Learn the story of the athlete who inspired Roger in tennis and why it ended in controversy.
Tennis has curious and remarkable stories, and one of them comes from the hand of Martina Hingis. The Swiss of Czechoslovak origin is officially the sports figure with the most Grand Slam wins, even surpassing Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
And his talent was seen from an early age, since At the age of 15 he was already playing professionally and at the age of 16 he won the Australian Open to become number one in the world (1997). They even gave him a Porsche, but he wasn’t old enough to drive.
From then on he continued winning Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon and the US Open, plus 13 trophies in that category in doubles and 7 in mixed doubles, making a total of 25.
The lawsuit that changed Martina Hingis’ career
Such was the level of Martina Hingis, that even Roger Federer himself played with her and praised her saying that “Martina was partly the one who showed me how everything was done. I have always been a fan of hers and always will be.”
Despite that, the physicist did not accompany her and for a particular reason she had to undergo surgery twice, at the age of 22. It is about the sneakers, which determined that the tennis player and her entourage started a trial with the Italian firm Sergio Tacchini, for 40 million dollars.
The The accusation indicated that Tacchini gave her “defective” and unusable shoes to compete, according to Hingis herself.. But finally she ended up being sued by the sports brand, adding to ligament problems that forced her to retire from tennis in 2003.
But the bad news for the Swiss did not end there. He decided to come back from retirement, although nothing would be the same in 2007, where a positive doping test for cocaine At Wimbledon he was banned from the circuit for two years.
“I tested positive, but I never took drugs and I feel 100 percent innocent.”said Martina Hingis, who after that opted for definitive retirement, marred by controversies in a career that promised to be legendary.
