Coordinates	39°46′5.88″N86°9′29.52″N
Name	Iva Majoli
Country
Residence	Zagreb, Croatia & Bradenton, Florida U.S.
Birth date	August 12, 1977
Birth place	Zagreb, Croatia
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	August, 1991
Retired	June, 2004
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	$4,405,867
Singlesrecord	316–225
Singlestitles	8 (2 ITF)
Highestsinglesranking	No. 4 (February 5, 1996)
Australianopenresult	QF (1996)
Frenchopenresult	W (1997)
Wimbledonresult	QF (1997)
Usopenresult	4R (1994)
Doublesrecord	99–124
Doublestitles	1
Highestdoublesranking	No. 24 (August 21, 1995)
Updated	}}

Iva Majoli Marić (Iva Majoli) (born August 12, 1977 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won eight singles titles and one women's doubles title during her career.

Career

Majoli turned professional in 1991 at the age of 14. At age 19, Majoli won the 1997 French Open singles title, defeating Martina Hingis in straight sets. Most had expected Hingis, 16 years old, to win the title. Majoli, however, played aggressively from the baseline and ended Hingis's 37-match winning streak and handed Hingis her first sound defeat in a final of a grand slam. Her adept ground-strokes kept Hingis moving, therefore Hingis was not allowed to control the rallies.

Majoli played her best tennis as a teenager, reaching her career high ranking of World No. 4 in 1996. After a quarterfinal appearance at the 1998 French Open, she failed to reach the fourth round of any subsequent Grand Slam singles tournament. Her game steadily declined, with her ranking plummeting to World No. 131 in 2003. In the final years of her tennis career, Majoli suffered from a series of injuries – most notably a shoulder injury – and struggled to play consistently. Her jet-setting lifestyle, well documented by the press, may have contributed. Not living up to high expectations after her French Open title, she has been called yet another "One Slam Wonder."

In 2002, Majoli, ranked World No. 58, defeated Patty Schnyder, ranked World No. 30, in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. The victory increased Majoli's ranking to World No. 33. She reached another final shortly thereafter, prompting some to believe that she was climbing back to the top of the game. This, however, was wishful thinking, as Majoli's ranking then plummeted even further. On June 12, 2004, Majoli announced her retirement from the game.

In 2006, she announced that she was engaged and pregnant with her first child. She married a local businessman, Stipe Marić, on September 9, 2006, with Jennifer Capriati and Mary Pierce attending the wedding. She gave birth to her daughter Mia on October 31, 2006.

In 2007, Majoli participated in the second season of the Croatian version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. Her partner was Marko Herceg. She was eliminated in the fourth episode.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1–0)

Titles (11)

Singles (10)

Legend

Grand Slam (1)

WTA Championships (0)

Tier I (3)

Tier II (4)

Tier III (0)

Tier IV & V (0)

ITF Titles (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	June 21, 1992	St. Simons, Georgia, USA	Clay	Beverly Bowes-Hackney	7–6(7), 7–6(5)
2.	July 19, 1992	Evansville, Indiana, USA	Hard	Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–1
3.	October 8, 1995		Carpet (I)	Mary Pierce	6–4, 6–4
4.	October 15, 1995		Hard (I)	Gabriela Sabatini	6–4, 7–6(4)
5.	February 4, 1996		Carpet (I)	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–4, 6–1
6.	February 25, 1996	Essen, Germany	Carpet (I)	Jana Novotná	7–5, 1–6, 7–6(6)
7.	February 23, 1997	Hannover, Germany	Carpet (I)	Jana Novotná	4–6, 7–6(2), 6–4
8.	May 4, 1997	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	6–3, 6–2
9.	June 8, 1997		Clay	Martina Hingis	6–4, 6–2
10.	April 21, 2002		Clay	Patty Schnyder	7–6(5), 6–4

Doubles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	February 11, 2001		Carpet	Virginie Razzano	Kimberly Po & Nathalie Tauziat	6–3, 7–5

Runner-ups (13)

Singles (9)

1994: Osaka (lost to Manuela Maleeva-Fragnière)

1994: Barcelona (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1994: Essen (lost to Jana Novotná)

1995: Barcelona (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Paris (lost to Julie Halard-Decugis)

1996: Leipzig (lost to Anke Huber)

2000: Kuala Lumpur (lost to Henrieta Nagyová)

2001: Quebec (lost to Meghann Shaughnessy)

2002: Bol (lost to Åsa Svensson)

Doubles (4)

1995: Linz (with Petra Schwarz) (lost to Meredith McGrath and Nathalie Tauziat)

1995: Barcelona (with Mariaan de Swardt) (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Larisa Neiland)

1995: Rogers Cup (with Martina Hingis) (lost to Gabriela Sabatini and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy)

1997: Hamburg (with Ruxandra Dragomir) (lost to Anke Huber and Mary Pierce)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

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A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

External links

Majoli announces retirement

More about her French Open Win

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Coordinates	39°46′5.88″N86°9′29.52″N
Name	Martina Hingis
Nickname	''Swiss Miss''''Chucky''
Country	Switzerland
Residence	Hürden, Switzerland
Birth date	September 30, 1980
Birth place	Košice, (then Czechoslovakia, now in modern Slovakia)
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1994
Retired	2007
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	US$20,130,657(7th in all-time rankings)
Singlesrecord	548–133 (80.5%)
Singlestitles	43 WTA, 2 ITF
Highestsinglesranking	No. 1 (31 March 1997)
Australianopenresult	W (1997, 1998, 1999)
Frenchopenresult	F (1997, 1999)
Wimbledonresult	W (1997)
Usopenresult	W (1997)
Othertournaments	Yes
Wtachampionshipsresult	W (1998, 2000)
Olympicsresult	2R (1996)
Doublesrecord	286–54 (84.1%)
Doublestitles	37 WTA, 1 ITF
Highestdoublesranking	No. 1 (8 June 1998)
grandslamsdoublesresults	9
australianopendoublesresult	W (1997, 1998, 1999, 2002)
frenchopendoublesresult	W (1998, 2000)
wimbledondoublesresult	W (1996, 1998)
usopendoublesresult	W (1998)
| mixed	yes
mixedtitles	1
australianopenmixedresult	W (2006)
Updated	8 June 2011 }}

Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in 2002 at the age of 22. After several surgeries and long recuperations, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006. She then climbed to world number 6 and won three singles titles. On 1 November 2007, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis after testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon in 2007. She denied using the drug, but decided not to appeal the imminent ban.

In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by ''Time''.

Childhood and early career

Hingis was born in Košice, (then part of Czechoslovakia, now in modern Slovakia), to accomplished tennis players Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis. Molitorová was a professional tennis player, who was once ranked tenth among women in Czechoslovakia, and was determined to develop Hingis into a top player as early as pregnancy. Her father was ranked as high as nineteenth in the Czechoslovakian tennis rankings. Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother relocated around a year later to Trübbach in Switzerland. Her father, who continued to live in Košice as a tennis coach, said in 1997 that he had seen little of his daughter after the split.

Hingis began playing tennis 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 1994, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and reached the final of the US Open.

She made her professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. She ended the year ranked World No. 87, and in January 1995, she became the youngest player to win a match at a Grand Slam tournament when she advanced to the second round of the Australian Open.

Personal life

Hingis has dated Spanish golf player Sergio García and British footballer Sol Campbell. She was briefly engaged to Czech tennis player Radek Štěpánek, but split from him in August 2007. She has also dated former tennis players Magnus Norman, Ivo Heuberger and Julian Alonso. In March 2010, Hingis announced that she was engaged to marry Andreas Bieri, a Swiss attorney, but the engagement was later broken off.

On 10 December 2010 she married showjumper, 24 year-old Thibault Hutin, in an intimate ceremony in Paris.

Grand Slam success and period of dominance

In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months. She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany. She reached the singles quarterfinals at the 1996 Australian Open and the singles semifinals of the 1996 US Open. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica Seles in the final at Oakland. Hingis then lost to Graf at the year-end WTA Tour Championships.

In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed World No. 1 women's tennis player. She started the year by winning the warm-up tournament in Sydney. She then became the youngest Grand Slam singles winner in the 20th century by winning the Australian Open at age 16 years and 3 months (beating former champion Mary Pierce in the final). In March, she became the youngest top ranked player in history. In July, she became the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon since Lottie Dod in 1887 by beating Jana Novotná in the final. She then defeated another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final of the US Open. The only Grand Slam singles title that Hingis failed to win in 1997 was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli.

In 1998, Hingis won all four of the Grand Slam women's doubles titles, only the fourth in women's tennis history to do so, (the Australian Open with Mirjana Lučić and the other three events with Novotná), and she became only the third woman to simultaneously hold the No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. She also retained her Australian Open singles title by beating Conchita Martínez in straight sets in the final. Hingis, however, lost in the final of the US Open to Lindsay Davenport. Davenport ended an 80-week stretch Hingis had enjoyed as the No. 1 singles player in October 1998, but Hingis finished the year by beating Davenport in the final of the WTA Tour Championships.

1999 saw Hingis win her third successive Australian Open singles crown as well as the doubles title (with Anna Kournikova). She then reached the French Open final and was three points away from victory in the second set before losing to Steffi Graf. During the match, Hingis had infuriated an already partisan crowd by arguing with the umpire over several line calls. In the second set, she crossed to the other side of the net to inspect her own ball mark, thereby incurring a mandatory one-point penalty. She was also booed for taking a bathroom break early in the final set, and twice delivering underhand serves. After the match, Hingis rushed from the court in tears, and only returned to the court for the trophy ceremony after being comforted by her mother . Following the French Open, Martina revealed at Wimbledon that her mother was no longer her coach. After a shock first-round 6–2, 6–0 loss to Jelena Dokić at Wimbledon, Hingis bounced back to reach her third consecutive US Open final, where she lost to Serena Williams. Hingis won a total of seven singles titles that year and reclaimed the No. 1 singles ranking. She also reached the final of the WTA Tour Championships, where she lost to Lindsay Davenport.

In 2000, Hingis again found herself in both the singles and doubles finals at the Australian Open. This time, however, she lost both. Her three-year hold on the singles championship ended when she lost to Davenport. Later, Hingis and Mary Pierce, her new doubles partner, lost to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs. Hingis captured the French Open women's doubles title with Pierce and produced consistent results in singles tournaments throughout the year. She reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before losing to Venus Williams. Although she did not win a Grand Slam singles tournament, she kept the year end No. 1 ranking because of nine tournament championships, including the WTA Tour Championships where she won the singles and doubles titles.

Injuries and hiatus from tennis

In 2001, Switzerland, with Hingis and Roger Federer on its team, won the Hopman Cup. Hingis was undefeated in singles during the event, defeating Tamarine Tanasugarn, Nicole Pratt, Amanda Coetzer, and Monica Seles.

Hingis reached her fifth consecutive Australian Open final in 2001, defeating both of the Williams sisters en route, before losing to Jennifer Capriati. She briefly ended her coaching relationship with her mother Melanie early in the year but had a change of heart two months later just before the French Open. 2001 was a her least successful year in several seasons, with only three tournament victories in total. She lost her No. 1 ranking for the last time (to Jennifer Capriati) on October 14, 2001. In that same month, Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle.

Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002 (again teaming with Anna Kournikova) and reached a sixth straight Australian Open final in singles, again facing Capriati. Hingis led by a set and 4–0 and had four match points but lost 4–6, 7–6, 6–2. In May 2002, she needed another ankle ligament operation, this time on her left ankle. After that, she continued to struggle with injuries and was not able to recapture her best form.

In February 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis, due to her injuries and being in pain. "I want to play tennis only for fun and concentrate more on horse riding and finish my studies" In several interviews, she indicated she wanted to go back to her country and coach full time.

During this segment of her tennis career, Hingis won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles events. She held the World No. 1 singles ranking for a total of 209 weeks (fourth most following Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Chris Evert). In 2005, ''Tennis'' magazine put her in 22nd place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.

Return to the game

2005

In February 2005, Hingis made an unsuccessful return to competition at an event in Pattaya, Thailand, where she lost to Germany's Marlene Weingärtner in the first round. After the loss, she claimed that she had no further plans for a comeback.

Hingis, however, resurfaced in July, playing singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in World Team Tennis and notching up singles victories over two top 100 players and shutting out Martina Navratilova in singles on 7 July. With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on 29 November her return to the WTA Tour in 2006.

2006

At the Australian Open, Hingis lost in the quarterfinals to second-seeded Kim Clijsters. However, Hingis won the mixed doubles title with Mahesh Bhupathi of India. This was her first career Grand Slam mixed doubles title and fifteenth overall (5 singles, 9 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles).

The week after the Australian Open, Hingis defeated World No. 4 Maria Sharapova in the semifinals of the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo before losing in the final to World No. 9 Elena Dementieva. Hingis competed in Dubai then, reaching the quarter-finals before falling to Sharapova. At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Hingis defeated World No. 4 Lindsay Davenport in the fourth round before again losing to Sharapova in the semifinals.

At the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals, beating World No. 18 Flavia Pennetta, and subsequently won the tournament with wins over Venus Williams in the semifinals and Dinara Safina in the final. This was her 41st Women's Tennis Association tour singles title and first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals of the French Open before losing to Kim Clijsters.

At Wimbledon, Hingis lost in the third round to Ai Sugiyama.

Hingis's return to the US Open was short lived, however, as she was upset in the second round by World No. 112 Virginie Razzano of France.

In her first tournament after the US Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian Olga Poutchkova in the final. The following week in Seoul, Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the second round to Sania Mirza.

Hingis qualified for the year-ending WTA Tour Championships in Madrid as the eighth seed. In her round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine Henin and Amélie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova.

Hingis ended the year ranked World No. 7. She also finished eighth in prize money earnings (U.S.$1,159,537). Hingis too ranked as number 7 on the Annual Top Google News Searches in 2006.

2007

At the Australian Open, Hingis won her first three rounds without losing a set before defeating China's Na Li in the fourth round. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to Kim Clijsters. This was the second consecutive year that Hingis had lost to Clijsters in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the third time in the last five Grand Slam tournaments that Clijsters had eliminated Hingis in the quarterfinals.

Hingis won her next tournament, the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, defeating Ana Ivanović in the final. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event.

A hip injury that troubled her at the German Open caused her to withdraw from the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she was the defending champion, and the French Open, the only important singles title that eluded her.

In her first round match at Wimbledon, Hingis saved two match points to defeat British wildcard Naomi Cavaday, apparently not having fully recovered from the hip injury that prevented her from playing the French Open. In the third round, Hingis lost to Laura Granville of the United States, and stated afterwards she should not have entered the tournament.

Hingis's next tournament was the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open, which she had won ten years ago for the first time. Hingis lost in the third round to Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka. Hingis did not play any tournaments after the China Open, as she was beset by injuries for the rest of the year.

In November, Hingis admitted that she was under investigation for testing positive for cocaine. She decided to retire. Hingis was handed a 2 year ban by the ITF for testing positive at Wimbledon, back dated to October at the start of 2008.

But Hingis maintained her innocence, saying, "I have tested positive but I have never taken drugs and I feel 100 percent innocent." She also said, "I would personally be terrified of taking drugs. When I was informed [about the test] I was shocked and appalled." She is not planning to contest the positive drug test because it could take years. "Because of my age and my health problems, I have also decided to retire from professional tennis." The drug test results were released to Hingis after her third round loss to Laura Granville at Wimbledon, with both "A" and "B" urine samples failing the tests.

Retirement

Hingis played an exhibition match at the Liverpool International tournament on 13 June 2008. Although this event was a warm-up for Wimbledon, it was not part of the WTA Tour. This allowed Hingis to participate without breaching the rules of her ban. In a rematch of their 1997 Wimbledon final, Hingis defeated Jana Novotná.

In 2009 Hingis partook in the BBC's dancing competition, Strictly Come Dancing. She was the bookies favourite for the competition, but she went out in the first week after performing a Waltz and a Rumba. Despite vowing to win the competition, she promised to apply the same gritty approach to the dance show that had taken her to five grand slams on the tennis court. "Everything I do I do to win. I am very competitive."

2010

At the start of the year Hingis defeated former world number one Lindsay Davenport, and hinted at a possible return to tennis. In February, Martina announced she has committed to a full year with the World TeamTennis Tour in 2010. She had previously played for World Team Tennis in 2005 to assist her first comeback. Sparking thoughts that she was trying to come back to the WTA tour, she committed to playing at the Nottingham Masters. On 5 May 2010, it was announced that Anna Kournikova would reunite with her doubles partner Hingis. Kournikova was participating in competitive tennis for the first time in seven years, in the Invitational Ladies Doubles event at Wimbledon. Hingis also confirmed that she would play at the Tradition-ICAP Liverpool International championship in June 2010, preceding Wimbledon, before playing in the Manchester Masters after Wimbledon. Liverpool like the Nottingham and Manchester Masters are organised by her management company Northern Vision. At the Nottingham Masters, Hingis faced Michaëlla Krajicek (twice), Olga Savchuk and Monika Wejnert. Hingis won just once in the event, against Wejnert. After the Nottingham event Billie Jean King stated that she believed that Hingis may return to the WTA Tour on the doubles circuit, after competing in the WTT.

During Wimbledon in an interview with doubles partner Anna Kournikova, Hingis stated that she will not be returning to the tour; she has had her comeback before and it was fun.

2011

On 5 June, Hingis, in team with Lindsay Davenport, won the Roland Garros Women's Legends title, defeating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna in the final, 6–1, 6–2. Before facing Navratilova/Novotna, Hingis and Davenport won two round robin matches in the tournament: first against Gigi Fernandez / Natasha Zvereva (6:1 6:3), and then in the next match they prevailed over Andrea Temesvari / Sandrine Testud 6:3 6:7 and 10:0 in the Super tie-break. On 3 July, Hingis partnering Lindsay Davenport won the Wimbledon Ladies' Invitation Doubles title defeating Martina Navratilova and Jana Novotna in the final, 6–4, 6–4.

Playing style

Hingis was renowned for her cerebral approach to the game of tennis and for her technical skills, enabling her to produce a wide array of shots with finesse. She lacked the power possessed by many of her contemporaries; therefore, she relied on low error-rates and good shot selection to keep opponents off-balance. She often used change of direction and pace to catch opponents off guard and sharp angles to open up the court. She was also well known for her ability to break long rallies by hitting accurate drop shots and coming to the net, where she was a skilled volleyer. A signature play of Hingis was the drop shot followed by a lob, often resulting in an easy volley or overhead to finish the point. Hingis often hit the ball extremely early by standing close to the baseline (or inside it) in order to take reaction time away from her opponent because she did not have sufficient power to hit winners past her opponents.

Hingis's strongest groundstroke was her two-handed backhand, which had an extremely low error-rate and great variety. Her backhand down-the-line was among her signature shots and often the shot she chose to hit with greater pace to surprise opponents during a rally.

Controversies

As a teenager, Martina Hingis was also well known for usually being outspoken. During her career, Hingis has made a number of statements about her fellow players that have subsequently become the focus of attention and the source of controversy, such as:

Referring to Amélie Mauresmo's muscular build on the eve of their 1999 Australian Open final, Hingis told reporters, "She's half a man." When asked in the late 1990s how she felt about the budding rivalry between herself and the then-up-and-coming Anna Kournikova, Hingis responded, "What rivalry? I win all the matches." After the Williams sisters (Venus and Serena) had complained of discrimination against them, Hingis told ''Time'' magazine in 2001: "Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'" At the peak of the Williams sisters' and Hingis' competitive and fierce rivalry, Hingis stated in a press conference during the 1999 US Open referring to the sisters' remarks, "They always have big mouths. They always talk a lot. It's happened before, so it's gonna happen again. I don't really worry about that." On the long-dominant player, Steffi Graf, Hingis said, "Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played. She is old now. Her time has passed." (Hingis made this comment in 1998 while Graf was on an injury-related hiatus from tennis, and before she lost against the German player in the 1999 French Open final). Responding in a 1999 press conference on why she terminated her doubles partnership with former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotná, Hingis remarked, "She's old and slow."

Career statistics

Singles performance timeline

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A = did not participate in the tournament

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played

²If ITF women's circuit (Hardcourt: 12–2; Carpet: 6–1) and Fed Cup (10–0) participations are included, overall win-loss record stands at 548–133.

Grand Slam singles finals

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Records

These records were attained in Open Era of tennis.

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By winning Wimbledon doubles title in 1996 with Helena Suková became youngest doubles winner at 15 years, 282 days and youngest ever Grand Slam winner in the Open era. By winning Australian singles title in 1997, became youngest winner there in tennis history at 16 years and 3 months.

By defeating Monica Seles 6–2, 6–1 in 1997 at Key Biscayne, ascended the no. 1 spot as the youngest ever in tennis history.

By winning the US Open against Venus Williams in 1997, Hingis contended all Grand Slam tournament finals that year; second youngest winner in the US Open at 16 years, 11 months and 8 days. Won the Australian and US Open in 1997 without losing a set. In 1997, from Sydney to the final of Roland Garros created a 37-match winning streak, best from 1995 until present. By winning the US Open doubles title in 1998 with Jana Novotná, completed a doubles Grand Slam third in the Open Era.

Held simultaneously the no. 1 position for singles and doubles in 1998.

Most successful player to play the Toray Pan-Pacific Tournament with 5 wins in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, and reached 8 finals in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007.

Ended her career with 103 top-10 wins (behind Lindsay Davenport at 129), 43 singles titles, 37 doubles titles, 1 mixed title, and 209 weeks at no.1 (4th behind Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Chris Evert).

Awards and accolades

1992

Swiss Champion together with the tennisclub TC Schützenwiese (from Winterthur) in the Interclub-Championsships.

1994 ITF Junior Girls Singles World Champion. Won Wimbledon junior singles title (youngest junior champion there at 13 years, 276 days). Won French Open junior singles and doubles titles. Runner-up at US Open junior singles tournament. 1995 ''Tennis'' magazine. Female Rookie of the Year. 1996 Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour Most Improved Player. WTA Tour Most Impressive Newcomer Award. 1997 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.

Selected as the Player of the Year by the WTA Tour, the International Tennis Federation, and ''Tennis'' magazine.

BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. 1998 First female athlete to be on the cover of the American men's magazine GQ in June 1998. WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Jana Novotná. 1999 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Anna Kournikova. 2000 One of five female tennis players named to the 2000 Forbes magazine Power 100 in Fame and Fortune list at No. 51. WTA Tour Diamond ACES Award. 2002 Elected to Tour Players' Council. 2006 World Comeback of the Year Award at the 2006 Laureus World Sports Awards. 2007 Surpassed US$20 million in career earnings at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, the fourth female player to do so (after Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Lindsay Davenport). She was fourth in the all-time money list at $20,033,600 after the tournament. Meredith Inspiration Award for inspiring women around the world – Family Circle Cup/''Family Circle'' magazine Others

Except for the French Open, has won every major WTA Tour singles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments, WTA Tour Championships, and Tier I tournaments).

Except for Berlin, has won every major WTA Tour doubles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments, WTA Tour Championships, and Tier I tournaments).

1999 French Open final (Graf d. Hingis 4–6, 7–5, 6–2) was voted by worldwide fans as the Greatest Match in 30-Year History of the Tour (online voting spanned two months and included a ballot of 16 memorable matches).

To celebrate the WTA Tour's 30th Anniversary, attended on-court ceremony at 2003 season-ending WTA Tour Championships that honored 13 world No. 1 champions (past and present), and founding members of the tour.

See also

List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

References

External links

ITF Press release: Decision in the case of Martina Hingis, with link to PDF document

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Coordinates	39°46′5.88″N86°9′29.52″N
Name	Monica Seles Szeles Mónika / Моника Селеш
Country	(1988–1992)(1992–1993)(from 1995)
Residence	Sarasota, Florida, USA
Birth date	December 02, 1973
Birth place	Novi Sad, Serbia (former Yugoslavia)
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1989
Retired	2008
Plays	Left-handed; two-handed forehand and backhand
Careerprizemoney	US$14,891,762
Tennishofyear	2009
Tennishofid	monica-seles
Singlesrecord	595–122 (82.98%)
Singlestitles	53
Highestsinglesranking	No. 1 (March 11, 1991)
Australianopenresult	W (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996)
Frenchopenresult	W (1990, 1991, 1992)
Wimbledonresult	F (1992)
Usopenresult	W (1991, 1992)
Othertournaments	Yes
Wtachampionshipsresult	W (1990, 1991, 1992)
Olympicsresult	20px Bronze (2000)
Doublesrecord	89–45
Doublestitles	6
Highestdoublesranking	No. 16 (April 22, 1991)
Grandslamsdoublesresults	yes
Australianopendoublesresult	SF (1991, 2001)
Frenchopendoublesresult	3R (1990)
Wimbledondoublesresult	QF (1999)
Usopendoublesresult	QF (1999)
Updated	January 31, 2009 }}

}} Monica Seles (, ''Monika Seleš'' , , born December 2, 1973) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, winning eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and one while a citizen of the United States.

She became the youngest-ever champion at the 1990 French Open at the age of 16. She was the World No. 1 player in the women's game during 1991 and 1992, but in 1993 she was forced out of the sport for more than two years following an on-court attack in which a man stabbed her in the back with a 9-inch-long knife. She enjoyed some success after returning to the tour in 1995, including a Grand Slam singles title at the 1996 Australian Open, but was unable to consistently reproduce her best form. She played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open, but her official retirement announcement was not issued until February 2008.

In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by ''Time''.

Early life

Seles was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia in an ethnic Hungarian family. Her parents' names are Eszter and Károly and she has an older brother, Zoltán. When she entered the sport she began playing tennis at the age of five, coached by her father. Károly Szeles, who was a professional cartoonist, drew pictures for her to make her tennis more fun. He is also responsible for developing her two-handed style for both the forehand and backhand. In 1985 at the age of 11, she won the Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, and caught the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. In 1986, the Seles family moved from SFR Yugoslavia to the United States, and Seles enrolled at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where she trained for two years.

Seles played her first professional tournament in 1988 at the age of 14. The following year, she joined the professional tour full-time and won her first career title at Houston in May 1989, where she beat the soon-to-be-retired Chris Evert in the final. A month later, Seles reached the semifinals of her first Grand Slam singles tournament at the French Open, where she lost to World No. 1 Steffi Graf, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3. Seles finished her first year on the tour ranked World No. 6.

1990–92

Seles won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 1990 French Open. Facing World No. 1 Steffi Graf in the final, Seles saved four set points in a first set tiebreaker, which she won 8–6, and went on to take the match in straight sets. In doing so, she became the youngest-ever French Open singles titlist at the age of 16 years, 6 months. She also won the 1990 year-ending Virginia Slims Championships, defeating Gabriela Sabatini in five sets. She finished the year ranked World No. 2.

1991 was the first of two years in which Seles dominated the women's tour. She started out by winning the Australian Open in January, beating Jana Novotná in the final. In March, she replaced Graf as the World No. 1. She then successfully defended her French Open title, beating the former youngest-ever winner, Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, in the final. Unable to play at Wimbledon, Seles took a six-week break, suffering from shin splints. But she was back in time for the US Open, which she won by beating Martina Navratilova in the final, her third grand slam title of the year, to cement her position at the top of the world rankings. She also won the year-ending Virginia Slims Championships, defeating Navratilova in four sets.

1992 was an equally dominant year. Seles successfully defended her titles at the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. She also reached the final at Wimbledon but lost to Graf 6–2, 6–1. Two opponents (including Navratilova in the semifinals) had strongly complained about Seles's grunting.

From January 1991 through February 1993, Seles won 22 titles and reached 33 finals out of the 34 tournaments she played. She compiled a 159–12 win-loss record (92.9% winning percentage), including a 55–1 win-loss record in Grand Slam tournaments. In the broader context of her first four years on the circuit (1989–1992), Seles had a win-loss record of 231–25 (90.2% winning percentage) and collected 30 titles.

1993 stabbing

Seles was the top women's player heading into 1993, having won the French Open three consecutive years and both the US Open and Australian Open in consecutive years. In January 1993, Seles defeated Graf in the final of the Australian Open, which to date was her third win in four Grand Slam finals against Graf.

However on April 30 during a quarterfinal match with Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg in which Seles was leading 6–4, 4–3, Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, ran from the middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games and stabbed Seles with a boning knife between her shoulder blades, to a depth of 1.5 cm (0.59 inches). She was quickly rushed to a hospital. Although her physical injuries took only a few weeks to heal, she did not return to competitive tennis for more than two years. Initially there was speculation that the attack may have been politically motivated because of Seles' Serbian roots. She was known to have received death threats in relation to the ongoing conflict in her native Yugoslavia. However, German authorities were quick to rule this out describing her attacker as confused and possibly mentally disturbed.

Parche was charged following the incident but was not jailed because he was found to be psychologically abnormal and was instead sentenced to two years' probation and psychological treatment. The incident prompted a significant increase in the level of security at tour events; at the French Open, held less than a month after the attack, the trophy presentation ceremony took place on the court rather than in the stands amongst spectators as it had done previously. At that year's Wimbledon the players seats were positioned with their backs to the umpires chair rather than the spectators, although some players including Graf moved the chair back to its original position. Seles however disputed the effectiveness of these measures. She was quoted in 2011 as saying "From the time I was stabbed, I think the security hasn’t changed". Seles vowed never to play tennis in Germany again, disenchanted by the German legal system. "What people seem to be forgetting is that this man stabbed me intentionally and he did not serve any sort of punishment for it... I would not feel comfortable going back. I don't foresee that happening."

Young Elders, a band from Melbourne, Australia sent their song called "Fly Monica Fly" to Seles while she was recuperating from the 1993 stabbing incident. She later said that the song provided inspiration to her at that time, and Seles subsequently met the band (who later changed their name to The Monicas) following her victory at the Australian Open in 1996.

The stabbing incident is also the subject of Dan Bern's 1998 tribute to Seles, ''Monica''. Additionally, Detroit dreampop band Majesty Crush paid tribute with "Seles" from the 1993 album ''Love-15''.

In the fourth series of his British sketch comedy show ''A Bit of Fry & Laurie'', Hugh Laurie referenced the Seles stabbing incident when he performed an original song entitled "I'm in Love with Steffi Graf" in which he pretended to be an obsessed fan of Graf's who was willing to "kill to make her happy, or just to get her through the early rounds." The song was performed in the style of a rock ballad.

Comeback

Seles returned to the tour in August 1995 and won her first comeback tournament, the Canadian Open, beating Amanda Coetzer in the final 6–0, 6–1. The following month at the US Open, Seles lost the final to Graf 6–7, 6–0, 3–6 after failing to capitalize on a set point in the first set. In January 1996, Seles won her fourth Australian Open, beating Anke Huber in the final. But this was her last Grand Slam title. Seles struggled to recapture her best form on a consistent basis. Her difficulties were compounded by having to cope with her father and long-term coach Károly being stricken by cancer and eventually dying in 1998. Seles was the runner-up at the US Open to Graf again in 1996. Her last Grand Slam final came at the French Open in 1998 (a few weeks after her father's death). She defeated World No. 3 Jana Novotná in three sets and World No. 1 Martina Hingis in straight sets before losing to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the three-set final.

While she did not reach another Grand Slam singles final, she did consistently reach the quarterfinal and semifinal stages in those tournaments and was a fixture in the WTA Tour's top 10. In 2002, her last full year on the tour, she finished the year ranked World No. 7 and defeated Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Jennifer Capriati, Justine Henin, Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters, and Lindsay Davenport and reached at least the quarterfinals at each Grand Slam tournament.

After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1994, Seles helped the U.S. team win the Fed Cup in 1996, 1999, and 2000. She also won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Hiatus

In the spring of 2003, Seles sustained a foot injury. She was forced to withdraw during the second set of a match against Nadia Petrova at the Italian Open. Then a couple of weeks later and still injured, she lost in straight sets to the same player in the first round of the2003 French Open. It was the only time she ever lost a first-round match at a Grand Slam. She never again played an official tour match.

In February 2005, Seles played two exhibition matches in New Zealand against Navratilova. Despite losing both matches, she played competitively and announced that she could return to the game early in 2006; however, she did not do so. She played three exhibition matches against Navratilova in 2007. On April 5, she defeated Navratilova in Houston, Texas on clay 7–6 (1), 2–6, 10–1 (tiebreak). On September 14, Seles defeated Navratilova on an indoor court in New Orleans, Louisiana 6–2, 6–4. On September 16, she defeated Navratilova on clay in Bucharest, Romania 3–6, 6–3, 10–7 (tiebreak).

In December 2007, Seles said to the press that Lindsay Davenport's successful return to the tour had inspired her to consider her own limited comeback to play Grand Slam tournaments and the major warm-up events for those tournaments. However, on February 14, 2008, Seles announced her official retirement from professional tennis.

In January 2009, Seles was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame

Career assessment

Seles was listed as the 13th greatest player of all time (men and women) by (U.S.) ''Tennis'' magazine and was also one of 15 women named by Australian ''Tennis'' magazine as the greatest champions of the last 30 years (players were listed chronologically).

Seles's career was affected by the stabbing incident; her trajectory was indicative of continuing future greatness. During the height of her career (1990 French Open through the 1993 Australian Open), she won 8 of the 11 Grand Slam singles tournaments she contested. Until her loss to Martina Hingis at the 1999 Australian Open, Seles had a perfect record at the event (33–0), which is the longest undefeated streak for this tournament (although Margaret Court won 38 consecutive matches there from 1960 to 1968 after losing a match in 1959). It also marked her first defeat in Australia, having won the Sydney tournament in 1996. Seles was the first female tennis player to win her first six Grand Slam singles finals: 1990 French Open, 1991 Australian Open, 1991 French Open, US Open, 1992 Australian Open, and 1992 French Open. Seles was also the first female player since Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling in 1937 to win the women's singles title three consecutive years at the French Open. (Chris Evert, however, won the title the four consecutive times she played the tournament: 1974, 1975, 1979, and 1980; in 2007, Justine Henin won her third consecutive French Open singles title.) With eight Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday, Seles holds the record for most Grand Slam singles titles won as a teenager.

Shortly after her retirement, ''Sports Illustrated'' writer Jon Wertheim summed up her later career: }}

Seles was a popular player, winning the inaugural Sanex Hero of the Year award in 2002. This award was voted by fans around the world. She was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.

Humanitarian work

Monica Seles is the Goodwill Ambassador of IIMSAM, the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM) where she joins people like Diego Maradona, Tushar Gandhi, Sanjay Dutt, Carolina Herrera and Barack Obama's family to make Spirulina, a key driver to eradicate malnutrition, achieve food security and bridge the health divide in order to secure the UN Millennium Development Goals with a special priority for the developing and the least developed countries.

Autobiography

On April 21, 2009, Seles released her memoir ''Getting A Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self'' which chronicles her bout with depression and food addiction after her stabbing, her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, her journey back to the game and a life beyond tennis.

Career statistics

Records

These records were attained in the Open Era of tennis. width=50 1990–93 1991–93 1990–92 1990

width=200	Grand Slam	Years ||	Record accomplished	Player tied
Australian Open and French Open	|	Simultaneous holder of 3 consecutive Australian Open and French Open singles titles	Stands alone
Australian Open	|	3 consecutive wins	Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Steffi Graf, Martina Hingis
French Open	|	3 consecutive wins	Justine Henin
French Open	|	Youngest ever champion (16 years old)	Stands alone

See also

List of female tennis players

References

External links

BBC Sport profile

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Coordinates	39°46′5.88″N86°9′29.52″N
Name	Martina NavratilovaMartina Navrátilová
Country	(1973–1975) (1975–present)
Residence	Sarasota, Florida, USA
Birth date	October 18, 1956
Birth place	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1975
Retired	1994–1999, 2006
Plays	Left-handed; one-handed backhand
Careerprizemoney	US$21,626,089(6th in all-time rankings)
Tennishofyear	2000
Tennishofid	martina-navratilova
Singlesrecord	1,442–219 (86.8%)
Singlestitles	167 (all-time record for men or women)
Highestsinglesranking	No. 1 (July 10, 1978)
Australianopenresult	W (1981, 1983, 1985)|
Frenchopenresult	W (1982, 1984)|
Wimbledonresult	W (1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990)|
Usopenresult	W (1983, 1984, 1986, 1987)
Othertournaments	Yes
Wtachampionshipsresult	W (1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986(1), 1986(2))(all-time record)
Doublesrecord	747–143 (83.9%)
Doublestitles	177 (all-time record for men or women)
Highestdoublesranking	No. 1 (September 10, 1984)
Grandslamsdoublesresults	Yes
Australianopendoublesresult	W (1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989)
Frenchopendoublesresult	W (1975, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988)
Wimbledondoublesresult	W (1976, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986)
Usopendoublesresult	W (1977, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990)
Othertournamentsdoubles	Yes
Wtachampionshipsdoublesresult	W (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986(2), 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991)(all-time record)
mixed	Yes
mixedtitles	15
australianopenmixedresult	W (2003)
frenchopenmixedresult	W (1974, 1985)
wimbledonmixedresult	W (1985, 1993, 1995, 2003)
usopenmixedresult	W (1985, 1987, 2006)
Updated	July 5, 2009 }}

Martina Navratilova (, born October 18, 1956 in Prague) is a Czech American tennis player and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."

Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. Navratilova is one of just three women to have accomplished a career Grand Slam in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam "boxed set") a record she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart. She holds the open era record for most singles titles (167) and doubles titles (177). She recorded the longest winning streak in the open era (74 consecutive matches) and three of the six longest winning streaks in the women's open era. Navratilova, Margaret Court, and Maureen Connolly share the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam singles titles (six). Navratilova reached 11 consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, second all-time to Steffi Graf's 13. In women's doubles, Navratilova and Pam Shriver won 109 consecutive matches and won all four Grand Slam titles in 1984. Also the pair set an all time record of 79 titles together and tied Louise Brough Clapp's and Margaret Osborne duPont's record of 20 Grand Slam women's doubles titles as a team. In addition she won the season ending WTA Tour Championships a record 8 times and made the finals a record 14 times and won the doubles title a record 11 times. Navratilova is the only man or woman to have won 8 different tournaments at least 7 times.

Originally from Czechoslovakia, she was stripped of her citizenship when, in 1975 at the age of 18, she asked the United States for political asylum and was granted temporary residency. At the time, Navratilova was told by the Czechoslovakian Sports Federation that she was becoming too Americanized and that she should go back to school and make tennis secondary. Navratilova became a US citizen in 1981, but on January 9, 2008, she had her Czech citizenship restored. She stated she has not renounced her American citizenship nor does she plan to do so and that the restoration of her Czech citizenship was not politically motivated.

Navratilova is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy. She also serves as the Health and Fitness Ambassador for AARP in an alliance created to help AARP's millions of members lead active, healthy lives.

Early life and tennis career

Navratilova was born Martina Šubertová in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents divorced when she was three, and in 1962 her mother Jana married Miroslav Navrátil, who became her first tennis coach. Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix "ová"), thus becoming Martina Navrátilová (). Her father Mirek remarried and divorced. When she was eight, he committed suicide. In 2008, Navratilova's mother died of emphysema, aged 75. Navratilova has a sister, Jana, and an older paternal half-brother.

In 1972 at the age of 15, Navratilova won the Czechoslovakia national tennis championship. In 1973, aged 16, she made her debut on the United States Lawn Tennis Association professional tour but did not turn professional until 1975. She won her first professional singles title in Orlando, Florida in 1974 at the age of 17. Upon arriving in the United States, Navratilova first lived with former Vaudeville actress, Frances Dewey Wormser, and her husband, Morton Wormser, a tennis enthusiast.

Navratilova was the runner-up at two Grand Slam singles tournaments in 1975. She lost in the final of the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley and in the final of the French Open to Chris Evert. After losing to Evert in the semifinals of that year's US Open, the 18-year-old Navratilova went to the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City and informed them that she wished to defect from Communist Czechoslovakia. Within a month, she received a green card.

Navratilova won her first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in 1978, where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 ranking for the first time. She successfully defended her Wimbledon title in 1979, again beating Evert in the final, and retained her World No. 1 ranking. In 1981, Navratilova won her third Grand Slam singles title by defeating Evert in the final of the Australian Open. Navratilova also reached the final of the US Open, where she lost a third set tiebreak to Tracy Austin. Navratilova won both Wimbledon and the French Open in 1982.

After adopting basketball player Nancy Lieberman's exercise plan and using graphite racquets, Navratilova became the most dominant player in women's tennis. After losing in the fourth round of the first Grand Slam event of 1983, the French Open, she captured the year's three remaining Grand Slam titles (the Australian Open was held in December at that time). Navratilova's loss at the French Open was her only singles defeat during that year, during which she established an 86–1 record. Her winning percentage was the best ever for a post-1968 professional tennis player. During 1982, 1983, and 1984, Navratilova lost a total of only six singles matches.

Navratilova won the 1984 French Open, thus holding all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously. Her accomplishment was declared a "Grand Slam" by Philippe Chatrier, president of the International Tennis Federation. Many tennis observers, however, insisted that it was not a true Grand Slam because the titles had not been won in a single calendar year. Navratilova extended her Grand Slam singles tournament winning streak to a record-equalling six following wins at Wimbledon and the US Open. She entered the 1984 Australian Open with a chance of winning all four titles in the same year. In the semifinals, however, Helena Suková ended Navratilova's 74-match winning streak (a record for a professional) 1–6, 6–3, 7–5.

A left-hander, Navratilova won all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles in 1984, partnering right-handed Pam Shriver, a tall and talented player whose most noted stroke was a slice forehand, a shot virtually unheard of in the game today. This was part of a record 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and 1985. (Navratilova was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s.) From 1985 through 1987, Navratilova reached the women's singles final at all 11 Grand Slam tournaments held during those three years, winning six of them. From 1982 through 1990, she reached the Wimbledon final nine consecutive times. She reached the US Open final five consecutive times from 1983 through 1987 and appeared in the French Open final five out of six years from 1982 through 1987.

17-year old German player Steffi Graf emerged on the scene in 1987 when she beat Navratilova in the final of the French Open. Navratilova defeated Graf in the 1987 Wimbledon and US Open finals (and at the US Open became only the third player in the open era to win the women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at the same event). Graf's consistent play throughout 1987, however, allowed her to obtain the World No. 1 ranking before the end of the year. Graf eventually broke Navratilova's records of 156 consecutive weeks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player but did not break Navratilova's record 167 singles titles as Graf reached 107. In 1988, Graf won all four Grand Slam singles titles, beating Navratilova 5–7, 6–2, 6–1 in the Wimbledon final along the way.

In 1989, Graf and Navratilova met in the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open, with Graf winning both encounters in three sets. Despite the age difference between the two players, Navratilova won 9 of the 18 career singles matches with Graf and 5 of the 9 Grand Slam singles matches with her. At age 34, Navratilova defeated Graf the last time they played in a Grand Slam event in the semifinals of the 1991 US Open 7–6(2), 6–7(6), 6–4.

Navratilova's final Grand Slam singles triumph was in 1990. In the final, the 33-year old Navratilova swept Zina Garrison 6–4, 6–1 to claim a record-breaking ninth Wimbledon singles crown. Though that was her last Grand Slam singles title, Navratilova reached two additional Grand Slam singles finals during the remainder of career. In 1991, she lost in the US Open final to the new World No. 1 Monica Seles after defeating Graf in a semifinal. And then in 1994, at the age of 37, Navratilova reached the Wimbledon final, where she lost in three sets to Conchita Martínez. Soon after, she retired from full-time competition on the singles tour. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.

In 2000, Navratilova returned to the tour to play doubles events, while rarely playing singles. In her first singles performance in eight years, at Eastbourne in 2002, she beat World No. 22 Tatiana Panova before losing in the next round to Daniela Hantuchová in three sets. In 2003, she won the mixed doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, partnering Leander Paes. This made her the oldest ever Grand Slam champion (aged 46 years, 8 months). The Australian Open victory made her the third player in history to complete a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles by winning the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. The Wimbledon win allowed her to equal Billie Jean King's record of 20 Wimbledon titles (in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles combined) and extended her overall number of Grand Slam titles to 58 (second only to Margaret Court, who won 62). Despite being criticized for receiving a wildcard, Navratilova won a singles match in straight sets at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and 8 months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the open era. She then lost her second round match with Gisela Dulko in three sets.

On July 6, 2006, Navratilova played her last career match at Wimbledon, losing in the third round of mixed doubles to the eventual titleists, Israel's Andy Ram and Russia's Vera Zvonareva. Earlier that day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, also the eventual titleists. Navratilova capped off her career by winning the mixed doubles title at the 2006 US Open with Bob Bryan, her 41st Grand Slam doubles title (31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles) and 177th overall. At the time, she was just over a month away from her 50th birthday.

Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the open era) and 177 doubles titles. Her last title in women's doubles came on August 21, 2006, at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, where she partnered with Nadia Petrova. Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles: 9 at Wimbledon, 4 at the US Open, 3 at the Australian Open, and 2 at the French Open. Her overall record in 67 Grand Slam singles events was 306–49 .862 (120–14 at Wimbledon, 89–17 at the US Open, 51–11 at the French Open, and 46–7 at the Australian Open). She won at least one tour event for 21 consecutive years and won the singles and doubles at the same event a record 84 times. Her career singles match win total of 1,442 is the most during the open era.

In September 1992, Navratilova played Jimmy Connors in the third Battle of the Sexes tennis match at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Connors was allowed only one serve per point and Navratilova was allowed to hit into half the doubles court. Connors won 7–5, 6–2.

She played for the Boston Lobsters in the World TeamTennis pro league through the 2009 season.

Personal life

In 1981, shortly after becoming a United States citizen, Navratilova came out publicly about her sexual orientation. During the early 1980s, she was involved with author Rita Mae Brown. From 1984 to 1991, Navratilova had a long-term relationship with partner Judy Nelson. Their split in 1991 included a much-publicized legal wrangle. Navratilova was featured in a WITA (Women's International Tennis Association) calendar, shot by Jean Renard with her Wimbledon trophies and Nelson's children in the background.

In 1985, Navratilova released an autobiography, co-written with ''New York Times'' sports columnist George Vecsey, entitled ''Martina'' in the U.S. and ''Being Myself'' in the rest of the world. She had earlier co-written a tennis instruction book with Mary Carillo in 1982 entitled ''Tennis My Way''. She later wrote three mystery novels with Liz Nickles: ''The Total Zone'' (1994), ''Breaking Point'' (1996), and ''Killer Instinct'' (1997). Navratilova's most recent literary effort was a health and fitness book entitled ''Shape Your Self,'' which came out in 2006.

On April 7, 2010, Navratilova announced that she was being treated for breast cancer. A routine mammography in January 2010 had revealed that she had a ductal carcinoma in situ in her left breast, which she was informed of in February, and in March she had the tumour surgically removed; she received radiation therapy in May.

In December 2010, Navratilova was hospitalized after developing high altitude pulmonary edema while attempting a climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

Activism and politics

When not playing tennis, Navratilova is involved with various charities that benefit animal rights, underprivileged children, and gay rights. She filed a lawsuit against Amendment 2, a 1992 ballot proposition in Colorado designed to deny gays and lesbians legal protection from discrimination. In the same year, she spoke before the National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights.

In 2000, she was the recipient of National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay and lesbian activist/lobbying group.

A vegetarian, Navratilova has appeared in ad campaigns for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In an April 2006 interview, however, she said she had recently begun eating fish again because she found it hard to get enough protein while on the road; this made her no longer a vegetarian, but a pescetarian; nevertheless in 2008 she claimed to be vegetarian.

She has spoken out on a number of volatile political issues, including tort/litigation reform, but perhaps her most consistent theme—aside from gay and lesbian rights—has been her unstinting opposition to Communism, and unrelenting opposition to the former Eastern Bloc power structure that she believes compelled her to flee her native Czechoslovakia. She has denounced the Soviet Union's control over Czechoslovakia, maintaining that she refuses to speak Russian to this day because of the Soviet Union's former hegemony over Eastern Europe.

''"Whenever people go into politics and they try to say that Communism was a good thing, I say, 'Go ahead and live in a Communist country then, if you think it's so great.' "''

Navratilova was a guest on CNN's ''Connie Chung Tonight'' show on July 17, 2002. During the show, Chung quoted a German newspaper which quoted Navratilova as saying: ''"The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another. The Republicans in the U.S. manipulate public opinion and sweep controversial issues under the table. It's depressing. Decisions in America are based solely on the question of how much money will come out of it and not on the questions of how much health, morals or environment suffer as a result."''

Navratilova said that the remarks referred to what she perceived as a trend of centralization of government power and a loss of personal freedom. In the discussion that followed, Chung stated: ''"Can I be honest with you? I can tell you that when I read this, I have to tell you that I thought it was un-American, unpatriotic. I wanted to say, go back to Czechoslovakia. You know, if you don't like it here, this a country that gave you so much, gave you the freedom to do what you want."''

Navratilova responded, ''"And I'm giving it back. This is why I speak out. When I see something that I don't like, I'm going to speak out because you can do that here. And again, I feel there are too many things happening that are taking our rights away."''

Martina was quoted in 2007 as being ashamed of the US under President George W. Bush because unlike the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, Bush was elected.

Career statistics

Open era records

width=70 1983–1988 1978–1990 1983–1984 1984–1987 1982–1987 1982–1990 1978–1994 1978–1990 1983, 84, 86, 90 1987 1983(2), 84, 86, 87, 90 1983 1978–03 1975–91 1975–91 1978–92 1978–92 1978–92 1978–92 1978–93 1978–93 1975–90 1978–93 1978–93 1976–85 1978–93 1979–93 1975–96 1978–89 1975–89

width=230	Grand Slam tournament	Years ||	Record accomplished	Player tied
1983 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles	1983 Wimbledon – 1988 Australian Open	|	19 consecutive Grand Slam women's singles tournament semifinals	Stands alone(1)
Wimbledon Championships	Wimbledon	|	Winner of a Grand Slam singles tournament in three decades	Serena Williams
Wimbledon – US Open	|	6 consecutive Grand Slam singles tournament titles	Margaret Court
French Open	|	List of French Open singles finalists during the open era#Most consecutive finals in the open era 2>4 consecutive singles finals	Chris Evert Steffi Graf
Wimbledon	|	6 consecutive singles titles	Stands alone
Wimbledon	|	List of Wimbledon singles finalists during the open era#Most consecutive finals in the open era 2>9 consecutive singles finals	Stands alone
Wimbledon	|	List of Wimbledon singles finalists during the open era#Ladies>12 singles finals overall	Stands alone
Wimbledon	|	9 singles titles overall	Stands alone
Wimbledon	|	List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Winning a Grand Slam singles tournament without losing a set (open era)>Won Wimbledon four times in straight sets	Stands alone
U.S. Open (tennis)	U.S. Open	|	Won singles, doubles and mixed doubles at same Grand Slam event	Doris HartMargaret Court
Grand Slam tournament	|	List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Winning a Grand Slam singles tournament without losing a set (open era)>Won six Grand Slam tournaments in straight sets	Serena Williams
Grand Slam tournament	|	List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Winning a Grand Slam singles tournament without losing a set (open era)>Won a slam in straight sets twice in the same calendar year	Billie Jean King Steffi Graf Martina Hingis Serena Williams Venus Williams Justine Henin
Grand Slam tournament	|	Career Box Set having won all four Majors at singles, same sex doubles and mixed doubles	Doris Hart Margaret Court
Grand Slam tournament	|	31 Combined Doubles titles (mixed, same sex)	Stands alone
Grand Slam tournament	|	20 Doubles titles (same sex)	Louise Brough Clapp Margaret Osborne duPont
WTA Tour Championships	|	8 Won	Stands alone
WTA Tour Championships	|	14 Finals	Stands alone
WTA Tour Championships	|	11 Won (doubles)	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	Ameritech Cup>Chicago	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	AEGON Classic>Eastbourne	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	:fr:Tournoi de Dallas>Dallas	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	:fr:Tournoi de Washington>Washington	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	East West Bank Classic>Los Angeles	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	:fr:Tournoi d'Orlando>Orlando	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	:fr:Tournoi de Houston>Houston	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	Porsche Tennis Grand Prix>Filderstadt & Stuttgart	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	Bank of the West Classic>Stanford & Oakland	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	5 Wins single tournament US Indoors	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	Medibank International>Sydney	Stands alone
WTA Tour	|	:fr:Tournoi de Boston>Boston	Stands alone

⁽¹⁾Chris Evert reached 34 non-consecutive Grand Slam singles semifinals from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open, although she did not play 14 Grand Slam singles tournaments during that time.

Awards

ITF World Champion 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986.

WTA Player of the Year 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986.

Recognition

''Tennis'' magazine has selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005. Tennis historian and journalist Bud Collins has called Navratilova "arguably, the greatest player of all time."

Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book ''The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century'', named her as the second best female player of the 20th century, directly behind Steffi Graf.

In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by ''Time''.

I'm a Celebrity

In November 2008, Martina Navratilova appeared on the UK's ITV series Series 8 of ''I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!''; she finished runner-up to Joe Swash.

See also

Evert–Navratilova rivalry

Graf–Navratilova rivalry

List of Eastern Bloc defectors

References

Further reading

Video

''Wimbledon 1978 Final – Navratilova vs. Evert (2003)'' starring: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Standing Room Only, DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005, Run Time: 102 minutes, ASIN: B000A343R8

External links

BBC profile

ESPN.com article

outsports.com interview

Martina Navratilova's Health and Fitness Articles for AARP

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Name	Jana Novotná
Country	(1987–1992) (1993–present)
Residence	Brno, Czech Republic
Birth date	October 02, 1968
Birth place	Brno, Czechoslovakia
Height
Weight
Turnedpro	1987
Retired	1999
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Careerprizemoney	$ 11,249,284
tennishofyear	2005
tennishofid	jana-novotna
Singlesrecord	571–225 (72.11%)
Singlestitles	24 (2 ITF)
Highestsinglesranking	No. 2 (7 July 1997)
Australianopenresult	F (1991)
Frenchopenresult	SF (1990, 1996)
Wimbledonresult	W (1998)
Usopenresult	SF (1994, 1998)
Othertournaments	Yes
Wtachampionshipsresult	W (1997)
Doublesrecord	697–153
Doublestitles	76 (6 ITF)
Highestdoublesranking	No. 1 (27 August 1990)
Grandslamsdoublesresults	8
Australianopendoublesresult	W (1990, 1995)
Frenchopendoublesresult	W (1990, 1991, 1998)
Wimbledondoublesresult	W (1989, 1990, 1995, 1998)
Usopendoublesresult	W (1994, 1997, 1998)
othertournamentsdoubles	Yes
wtachampionshipsdoublesresult	W (1995, 1997)
mixed	Yes
mixedtitles	4
mixedrecord	4–1
australianopenmixedresult	W (1988, 1989)
frenchopenmixedresult	2R (1992)
wimbledonmixedresult	W (1989)
usopenmixedresult	W (1988)
Updated	19 October 2009 }}

}} }} Jana Novotná () (born 2 October 1968 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments. Novotná also won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.

Career

Novotná turned professional in 1986. In the early years of her career, she was known primarily for her success as a doubles player. In the early-1990s, Novotná began to have success in singles once four-time Grand Slam singles champion Hana Mandlíková became her coach and life partner at the time.

Novotná reached her first Grand Slam singles final in 1991 at the Australian Open, where she lost to Monica Seles.

Two years later, Novotná reached her first singles final at Wimbledon, where she faced Steffi Graf. After losing a tight first set, Novotná took a 6–7, 6–1, 4–1, 40–15 lead. With victory seemingly in her grasp, she lost her nerve and allowed Graf to come back into the game. Graf took the next five games and the title. During the prize presentation ceremony, a distraught Novotná burst into tears and cried on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder. The duchess comforted her.

It took four years for Novotná to reach another Wimbledon final. In 1997, she faced Martina Hingis, and lost in three sets. However, Novotná won the 1997 WTA Tour Championships and finished the year ranked a career-high World No. 2 in singles.

Novotná's moment of Wimbledon glory finally arrived in 1998. After defeating Venus Williams in a close quarterfinal, Novotná avenged the previous year's loss by ousting Hingis in a semifinal and veteran Nathalie Tauziat in the final. She became the oldest first-time Grand Slam singles winner in the Open Era at age 29 years and nine months. This record would be eclipsed by Francesca Schiavone in 2010 when she won the French Open at 29 years and eleven months.

She won 12 Grand Slam women's doubles titles (four at Wimbledon, three at the French Open, three at the US Open, and two at the Australian Open) and four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles (two at the Australian Open, one at Wimbledon, and one at the US Open). She was 11 times the year end top ranked doubles player.

Novotná was a member of the Czechoslovakian team that won the Fed Cup in 1988. At the Olympic Games, Novotná was a women's doubles silver medalist in 1988 and 1996 and a singles bronze medalist in 1996.

She won titles on all four surfaces and crossed the $10 million mark in career prize money in 1998, the fifth player to reach the milestone. She won more than 500 career singles matches, the 15th woman in the Open Era to accomplish the feat.

Novotná was named the 1998 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Martina Hingis, the 1997 International Tennis Federation Doubles Team of the Year with Lindsay Davenport, the 1996 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, with Gigi Fernández in 1991 and in 1989 and 1990 with Helena Suková.

Novotná retired from the professional tour in 1999. During her 14-year career, she won 100 titles (24 in singles and 76 in doubles). She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.

Awards and recognitions

1989: WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Helena Suková

1990: WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Helena Suková

1991: WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Gigi Fernández

1996: WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

1997: ITF World Champions (Women's Doubles) with Lindsay Davenport

1998: WTA Doubles Team of the Year with Martina Hingis

2005: International Tennis Hall of Fame

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 4 finals (1 title, 3 runner-ups)

Doubles: 23 finals (12 titles, 11 runner-ups)

Mixed Doubles: 5 finals (4 titles, 1 runner-up)

Olympic finals

Singles

Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's singles

width="80"	Outcome
	1996||	1996 Summer Olympics>Atlanta	Hard	Mary Joe Fernandez	7–6(8), 6–4

Doubles: 2 finals (0 titles, 2 runner-ups)

Tennis at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Women's DoublesTennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles

width="100"	Outcome
	1988||	1988 Summer Olympics>Seoul	Hard	Helena Suková	Zina Garrison Pam Shriver	4–6, 6–2, 10–8
bgcolor="silver"	Silver	1996||	1996 Summer Olympics>Atlanta	Hard	Helena Suková	Gigi Fernández Mary Joe Fernandez	7–6(6), 6–4

Year-End Championships finals

Singles: 1 final (1 title, 0 runner-ups)

Doubles: 7 finals (2 titles, 5 runner-ups)

{|class="sortable wikitable" |- |width="100"|Outcome |width="50"|Year |width="150"|Location |width="75"|Surface |width="200"|Partner |width="200"|Opponents in the final |width="150"|Score in the final |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1991 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Gigi Fernández || Martina Navratilova
Pam Shriver || 4–6, 7–5, 6–4 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1992 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Larisa Neiland || Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Helena Suková || 7–6(4), 6–1 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1993 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Larisa Neiland || Gigi Fernández
Natasha Zvereva || 6–3, 7–5 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1994 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Arantxa Sánchez Vicario || Gigi Fernández
Natasha Zvereva || 6–3, 6–7(4), 6–3 |- | bgcolor="98FB98"|Winner || 1995 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Arantxa Sánchez Vicario || Gigi Fernández
Natasha Zvereva || 6–2, 6–1 |- | bgcolor="FFA07A"|Runner-up || 1996 || New York City || Carpet (I) || Arantxa Sánchez Vicario || Lindsay Davenport
Mary Joe Fernandez || 6–3, 6–2 |- | bgcolor="98FB98"|Winner || 1997 || New York City (2) || Carpet (I) || Lindsay Davenport || Alexandra Fusai
Nathalie Tauziat || 6–7(5), 6–3, 6–2 |- |}

Titles (100)

Singles (24)

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Legend

Grand Slam (1)

WTA Championships (1)

Tier I (2)

Tier II (11)

Tier III (5)

Tier IV (2)

Tier V (2)

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Titles by Surface

Hard (5)

Clay (4)

Grass (2)

Carpet (13)

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No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	4 December 1988		Hard		7–5, 6–4
2.	28 May 1989		Clay	Patricia Tarabini	6–1, 6–2
3.	12 August 1990		Hard		6–4, 6–4
4.	13 January 1991		Hard	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–4, 6–2
5.	24 February 1991		Hard (I)	Anne Smith	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
6.	14 February 1993		Carpet (I)	Kimiko Date	6–3, 6–2
7.	24 October 1993		Carpet (I)	Anke Huber	6–2, 6–4
8.	2 October 1994		Carpet (I)	Mary Pierce	7–5, 6–1
9.	23 October 1994	Brighton, UK	Carpet (I)	Helena Suková	6–7(4), 6–3, 6–4
10.	30 October 1994		Carpet (I)	Iva Majoli	6–2, 6–4
11.	26 February 1995		Carpet (I)	Barbara Rittner	6–7(6), 6–3, 6–4
12.	26 May 1996		Clay	Magdalena Maleeva	4–6,6–4, 6–3
13.	20 October 1996		Carpet (I)	Martina Hingis	6–2, 6–2
14.	3 November 1996		Carpet (I)	Jennifer Capriati	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
15.	17 November 1996		Carpet (I)	Steffi Graf	6–4, retired
16.	25 May 1997	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Monica Seles	7–5, 6–1
17.	28 September 1997	Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (I)	Amanda Coetzer	6–2, 4–6, 6–3
18.	2 November 1997		Carpet (I)	Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 6–4
19.	23 November 1997		Carpet (I)	Mary Pierce	7–6(4), 6–2, 6–3
20.	1 March 1998	Linz, Austria	Hard (I)	Dominique Van Roost	6–1, 7–6(2)
21.	21 June 1998		Grass	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	6–1, 7–5
22.	5 July 1998		Grass	Nathalie Tauziat	6–4, 7–6(2)
23.	12 July 1998		Clay	Sandrine Testud	6–3, 6–0
24.	21 February 1999		Carpet (I)	Venus Williams	6–4, 6–4

Doubles (76)

''Grand slam events in boldface.''

1987: Strasbourg (with Catherine Suire)

1987: San Diego (with Catherine Suire)

1987: Hamburg (with Claudia Kohde-Kilsch)

1988: Oklahoma City (with Catherine Suire)

1988: Rome (with Catherine Suire)

1988: Hamburg (with Tine Scheuer-Larsen)

1988: Montreal (with Helena Suková)

1988: Mahwah (with Helena Suková)

1989: Brisbane (with Helena Suková)

1989: Boca Raton (with Helena Suková)

1989: Key Biscayne (with Helena Suková)

1989: Barcelona (with Tine Scheuer-Larsen)

1989: Wimbledon (with Helena Suková)

1989: Zurich (with Helena Suková)

1990: Brisbane (with Helena Suková)

1990: Sydney (with Helena Suková)

1990: Australian Open (with Helena Suková)

1990: Indian Wells (with Helena Suková)

1990: Boca Raton (with Helena Suková)

1990: Key Biscayne (with Helena Suková)

1990: French Open (with Helena Suková)

1990: Wimbledon (with Helena Suková)

1990: Manhattan Beach (with Gigi Fernández)

1991: Brisbane (with Gigi Fernández)

1991: Chicago (with Gigi Fernández)

1991: Hamburg (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1991: French Open (with Gigi Fernández)

1991: Washington (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1991: Zurich (with Andrea Strnadová)

1991: Filderstadt (with Martina Navratilova)

1991: Philadelphia (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Brisbane (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Wesley Chapel (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Berlin (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Eastbourne (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: San Diego (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Leipzig (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1992: Brighton (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1993: Osaka (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1993: Paris (with Andrea Strnadová)

1993: Key Biscayne (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1993: Rome (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1993: Toronto (with Larisa Savchenko Neiland)

1994: Delray Beach (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1994: Wesley Chapel (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1994: Hamburg (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1994: San Diego (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1994: US Open (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1995: Sydney (with Lindsay Davenport)

1995: Australian Open (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1995: Delray Beach (with Mary Joe Fernandez)

1995: Key Biscayne (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1995: Eastbourne (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1995: Wimbledon (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1995: WTA Tour Championships (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Paris (with Kristie Boogert)

1996: Key Biscayne (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Hilton Head (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Madrid (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Eastbourne (with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1996: Filderstadt (with Nicole Arendt)

1997: Paris (with Martina Hingis)

1997: Amelia Island (with Lindsay Davenport)

1997: Berlin (with Lindsay Davenport)

1997: US Open (with Lindsay Davenport)

1997: Leipzig (with Martina Hingis)

1997: Chase Championships (with Lindsay Davenport)

1998: Key Biscayne (with Martina Hingis)

1998: French Open (with Martina Hingis)

1998: Eastbourne (with Mariaan de Swardt)

1998: Wimbledon (with Martina Hingis)

1998: Montreal (with Martina Hingis)

1998: US Open (with Martina Hingis)

1999: Key Biscayne (with Martina Hingis)

1999: Hilton Head (with Elena Likhovtseva)

1999: Toronto (with Mary Pierce)

Singles runner-ups (17)

''Grand slam events in boldface.''

1988: Brisbane (lost to Pam Shriver)

1989: Hamburg (lost to Steffi Graf)

1989: Zurich (lost to Steffi Graf)

1991: Australian Open (lost to Monica Seles)

1991: Leipzig (lost to Steffi Graf)

1992: Chicago (lost to Martina Navratilova)

1992: Leipzig (lost to Steffi Graf)

1992: Brighton (lost to Steffi Graf)

1993: Wimbledon (lost to Steffi Graf)

1993: Leipzig (lost to Steffi Graf)

1996: Essen (lost to Iva Majoli)

1997: Hanover (lost to Iva Majoli)

1997: Eastbourne (lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario)

1997: Wimbledon (lost to Martina Hingis)

1998: Hanover (lost to Patty Schnyder)

1998: Hamburg (lost to Martina Hingis)

1998: New Haven (lost to Steffi Graf)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

{|class="wikitable" |- bgcolor="#efefef" ! Tournament !! 1986 !! 1987 !! 1988 !! 1989 !! 1990 !! 1991 !! 1992 !! 1993 !! 1994 !! 1995 !! 1996 !! 1997 !! 1998 !! 1999 !! Career SR |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" |Australian Open | align="center" | NH | align="center" | A | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;" | F | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" | A | align="center" | A | align="center" | A | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" | 0 / 9 |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" |French Open | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:yellow;"|SF | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:yellow;"|SF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;"| 0 / 14 |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" |Wimbledon | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;" | F | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:yellow;"|SF | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;" | F | align="center" style="background:#00ff00;" | W | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" | 1 / 14 |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" |US Open | align="center" | A | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|2R | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|1R | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|4R | align="center" style="background:yellow;" | SF | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:#ffebcd;"|QF | align="center" style="background:yellow;" | SF | align="center" style="background:#afeeee;"|3R | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" | 0 / 13 |- |style="background:#EFEFEF;" |SR | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 2 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 3 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 3 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 3 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |1 / 3 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" |0 / 4 | align="center" style="background:#EFEFEF;" | 1 / 50 |}

NH = tournament not held.

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of Grand Slam singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

WTA Tour career earnings

{| cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" border="1" style="font-size: 95%; border: #aaa solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse;" |- bgcolor="#eeeeee" ! Year !! Grand Slamsingles titles !! WTA singles titles !! Totalsingles titles !! Earnings ($) !! Money list rank |- |align="center"|1986–88 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|439,958 |align="center" |n/a |- |align="center"|1989 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|360,896 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|7 |- |align="center"|1990 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|645,500 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|5 |- |align="center"|1991 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="right"|766,369 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|6 |- |align="center"|1992 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|0 |align="right"|511,184 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|8 |- |align="center"|1993 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|2 |align="center"|2 |align="right"|926,646 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|6 |- |align="center"|1994 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|3 |align="right"|876,119 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|4 |- |align="center"|1995 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|787,936 |align="center" style="background:#F0DC82;"|5 |- |align="center"|1996 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|4 |align="right"|1,354,307 |align="center" style="background:#99ccff;"|3 |- |align="center"|1997 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|4 |align="right"|1,685,115 |align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8;"|2 |- |align="center"|1998 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|4 |align="right"|2,153,800 |align="center" style="background:#99ccff;"|3 |- |align="center"|1999 |align="center"|0 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="right"|741,454 |align="center"| 11 |- !align="center"|Career !align="center"|1 !align="center"|23 !align="center"|24 !align="right"|11,249,284 !align="center" |17 |}

References

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