|residence= Trubbach, Switzerland,
Wesley Chapel, Florida, USA
|datebirth= September 30, 1980
|placebirth= Košice, Slovakia
|height= 170 cm (5 ft 6½ in)
|weight= 59 kg (130 lb)
|turnedpro= 1994
|retired= 2002; Comeback in 2006
|plays= Right; Two-handed backhand
|careerprizemoney= $19,290,490 (4th in all-time rankings)
|singlesrecord= 514-115
|singlestitles= 41
|highestsinglesranking= No. 1 (March 31, 1997)
|AustralianOpenresult= '''W''' (1997, 1998, 1999)
|FrenchOpenresult= F (1997, 1999)
|Wimbledonresult= '''W''' (1997)
|USOpenresult= '''W''' (1997)
|doublesrecord= 275-50
|doublestitles= 36
|highestdoublesranking= No. 1 (June 8, 1998)
|updated= August 21, 2006
}}
'''Martina Hingis''' (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 won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, including holding all these for a calendar Grand Slam in 1998. She set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both of her ankles forced her to withdraw from professional tennis at the relatively young age of 22.
On November 29, 2005, after several surgeries and long recuperations, the 25-year-old Hingis announced that she would return to the WTA tour, starting her professional comeback at a low-key tournament in Gold Coast, Australia on January 2006. Nine months into her comeback, Hingis has climbed to No. 9 in the world rankings and won her first return title at the tier 1 tournament in Rome
She is currently dating fellow tennis player Radek Stepanek.http://www.teamwta.com/content/view/180/117/
Childhood and early career
Hingis was born to two accomplished tennis players: a Czech mother, Melanie Molitorová, and a Slovak father, Karol Hingis. Molitorová once ranked No. 10 among women in Czechoslovakia. Her father is a tennis trainer in Košice. They named their daughter 'Martina' (originally '''Martina Hingisová - Molitorová''') after Martina Navrátilová. Hingis' parents divorced when she was a young girl. She moved with her mother to Moravia for a short period, then to Switzerland.
Hingis began hitting tennis balls 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
