Martina Hingis, born September 30, 1980, in Kosice, Slovakia, owes her first name to a star of the little yellow ball. Indeed, her mother, a pro player, names her in honor of the tennis champion. Martina Navratilova. Martina inherits a first racket at 5 years old. The passion for tennis devours everything, even the little girl’s love for horseback riding. After her parents’ divorce, the athletic girl follows her mother to Switzerland. She is 7. And soon, she will have a series of early titles: the youngest tenniswoman to win a junior Grand Slam title at 12, she also becomes the youngest junior world champion at 14.
After her lightning successes, Martina Hingis confirms a monumental potential. Although lacking in power compared to its contemporaries, it stands out for its fluidity of play and an extraordinary tactical sense. In 1997, she beats Mary Pierce in Australia for a Grand Slam tournament and became, a few weeks later at Wimbledon, the youngest tennis world number one in the history of the discipline. She is only 16 and a half years old and a bright future seems to be open to her.
But the sparkling shooting star has health problems, in particular, weaknesses in the ankles and feet that have earned him many visits to surgeons. The forced march towards victory continued despite everything since in 1998, she became one of the few players to accumulate the position of number 1 in singles and doubles. But the dream soon stops (…)
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