Martina Hingis News

Martina Hingis needed only 46 minutes Tuesday to complete a 6-0, 6-1 win over Australian Nicole Pratt at the Australian Women's Hardcourt Championship. The former top-ranked Hingis returned to this tournament last season after three years on the sidelines and reached the semifinals. Weeks later, she made the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, an event she won three consecutive years from 1997. The Swiss star, who finished the 2006 season ...

Maria Sharapova of Russia beat two-time champion Belgium's Kim Clijsters 6-4, 6-4 at the WTA Championships on Wednesday, moving a step closer to a spot in the semifinals. In other matches, Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated fellow Russian Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-3, and two-time winner Martina Hingis of Switzerland pulled out a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Russian Nadia Petrova. Hingis' victory means top-ranked Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo will not finish the year ...

Fifth-seeded Martina Hingis began her bid for a second Zurich Open title with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over Anna-Lena Groenefeld in Monday's first round. It was Hingis' first match on home soil and her first appearance at the tournament in six years. ``I'm returning defending champion,'' Hingis joked. ``There were a lot of people that I know and friends who came to see the match. It's always special to play ...

Top-seeded Martina Hingis coasted into the second round of the Korea Open on Wednesday with 6-3, 6-2 win over teenager Caroline Wozniacki. Hingis won six straight games and took just over an hour to beat the 16-year-old Wozniacki, this year's Wimbledon junior champion. ``It was stressful to get here from India,'' said Hingis, who won the Sunfeast Open on Sunday. ``I was able to step up my game even though ...

Top-seeded Martina Hingis defeated Tamarine Tanasugarn 7-5, 6-2 Friday to advance to the Sunfeast Open semifinals. Hingis will play fifth-seeded Sania Mirza of India, who overcame Aravane Rezai 6-4, 7-5. ``Sania has a great forehand that I saw during my only match against her,'' said Hingis, who beat her at the Dubai Open in February. The other semifinal will feature qualifier Iroda Tulyaganova against Olga Poutchkova. Tulyaganova rallied from a ...

It was surprising enough that Martina Hingis exited the U.S. Open in the second round Thursday night. Even more stunning? Who beat her _ and how easily. Hingis, the five-time Grand Slam champion back on tour after a three-year retirement, lost 6-2, 6-4 to 112th-ranked Virginie Razzano of France in the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Hingis came into the day with a 44-14 mark this season, with none of the losses to anyone ranked ...

MONTREAL (CP) _ Martina Hingis is the only familiar face left in the singles draw at the Rogers Cup. The former world no. 1 from Switzerland ousted 11th-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the quarter-finals of the $1.34 million US tournament that has been thinned by withdrawals and injuries. Hingis will face the next best-known player still in the ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) _ Martina Hingis was rarely tested in an easy 6-2, 6-3 victory over Meilen Tu on Tuesday in the Acura Classic. Hingis, the former No. 1, controlled the match with her groundstrokes and took control when she broke Tu's serve in the sixth and eighth games to capture the first set. After missing most of the past three seasons with ankle and foot ...

By Stephen Wilson LONDON (AP) _ After four days without a significant upset, four top players were eliminated at Wimbledon on Friday _ including former champion Martina Hingis. Hingis, the 1997 winner who is in the midst of a comeback after three years off the tour, squandered a 3-0 lead in the third set and fell 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 to ...

By Steven Wine LONDON (AP) _ Even by the standards of tradition-rich Wimbledon, Martina Hingis' approach is old-fashioned. For starters, she somehow strikes the ball without a grunt. Rather than swing from the heels, she creates improbable angles to loop, bunt and slice shots that wind up being fielded on several hops by a ball kid. Finesse ...