Martina Hingis Reaches Point Of No Return
By Richard Pagliaro
Martina Hingis revisited her past in scoring a straight-sets win over Jana Novotna in today's Liverpool International Tennis Tournament exhibition match at Calderstones Park. But the former World No. 1, who was hit wtih a two-year ban from professional tennis after testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon last summer, made it
Martina Hingis to play exhibition vs. Novotna on Friday
Martina Hingis, banned from the WTA Tour for two years for testing positive for cocaine, will play an exhibition match against Jana Novotna during the Liverpool International tournament on Friday.
Organizers are billing it a rematch of the 1997 Wimbledon final. Hingis tested positive after a third-round exit at Wimbledon last year.
Hingis
Martina Hingis: Taxing Travel Contributes to Early Retirement
By Tennis Week
Four-time French Open champion Justine Henin was on hand to annoint Ana Ivanovic as her successor and present the second-seeded Serbian with the title trophy after she beat Dinara Safina to capture her first Grand Slam championship on Saturday.
The 26-year-old Henin, who requested the WTA Tour remove her from its
Martina Hingis interview before this exhibition at Liverpool
Six-time Grand Slam winner Martina Hingis talks exclusively to Liverpooltennis.co.uk as she looks forward to playing at the Tradition-ICAP Liverpool International Tennis Tournament later this month.
Liverpooltennis.co.uk: First of all Martina, we are all so pleased that you will play at Liverpool this summer, we haven't heard from
Martina Hingis Tests Positive For Cocaine, Retires Tennis star Martina Hingis said Thursday that she’s been accused of testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon this year, but she denied using the drug. She also announced her retirement from tennis. “I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous that I’ve decided to confront it head on by talking to the press,” Martina Hingis said. “I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely 100 percent innocent.” “I believe” that I am innocent? That’s about as believable as all of those claims of innocence and hunting down “real killers” O.J. Simpson used to make. Martina Hingis: Snorting coke, retiring from tennis, lookin’ good! “They say that cocaine increases self-confidence and creates a type of euphoria,” she said. “I don’t know. I only know that if I were to try to hit the ball while in any state of euphoria, it simply wouldn’t work. “I think it would be impossible fo
Martina Hingis tested positive for cocaine and decided to retire from tennis, but she stated to the press, "I have tested positive but I have never taken drugs and I feel 100 percent innocent."I believe her.
The Swiss five-time Grand Slam champion left her career in tennis yesterday after revealing she had tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon and is contemplating not taking any action to clear her name.
Martina Hingis, who denies having taken the drug, said she provided a positive urine sample after her straight-sets, third-round defeat by American Laura Granville.
Martina Hingis calls the accusation that she of tested positive for cocaine at Wimbledon “horrendous,” the Associated Press reports.
Martina said “I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous that I’ve decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press,” she said Thursday. “I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely 100 percent innocent.”
She said she was accused of taking cocaine during this year’s Wimbledon by “an outsource testing company.” She says her reaction was “shocked and appalled” when she notified that her urine
Tennis ace Martina Hingis is under investigation after testing positive for cocaine. The 27-year-old Swiss player announced her retirement from the sport on Thursday after admitting she failed a drug test at the Wimbledon tennis championships in...
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On the last day of March in 1997 Martina Hingis became the world’s youngest female player to ever lead in the world rankings at the age of 16. Also in 1997 she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon, the US Open, and came within one match of winning the Grand Slam losing in the finals of [...]
Famous Switzerland tennis player Martina Hingis just announced this Thursday that she is retiring from Tennis. She also admitted that the cause is the fact that she tested positive on a drug test, apparently for cocaine use.
According to Hingis, the results from a drug test during this year’s Wimbledon were positive and she might be under investigation. However, she still says she’s completely innocent and that she tested positive but never has taken drugs. Now, that’s weird. If she’s not guilty, why the hell is she quitting Tennis?
“Because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities”, says Martina Hingis. To be honest, this is one of the most ridiculous reasons I could think of to put an end to a tennis career like hers. I mean, if you are a great tennis player, ranked 7th in the world just last year, with thousands of fans and still a promising future, AND you’re not on drugs… how on Earth you wouldn’t fight to correct that mistake? She also
Nickname : Swiss Miss Country : Switzerland Residence : Trübbach, Switzerland, Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA Date of birth : September 30, 1980 (1980-09-30)Place of birth : Košice, Czechoslovakia Height : 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) Weight : 59 kg (130 lb) Turned : Pro 1994 Retired 2002; Comeback in 2006 Plays Right; Two-handed backhand Career Prize Money $20,063,873 (4th in all-time rankings) Singles Career record: 545-130 Career titles: 43 WTA, 2 ITF Highest ranking: No. 1 (March 31, 1997) Grand Slam results Australian Open W (1997, 1998, 1999) French Open F (1997, 1999) Wimbledon W (1997) U.S. Open W (1997) Doubles Career record: 283-53 Career titles: 37 WTA, 1 ITF Highest ranking: No. 1 (June 8, 1998) Martina Hingis (pronounced: hɪŋˈɡɪs) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia) is a former World No. 1 Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss", she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She has also
I remember watching a documentary about Martina Hingis on how her mother got her name from Martina Navratilova. This documentary ran just after she had won her first Wimbledon as the youngest ever in the 20th century.
I thought she would win more than 20 grandslams.Her youth gave us the indication. We thought she would come near or even surpass Steffi Graf’s. But we’ve seen in our eyes how she was denied those grandslams.
Martina Hingis should have won the 1999 French Open against Stefi Graf. She was one match-point away but the great Steffi Graf came back to capture the moment.
We had witnessed how Hingis struggled against the power-serving Williams sister. Martina had never had an answer to those forces. Since then she was gone from the spotlight.
She made a comeback last year from injury. Her intelligence of the game is still there but her physical ability can no longer contain what is required for her to win.
Hingis had just pulled herself out of this month’s Fren
Tennis hottie Martina Hingis said Thursday she has been accused of testing positive for cocaine at Wimbledon, but she denied using the drug. She also announced her retirement from professional tennis. "I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous that I’ve decided to confront it head on by talking to the press," she said. "I [...]
