Yep, it's nice for Hingis to have come back and found a way to play and to win in doubles, both Women's doubles and Mixed doubles. Congrats to her! Indeed, I believe she cherishes and appreciates her comeback success in tennis even more than those early days in her career when she was #1 in singles for a time and battling to stave off the juggernaut of the Williams sisters.
Cool to see so many past champions still playing and winning after all these years, including Roger, Rafa, Serena, Venus, and Martina H. I fondly recall exactly twenty years ago this September when Martina Hingis played the young gazelle, Venus Williams, in the finals of the U.S. Open, inside the newly built Arthur Ashe stadium, no less. This was their 3rd head-to-head meeting at which Martina prevailed for the third time. Venus broke through to win at their 4th meeting at a tournament in Sydney, in 1998. Of their 21 head-to-head matches, they almost break even, with Martina surprisingly coming out on top at 11 wins to 10 for Venus. The last singles match they played against each other was in 2006, a Rome QF with Martina winning in a 3-setter: 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 Fascinating.
Head-to-head against Serena, again surprisingly, Martina almost breaks even, with Serena prevailing at 7 wins to 6 for Martina. And interestingly, Serena and Martina only met in QF (6), SF (5), and F (2).
Martina's overall stats are also impressive because tennis is a tough mental and physical enterprise with many challenges that can keep even great players from winning. That's what makes Roger's, Venus', Rafa's and of course, Serena's continued championship presence at the top of the game so very awe-inspiring.
Martina Hingis has
won 5 Grand slam singles titles vs 7 runner-up placements. That includes 3 Australian Opens, 1 U.S. Open, 1 Wimbledon, and runner-up at the Australian Open 3 times, at the French Open twice, and at the U.S. Open twice. But all of this activity took place
from 1997 to 2002, after which Martina failed to reach the singles finals in Grand slam tournaments, but not for want of trying.
In addition,
Martina has won
12 Grand slam Women's doubles titles vs 3 runner-ups; and she's now with this latest win,
6 and 0 in Grand slam Mixed doubles championship wins! Her Women's doubles activities in Grand slam finals took place from 1996 to 2002, and then from 2014 - 2016. She won her first Grand slam Mixed doubles title in 2006 with Mahesh Bhupathi, at the Australian Open. She returned to winning Grand slam Mixed doubles titles in 2015 and 2016 with partner, Leander Paes. She won the Wimbledon Mixed doubles title this year with her latest partner, Jamie Murray of Great Britain. In Women's doubles Grand slams, Martina has lately won with Sania Mirza of India. Over her career, Martina has also played Women's doubles Grand slams with Flavia Pennetta, Anna Kournikova, Mary Pierce, Jana Novotna, Mirjana Lucic, Natasha Zvereva, and Helena Sukova. In 2016 at the Summer Olympics in Rio, Martina won the silver medal in Women's doubles with Timea Bacsinsky. Martina's overall career stats including Grand slams, WTA circuit & other tournaments: 43 titles, 25 runner-ups; and Women's doubles career: 60 titles, 22 runner-ups (not including Mixed doubles, Olympics, or team events).
If not for Serena, Venus would have won many more Wimbledon titles and Grand slams. Meanwhile, Serena has won Wimbledon 7 times, and has achieved a record 23 Grand slam titles (after surpassing Steffi Graf's 22 Grand slam wins). And it's Venus who has been Serena's inspiration, motivation, and role model. After winning the French Open in 2016 and now Wimbledon, it will be interesting to see how many slams and how many Wimbledon titles Muguruza will win in her burgeoning career. This Wimbledon is a good start. And of course both of her Grand slam victories were won against each of the Williams sisters, who are tough to beat.
Novak & Serena dancing at 2015 Champions dinner
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Venus, as always, is so regal in her demeanor. She slam-dunked some very weird questions. What a classy champion, and a classy lady Venus is!!! 
