Hingis Gets Cincinnati Wild Card For Doubles

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 31st July 2013

Hingis Gets Cincinnati Wild Card For Doubles

epa03787033 Swiss tennis champion Martina Hingis enters the center court during her enshrinement ceremony at the International Tennis Hall of Fame for the Class of 2013 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA 13 July 2013. EPA/DOMINICK REUTER |

Martina Hingis, who earlier this month was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, will make her Cincinnati debut this summer as a wild card entrant in the doubles field at the Western & Southern Open, which will be held August 10-18 at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio, a Cincinnati suburb.

Hingis will be the 75th member of the Hall of Fame to participate in the Western & Southern Open main draw, but she will be the first player to do so after being enshrined.

In singles, Hingis claimed five Grand Slam titles, including a three-peat at the Australian Open, while tallying a total of 43 victories. She spent 209 weeks as the No. 1 ranked player it the World.

In doubles, she is just one of four women to have won a Grand Slam, doing so in 1998 by winning the Australian Open with Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and the remaining three Majors with Jana Novotna.

Overall she claimed 37 career doubles titles, including nine at Grand Slam tournaments. She spent 35 weeks as the WTA’s No. 1 ranked doubles player.

The 32-year-old Hingis is returning to action this summer for the first time since September 2007. She is playing doubles at Emirates Airline US Open Series events in Carlsbad, Calif., and Toronto before coming to Cincinnati.

Hingis’ partner for the Western & Southern Open will be announced at a later date.

The doubles draws will be made on August 10, one day after the singles draws are made.

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