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Who is Martina Hingis?

Martina Hingis was born September 30th, 1980 in Kosice, Slovakia. She is a tennis champion who won 5 singles Gram Slams, and 9 Womens and 1 Mixed Doubles Grand Slams. When interviewed in the U.S. early in her career, she balked at comparisons to Tiger Woods, finding herself superior for the reason: Maybe I have accomplished a bit more at a younger age. At the time she had a case. She was named after tennis All Time Great Martina Navratilova and started playing tennis at age 2. By 12 Hingis was the youngest player to win a juniors Grand Slam, by 14 she entered the professional circuit, and by 16 she was the youngest player to reach the number 1 ranking. In 1996 she was the youngest Wimbledon winner in history (age 15) in Womens Doubles and by her first Australian Open win, she was the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in over a century. 1997 was her banner year in which she held the number 1 ranking and won 3 singles Grand Slams. In 1998 she won all 4 Womens Doubles Grand Slams as only the 4th person in history to do so. What changed for Hingis, was womens tennis. At an average height of 5 foot 7 in. (1.7 m) and normal musculature, the rise of towering female power players like the Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport eclipsed her. The new game simply overpowered Hingises strategic skills, tactical ingenuity and overall shot making abilities. As a result of this seismic shift, injury, and a positive drug test for cocaine Hingis went into retirement for the second time in November, 2007.