Martina Hingis
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| Nickname(s) |
Swiss Miss |
| Country |
 Switzerland |
| Residence |
Trübbach, Switzerland,
Wesley Chapel, Florida, U.S. |
| Date of birth |
September 30 1980 (1980--) (age 27) |
| Place of birth |
Košice, Slovakia then CSSR |
| Height |
170 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight |
59 kg (130 lb) |
| Turned Pro |
1994 |
| Retired |
2002; Comeback in 2006 |
| Plays |
Right; Two-handed backhand |
| Career Prize Money |
$20,123,427 (4th in all-time rankings) |
| Singles |
| Career record: |
547-132 |
| Career titles: |
43 WTA, 2 ITF |
| Highest ranking: |
No. 1 (March 31, 1997) |
| Grand Slam results |
| Australian Open |
W (1997, 1998, 1999) |
| French Open |
F (1997, 1999) |
| Wimbledon |
W (1997) |
| U.S. Open |
W (1997) |
| Doubles |
| Career record: |
286-54 |
| Career titles: |
37 WTA, 1 ITF |
| Highest ranking: |
No. 1 (June 8, 1998) |
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Infobox last updated on: August 9, 2007.
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Martina Hingis (pronounced: hɪŋˈɡɪs) (born September 30, 1980 in Košice,
Slovakia) is a former World No. 1
Swiss tennis player. Known as the "Swiss Miss", she has won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, one
Wimbledon, and one US Open).
She has also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed
doubles title. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1 and set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw from professional tennis at the relatively early age of
22.
On November 29, 2005, after several surgeries and long recuperations, the 25-year-old Hingis announced that she would return
to the WTA tour, starting her professional comeback at a low-key tournament
in Gold Coast, Australia in January 2006.
Since then, Hingis has climbed to No. 6 in the world rankings, won three titles (at the Tier I tournament in Rome, the Tier III
tournament in Kolkata, India, and the Tier I tournament in Tokyo), was the runner-up in three tournaments (Tier I tournaments in
Tokyo and Montreal and the Tier III in Gold Coast), and qualified for the 2006 WTA Tour
Championships in Madrid.
She was engaged to fellow tennis player Radek Štěpánek[1][2][3] but they have since split up[4].
She has been coached by her mother, Melanie Molitor, a former tennis pro. However, she currently does not have a coach.
Childhood and early career
Hingis was born to two accomplished tennis players: a Czech mother, Melanie
Molitorová, and a Hungarian-Slovak father living in
Košice (Slovakia), Karol Hingis (Hingis Károly in
Hungarian).[5][6][7] Molitorová once ranked No. 10 among women in
Czechoslovakia. Her father who was rated even number 19[8]
in the tennis rankings of Czechoslovakia is today a tennis trainer in Košice. They named
their daughter 'Martina' (originally Martina Hingisová) after Martina
Navrátilová. Hingis' parents divorced when she was a young girl. She moved with her mother to Moravia for a short period, then to Switzerland.
Hingis began hitting tennis balls 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 was ranked the World No. 1 junior player.
She made her professional debut in October 1994, two weeks after her 14th birthday. In 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.
Hingis was twice rated among FHM magazine's 100 sexiest women, and her championship doubles
partnership with tennis' glamour girl Anna Kournikova (two Grand Slam championships) in
the late 1990s and early-2000s attracted a great deal of attention. They jokingly referred to themselves as "The Spice Girls of
Tennis."
Grand Slam success and period of dominance
In 1996, Hingis became the youngest Wimbledon champion when she teamed with Helena
Suková 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
U.S. Open. Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian
Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica
Seles 6-2, 6-0 in the final at Oakland. Hingis then lost to Graf 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 6-0 at the year-end WTA Tour Championships.
Hingis's best year was 1997 when she was 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 U.S. 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
[1], (the
Australian Open with Mirjana Lucic 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 U.S. 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 teammate
Anna Kournikova). She then reached the French Open final and was three points away from
victory in the second set against Steffi Graf, but ended up losing 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. During the match, Hingis had infuriated an
already partisan crowd by arguing with the umpire over several line calls (crossing the net in one instance), taking a bathroom
break early in the final set, and twice delivering a rare underhand serve on match point. In tears after the match, Hingis was
comforted by her mother as she returned to the court for the trophy ceremony. After a shock first-round 6-2, 6-0 loss to
Jelena Dokic at Wimbledon, Hingis bounced back to reach her third consecutive U.S. 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
Davenport 6-4, 6-2.
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 6-1, 7-5. Later, Hingis and Pierce,
her new doubles partner, lost to Lisa Raymond and Renee
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 quarter final at Wimbledon and played great tennis but was beaten by Venus
Williams in a thrilling match. 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, where she lost to
Jennifer Capriati 6-4, 6-3. She briefly ended her coaching relationships with her
mother Melanie early in the year but had a change of heart two months later just before the French Open. Hingis underwent surgery on her right ankle in October 2001.
Coming back from injury, Hingis won the Australian Open doubles final at the start of 2002
(again teaming with 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 2003, at the age of 22, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis. In several interviews, she indicated she was attending
an advanced English course at AKAD in Zürich to broaden her career opportunities.
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 Weingartner 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 Navrátilová in singles on July 7th. With these promising results behind her, Hingis
announced on November 29 her return to the WTA
Tour in 2006.
2006
Her Grand Slam comeback debut was at the 2006 Australian Open, where she reached the quarterfinals before losing to Kim Clijsters, the second seed. 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).
On May 19, 2006, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals of
the Tier I Italian Open in Rome, beating top 20 player Flavia Pennetta, and two days later won the tournament. This was her 41st WTA tour singles title and
first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals at the French
Open, losing to Clijsters, and the third round at Wimbledon, losing
to Ai Sugiyama. Her U.S. Open return was short
lived, losing in the second round 6-2, 6-4 to Virginie Razzano, who was ranked outside
the top 100.
In her first tournament since the U.S. Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III Sunfeast Open in
Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian Olga
Poutchkova 6-0, 6-4 in the final after defeating Sania Mirza 6-1, 6-0 in a semifinal.
The following week in Seoul, Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the
second round to Mirza 4-6, 6-0, 6-4.
During her 8 months back on the WTA tour, Hingis has reached three Tier I finals - the first in Tokyo (falling to
Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-0, after defeating Maria
Sharapova in a semifinal), then in Rome (winning the title over Dinara Safina 6-2,
7-5), and in Montreal (falling to Ana Ivanović 6-2, 6-3). She has beaten several top
players in her comeback, including Sharapova, Lindsay Davenport, Dementieva,
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova and
Venus Williams.
Hingis qualified for the end of year WTA Tour Championships in Madrid as the
eighth seed. In her three round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both Justine
Henin-Hardenne and Amelie Mauresmo but defeated Nadia Petrova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
Hingis ended the year ranked No. 7 in the WTA rankings, which is based on the previous 52 weeks of results. In the 2006 Race
to the Sony Ericsson Championships rankings, she also finished No. 7. She finished 8th in prize money earnings during 2006 (U.S.
$1,159,537).
2007
Hingis started 2007 by reaching the final of a Tier III event, the Australian Hardcourt Championships in Gold Coast, Australia, losing to Dinara Safina of
Russia 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. The next week at the Medibank International in Sydney, Hingis lost her first round match to
Jelena Janković in three sets.
At the 2007 Australian Open, Hingis won her first three rounds without losing a
set before defeating China's Na Li in the fourth round 4-6,
6-3, 6-0. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to Kim Clijsters 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. 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, Japan, defeating Ana
Ivanović in the final 6-4, 6-2. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event.[9]
Three weeks later, Hingis lost for the second time this year to Janković in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open. At the Qatar Total
Open in Doha, Hingis lost to Daniela Hantuchova
1-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals after being up a set and 4-1 (40-0) in the second set. In women's doubles, Hingis teamed with
Maria Kirilenko to win the title, defeating Agnes
Szavay and Vladimira Uhlirova in the final 6-1, 6-1.
At the Pacific Life Open in Indian
Wells, California, which was the second Tier I tournament of the year, Hingis again lost to Hantuchova, this time in the
fourth round 6-4, 6-3. Hingis was up a service break in both sets but, as in Doha, could not hold her lead.
At the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key
Biscayne, Florida, Hingis again failed to reach the quarterfinals, losing in the third round to Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Her next tournament was the Qatar Telecom German Open, where she fell in the
third round to compatriot Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-0. A hip injury that troubled her at the
German Open (she took painkillers for her matches) caused her to withdraw from the Telecom Italia
Masters Roma, where she was the defending champion, and the French Open, the
only Grand Slam singles title that has eluded her.
In her first round match at Wimbledon Hingis saved two match points to
defeat British wildcard Naomi Cavaday. Afterwards it emerged Martina had not fully
recovered from the hip injury that prevented her from playing in Roland Garros.[10] In the third round Hingis lost to Laura Granville of the
United States 6-4, 6-2 and claimed afterwards she should not have entered the tournament.[11] In San Diego, Martina defeated Michaella Krajicek 7-5 6-2 before falling to an
in-form Patty Schnyder 6-1 6-7(4) 6-3. Hingis was leading 3-1 in the final set before losing 5 straight games.
In August 2007, Hingis lost to Sania Mirza 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 in a second-round match of East
West Bank Classic WTA Tournament.[12]
Her next tournament was the last grand slam of the year, the U.S. Open, the same
Open that she won exactly ten years ago for the first time. Fortunately for Hingis, she got stuck in the bottom, less competitive
part of the draw. After winning in the first two rounds, many commentators had been saying that if she continued to play the way
she was, she had a chance of making the semi-finals with her variety of shots instead of the hard hitting players that make up
most of the womens tour. If she won in the third round, her likely opponent would have been fourth seeded, and 2004 champion,
Svetlana Kuznetsova, who has been known to be great when she plays well, but very
inconsistent. With the recent exit of last years champion and number two seed, Maria
Sharapova, the bottom half had been blown wide open, with anyone having a chance to make the finals, including Hingis.
Unfortunately, Hingis crashed out of the third round losing to Belurusian Teenager Victoria Azarenka 6-3,1-6,0-6; however, she
will gain points for improving by one round from her shock second round exit last year.
In September 2007, Hingis played at her debut tournament in Beijing. She had a comfortable first round win over Chinese
youngster Tian Tian Sun 6-2,6-3; however, her winning form was halted when she lost in the second round to Chinese star Shuai
Peng in straight sets 7-5,6-1.
Hingis' next tournament was due to be in Stuttgart for the Porsche Grand Prix but pulled out allegedly due to a recurrence of
her hip-injury that has plagued her through the 2007 season and now causing speculation has to whether her career could soon be
over permanently. The Swiss Miss was due to play her home country tournament in Zurich starting October 15th, a tournament she
won in 2000, but has since withdrawn and chosen to end her season early to recover from her injury.[13]
Controversies
Hingis is also well known for usually being outspoken and "sharp tongued." 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.
- 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." [15]
- 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 colour, things happen.'" In the U.S., this comment garnered considerable attention, although elsewhere her
comment was mostly greeted with indifference.[16]
- At the peak of the Williams sisters and Hingis' competitive and fierce rivalry, Hingis stated in a press conference during
the 1999 U.S. 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."[citation needed]
- On the long-dominant German 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.)[citation needed]
- Responding in a 1999 press conference on why she terminated her doubles partnership with former Wimbledon champion
Jana Novotna, Hingis remarked, "She's old and slow."[17]
- During her acceptance speech at the 1997 Australian Open women's singles final, the winner, Hingis, referred to her win in
doubles the previous day and said, "I always love to come here to Australia and it's a great win for me and I will like to come
back and win another title. Yesterday, I already won in my doubles so, next time I'll have to play mixed doubles so, maybe I'm
going to win that too. But I also need to give someone else a chance to win an event."
Playing style
Hingis is renowned for her tactical approach to the game of tennis and for her technical skills, enabling her to produce a
large array of shots with finesse. She lacks the power possessed by many of her contemporaries; therefore, she relies on low
error rates and good shot selection to keep opponents off-balance. She often uses change of direction and pace to catch opponents
off guard and sharp angles to open up the court. She is also well known for her ability to break long rallies by hitting accurate
drop shots and coming to the net, where she is a skilled volleyer. A signature play of Hingis is the drop shot followed by a lob,
often resulting in an easy volley or overhead to finish the point.
Grand Slam singles finals
Wins (5)
Runner-ups (7)
Grand Slam doubles finals
Wins (9)
| Year |
Championship |
Partnering |
Opponents in Final |
Score in Final |
| 1996 |
Wimbledon |
Helena Suková |
 Meredith McGrath
 Larisa Neiland |
5-7, 7-5, 6-1 |
| 1997 |
Australian Open |
 Natasha Zvereva |
Lindsay Davenport
Lisa Raymond |
6-2, 6-2 |
| 1998 |
Australian Open (2) |
 Mirjana Lucic |
Lindsay
Davenport
Natasha Zvereva |
6-4, 2-6, 6-3 |
| 1998 |
French Open |
 Jana Novotná |
Lindsay
Davenport
Natasha Zvereva |
6-1, 7-6(4) |
| 1998 |
Wimbledon (2) |
Jana Novotná |
Lindsay
Davenport
Natasha Zvereva |
6-3, 3-6, 8-6 |
| 1998 |
U.S. Open |
Jana Novotná |
Lindsay
Davenport
Natasha Zvereva |
6-3, 6-3 |
| 1999 |
Australian Open (3) |
 Anna Kournikova |
Lindsay
Davenport
Natasha Zvereva |
7-5, 6-3 |
| 2000 |
French Open (2) |
 Mary
Pierce |
 Virginia Ruano Pascual
 Paola Suarez |
6-2, 6-4 |
| 2002 |
Australian Open (4) |
Anna Kournikova |
 Daniela Hantuchová
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario |
6-2, 6-7(4), 6-1 |
Runner-ups (2)
WTA Tour and ITF Circuit singles titles
| Legend (Singles) |
| Tier I (17) |
| Tier II (15) |
| Tier III (4) |
| Tier IV (0) |
| Grand Slam Title (5) |
| WTA Tour Championship (2) |
| ITF Circuit (2) |
| # |
Date |
Tournament |
Surface |
Opponent in final |
Score |
| 1. |
1993-10-24 |
Langenthal, Switzerland |
Carpet |
Sophie
Georges |
2-6, 7-5, 7-6(4) |
| 2. |
1996-03-10 |
Prostejov, Czech Republic |
Hard Indoors |
 Barbara Paulus |
6-1, 6-4 |
| 3. |
1996-10-13 |
Filderstadt, Germany |
Carpet |
 Anke
Huber |
6-2, 3-6, 6-3 |
| 4. |
1996-11-10 |
Oakland, U.S. |
Carpet |
Monica Seles |
6-2, 6-0 |
| 5. |
1997-01-12 |
Sydney, Australia |
Hard |
Jennifer Capriati |
6-1, 5-7, 6-1 |
| 6. |
1997-01-25 |
Australian Open, Melbourne,
Australia |
Hard |
Mary
Pierce |
6-2, 6-2 |
| 7. |
1997-02-02 |
Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan |
Carpet |
Steffi Graf |
Walkover |
| 8. |
1997-02-16 |
Paris, France |
Carpet |
Anke
Huber |
6-3, 3-6, 6-3 |
| 9. |
1997-03-30 |
Key Biscayne, U.S. |
Hard |
Monica Seles |
6-2, 6-1 |
| 10. |
1997-04-06 |
Hilton Head Island, U.S. |
Clay |
Monica Seles |
3-6, 6-3, 7-6(5) |
| 11. |
1997-07-06 |
Wimbledon, United
Kingdom |
Grass |
Jana Novotná |
2-6, 6-3, 6-3 |
| 12. |
1997-07-27 |
Stanford, U.S. |
Hard |
Conchita Martínez |
6-0, 6-2 |
| 13. |
1997-08-03 |
San Diego, U.S. |
Hard |
Monica Seles |
7-6(4), 6-4 |
| 14. |
1997-09-07 |
US Open, New York, U.S. |
Hard |
Venus Williams |
6-0, 6-4 |
| 15. |
1997-10-12 |
Filderstadt, Germany |
Carpet |
Lisa Raymond |
6-2, 6-4 |
| 16. |
1997-11-16 |
Philadelphia, U.S. |
Carpet |
Lindsay Davenport |
7-5, 6-7(7), 7-6(4) |
| 17. |
1998-01-31 |
Australian Open, Melbourne,
Australia |
Hard |
Conchita Martínez |
6-3, 6-3 |
| 18. |
1998-03-15 |
Indian Wells, U.S. |
Hard |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-3, 6-4 |
| 19. |
1998-05-04 |
Hamburg, Germany |
Clay |
Jana Novotná |
6-3, 7-5 |
| 20. |
1998-05-17 |
Rome, Italy |
Clay |
Venus Williams |
6-3, 2-6, 6-3 |
| 21. |
1998-11-22 |
WTA Tour Championships, New York,
U.S. |
Carpet |
Lindsay Davenport |
7-5, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 |
| 22. |
1999-01-30 |
Australian Open, Melbourne,
Australia |
Hard |
Amélie Mauresmo |
6-2, 6-3 |
| 23. |
1999-02-07 |
Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan |
Carpet |
 Amanda Coetzer |
6-2, 6-1 |
| 24. |
1999-04-04 |
Hilton Head Island, U.S. |
Clay |
Anna Kournikova |
6-4, 6-3 |
| 25. |
1999-05-16 |
Berlin, Germany |
Clay |
Julie Halard-Decugis |
6-0, 6-1 |
| 26. |
1999-08-08 |
San Diego, U.S. |
Hard |
Venus Williams |
6-4, 6-0 |
| 27. |
1999-08-22 |
Toronto, Canada |
Hard |
Monica Seles |
6-4, 6-4 |
| 28. |
1999-10-10 |
Filderstadt, Germany |
Carpet |
Mary
Pierce |
6-4, 6-1 |
| 29. |
2000-02-06 |
Tokyo (Pan Pacific), Japan |
Carpet |
Sandrine Testud |
6-3, 7-5 |
| 30. |
2000-04-02 |
Key Biscayne, U.S. |
Hard |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-3, 6-2 |
| 31. |
2000-05-07 |
Hamburg, Germany |
Clay |
Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario |
6-3, 6-3 |
| 32. |
2000-06-25 |
's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands |
Grass |
 Ruxandra Dragomir |
6-2, 3-0 retired |
| 33. |
2000-08-20 |
Montreal, Canada |
Hard |
Serena Williams |
0-6, 6-3, 3-0 retired |
| 34. |
2000-10-08 |
Filderstadt, Germany |
Carpet |
 Kim Clijsters |
6-0, 6-3 |
| 35. |
2000-10-15 |
Zurich, Switzerland |
Hard |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-4, 4-6, 7-5 |
| 36. |
2000-10-29 |
Moscow, Russia |
Carpet |
Anna Kournikova |
6-3, 6-1 |
| 37. |
2000-11-19 |
WTA Tour Championships, New York,
U.S. |
Carpet |
Monica Seles |
6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4 |
| 38. |
2001-01-08 |
Sydney, Australia |
Hard |
Lindsay Davenport |
6-3, 4-6, 7-5 |
| 39. |
2001-02-18 |
Doha, Qatar |
Hard |
Sandrine Testud |
6-3, 6-2 |
| 40. |
2001-02-25 |
Dubai, |
