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Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as world No. 1.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Press Center – Weeks at No.1 )〕 She has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three at the Australian Open, one at Wimbledon, and one at the US Open), eleven Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty major titles. In addition, she has won the season-ending WTA Championships two times in singles and three times in doubles. Hingis set a series of "youngest ever" records, including youngest ever Grand Slam champion and youngest ever world No. 1, 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 up until that point, and, according to ''Forbes'', had been the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World's Highest Paid Women Athletes )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Highest-paid female athletes )〕 After several surgeries and long recuperations, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6 and winning three singles titles, and also receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year.〔 She retired in November 2007, following months of injuries and a positive test for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, during the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, which led to a two-year suspension from the sport. In July 2013, Hingis came out of retirement to play the North American hard court season, partnering Daniela Hantuchová.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Sport - Martina Hingis wins doubles match on return to competitive tennis )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News - WTA Tennis English )〕 After achieving moderate success in 2014 playing with Sabine Lisicki and Flavia Pennetta, she partnered up with Sania Mirza in March 2015. Together they won back-to-back Grand Slam titles at the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open that year, as well as the WTA Finals. Widely considered one of the greatest Swiss sportspeople in history and an all-time tennis great, ''Tennis Magazine'' ranked her in 2005 as the 22nd-greatest player, male or female, 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; being appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador.〔(Martina Hingis named Global Ambassador for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. ) Retrieved on 2015-09-11.〕 ==Childhood and early career== Hingis was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now in Slovakia) as Martina Hingisová Molitor, 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 nineteenth in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. Martina Hingis spent her early childhood growing up in the town of Rožnov (now in Czech Republic). Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987 and emigrated to Trübbach in Switzerland when she was seven.〔 Her mother remarried to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician. Martina Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization. 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 professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. She ended the year ranked World no. 87.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martina Hingis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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