Martina Hingis

Martina was named after Martina Navratilova by her mother and coach (Melanie Molitor, who Martina sacked in June 1999 (as a coach that is)).

Here we have some assorted shots. Click the thumbnails to get larger pictures.

OK chaps, let's have a little caption competition to liven things up. The best caption emailed to me for this: wins £500! (in monopoly money) damn, damn. "And I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you darned kids"


24 June 1999: It seems Miss Hingis has been very naughty, at the final of the French Open this year when she lost to the wonderful Steffi Graf, (she refused to play on at one point and had to be pushed back on court by her mother), and then this week at Wimbledon, when she was so upset that her mother wasn't there (the first important match Martina had ever played that she missed) that she played like a person with no arms.

Maybe Martina will regret choosing to have some independence from her mother, and maybe she will also regret calling Jana Novotna "too old and too slow."

At any rate she's sliding down my list of favourite desirably talented female tennis players.


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