Martina Hingis Comeback: ‘I Was Thinking About It the Past 5 Years’

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Published: July 25, 2013

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She still has that captivating smile along with an engaging personality that makes you feel as if you and she are the only two people in the room, but before we could really catch up, the rain-delay was lifted and it was time for Martina Hingis to get back to the office—the tennis court.

Our conversation was to be continued, and hoping that I was patient, Hingis warmly expressed, “You’re going to have to wait a while, because I don’t play until the fourth and fifth matches.”

I’m thought to myself: Because it's Hingis, I’ll wait.

The Slovakian-born and Switzerland-raised tennis prodigy was the former World No. 1 in singles and doubles, and after a six-year absence since her retirement from the WTA in 2007, she is making a highly anticipated comeback in doubles at the Southern California Open this Monday.

Hingis also just headed the 2013 class of Hall of Fame inductees, so how else would I reply to her quip about waiting until the bitter end of her World TeamTennis (WTT) match?



I did so the only way I knew how when a former World No. 1 and Hall of Famer asks you to wait—“OK, talk to you after,” I said as she transformed back into player mode.

Done seeking shelter from the rain inside the $20 million hallways of the Randall’s Island tennis center—New York City’s largest tennis facility and home to the John McEnroe Tennis Academy—Hingis, myself and the hundreds of fans made our way back to the show court.

Tuesday night featured a WTT match between the hometown New York Sportimes and Hingis’ first-place, playoff-bound Washington Kastles.

Hingis alongside Kastles teammate Frederik Nielsen notched a 5-3 mixed doubles win over New York's Kveta Peschke and Robert Kendrick. Peschke then teamed up with Anna-Lena Groenefeld, and they stunned Hingis and Anast...
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