspended from participation for a period of two years, commencing on 1 October 2007, and that her results from The Wimbledon Championships and subsequent events should be disqualified, with the resulting forfeiture of the ranking points and repayment of the prize money (totalling a sum of $129,481) that she won at those events.

The Tribunal’s written decision with reasons is available as a PDF file on www.itftennis.com/antidoping. Any party wishing to appeal the decision will have three weeks to do so from receipt of the written decision.

The Tennis Anti-Doping Programme is a comprehensive and internationally recognised anti-doping programme that applies to all players competing at tournaments sanctioned by the ITF, ATP and WTA Tour. Players are tested for substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency and upon a finding that a Doping Offence has been committed sanctions are imposed in accordance with the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Code. More background information on the Programme, sanctions, tennis statistics and related information can be found at www.itftennis.com/antidoping.

Martina in Barcelona
12/8/2007

Martina was at an indoor equestrian jumping competition at Real Club de Polo in Barcelona, Spain yesterday.

Martina was there supporting her companion Aleksandr Onishenko of Ukraine.

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MartinaWorld #2 on Google
12/5/2007

MartinaWorld is #2 on Google when you type in Martina Hingis. The site is coming up as the 1st fansite for Martina behind Martina Wikipedia entry.

It goes to show that MartinaWorld is THE place to go for everything Martina.

Thanks for everyone for visiting!

Martina taken off WTA rankings
11/19/2007

Even though Martina retired at the beginning of the month, her name has been taken off the new WTA rankings released today to confirm it. A player has to actually request for this to happen otherwise as long as a player has enough tournaments they still maintain a ranking.

Note, when Martina retired in 2003, she still maintained her ranking until towards the end of the year.

Martina makes a surprise appearance in Madrid
11/9/2007
Martina made a surprise appearance at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid today.

Martina was watching the Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic match and was spotted in the players lounge chatting to Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Approached by reporters, Martina had this to say: "I'm sorry I cannot comment on the case for legal reasons. I'm just here to watch tennis tonight. I cannot say anything. Sorry."

Martina in the Ukraine
11/9/2007

Martina has made her 1st ever visit to Ukraine this week.

Martina has taken part in a kids clinic. Check out all of the photos in the gallery.

Martina Hingis aims to clear name
11/4/2007

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Martina Hingis, who announced her retirement from tennis last week because she did "not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities" following her positive test for cocaine, is continuing to wage a legal battle to clear her name and has hired the London-based lawyer who helped former British athlete Diane Modahl overturn a four-year drugs ban.

Anti-doping officials are astonished by Hingis's decision to go public with the cocaine charge, which arose from a urine sample she gave at this year's Wimbledon, because she is in the middle of a legal process that will culminate in a personal disciplinary hearing by an independent panel in the near future.

Under the rules of the World Anti-Doping Code, any athlete charged with a drugs offence is guaranteed anonymity until he or she is found guilty. Were she to be cleared by the disciplinary panel, her involvement in a doping case would never be known and her reputation would remain intact.

Far from going quietly to avoid a protracted fight with the drug authorities, as she said in her press conference on Thursday, Hingis is continuing with her battle and is being represented by solicitor Tony Morton-Hooper, who worked for Modahl in the mid-Nineties in her battle against a positive test for testosterone.

He also successfully defended British triathlete Spencer Smith, who was cleared of any doping offence after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in 1998.

In both cases, Morton-Hooper attacked the "chain of custody" documentation of the urine samples, which ensures that the sealed test tubes can be tracked accurately throughout the testing procedure.

Comments made by Hingis this week, when she strenuously protested her innocence, suggested Morton-Hooper would be using the same defence.

"The attorney and his experts discovered various inconsistencies with the urine sample that was taken during Wimbledon," said Hingis, who won five Grand Slam titles and became the youngest world No 1 at the age of 16.

"He is also convinced that the doping officials mishandled the process and would not be able to prove that the urine that was tested for cocaine actually came from me."

The International Tennis Federation, who are responsible for dope testing at Grand Slam tournaments, are understood to repudiate any claims that their testing procedure is flawed.

Quite why Hingis decided to reveal the doping allegations remains a mystery. One theory is that the news was about to leak. Another is that she is resigned to her fate and was trying to take the sting out of the story with an early denial.

However, retiring may not allow her to escape the shame of a drug suspension. Regardless of whether she is playing, the ITF would still have no choice but to impose a punishment in case she decided to come out of retirement. Cocaine is a performance-enhancing stimulant and carries a two-year ban.

Last Tournament
China Open

Main Draw - Singles - Seed: 5
September 17 - September 23

1R	won	Tiantian Sun	6-2 6-3
2R	lost	Shuai Peng	5-7 1-6

Rankings

Singles: 19 Points: 1502

Doubles: 65 Points: 801

Yearly: 20 Points: 1372

Weeks at # 1: 209

Prize Money
2008: $0.00
Career: $20,130,660.00