Davenport: Hingis planning singles return

[djmm]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

:laydownlaughing

Britbox made a funny!!

 

[Grossefavourite]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

Don't think for a minute that Juicy is done. She's gonna make one more comeback.

 

[kskate2]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

The Kastles defeated the Springfield Lasers 25-12 Sunday night in a match delayed two hours by rain.

Martina Hingis won her matches in singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles for the Kastles. She beat Alisa Kleybanova 5-2 in singles.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/20130729/world-teamtennis-championship.ap/#ixzz2aV1rMxnj

None of those old ladies on WTT are able to handle the court smarts of Hingis! No wonder she thinks she can make a comeback! I can't wait! :clap :clap :angel:

How long do you think it will take her to get to the top 10

I think it's possible! When Henin returned, she was #13 within months! Depending on the draws, I can see her there by next spring; easily! The women's game isn't that deep!

It's possible, but it won't be easy at all. Hingis has been away from the game for 5 years. The power that ran her out of the game back then still exist and to a greater extent it's more prevalent as most players can smack the ball around. You have a handful of defensive players that have made a name for themselves, but they've been on tour consistently and have adjusted to the power game of most of the WTA (Errani, Caro, Aga). It will be a new ballgame for Martina if she decides to play singles. Playing WTT and doubles doesn't take nearly the same focus, training and commitment that singles requires.

 

[Grossefavourite]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

The Kastles defeated the Springfield Lasers 25-12 Sunday night in a match delayed two hours by rain.

Martina Hingis won her matches in singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles for the Kastles. She beat Alisa Kleybanova 5-2 in singles.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/20130729/world-teamtennis-championship.ap/#ixzz2aV1rMxnj

None of those old ladies on WTT are able to handle the court smarts of Hingis! No wonder she thinks she can make a comeback! I can't wait! :clap :clap :angel:

How long do you think it will take her to get to the top 10

I think it's possible! When Henin returned, she was #13 within months! Depending on the draws, I can see her there by next spring; easily! The women's game isn't that deep!

It's possible, but it won't be easy at all. Hingis has been away from the game for 5 years. The power that ran her out of the game back then still exist and to a greater extent it's more prevalent as most players can smack the ball around. You have a handful of defensive players that have made a name for themselves, but they've been on tour consistently and have adjusted to the power game of most of the WTA (Errani, Caro, Aga). It will be a new ballgame for Martina if she decides to play singles. Playing WTT and doubles doesn't take nearly the same focus, training and commitment that singles requires.

She should be forced to play challengers.

 

[Fiero425]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

None of those old ladies on WTT are able to handle the court smarts of Hingis! No wonder she thinks she can make a comeback! I can't wait! :clap :clap :angel:

How long do you think it will take her to get to the top 10

I think it's possible! When Henin returned, she was #13 within months! Depending on the draws, I can see her there by next spring; easily! The women's game isn't that deep!

It's possible, but it won't be easy at all. Hingis has been away from the game for 5 years. The power that ran her out of the game back then still exist and to a greater extent it's more prevalent as most players can smack the ball around. You have a handful of defensive players that have made a name for themselves, but they've been on tour consistently and have adjusted to the power game of most of the WTA (Errani, Caro, Aga). It will be a new ballgame for Martina if she decides to play singles. Playing WTT and doubles doesn't take nearly the same focus, training and commitment that singles requires.

She should be forced to play challengers.

I think not! You don't get a HOF'r making a last run at her age play challenger events! :huh: :angel:

 

[Grossefavourite]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

How long do you think it will take her to get to the top 10

I think it's possible! When Henin returned, she was #13 within months! Depending on the draws, I can see her there by next spring; easily! The women's game isn't that deep!

It's possible, but it won't be easy at all. Hingis has been away from the game for 5 years. The power that ran her out of the game back then still exist and to a greater extent it's more prevalent as most players can smack the ball around. You have a handful of defensive players that have made a name for themselves, but they've been on tour consistently and have adjusted to the power game of most of the WTA (Errani, Caro, Aga). It will be a new ballgame for Martina if she decides to play singles. Playing WTT and doubles doesn't take nearly the same focus, training and commitment that singles requires.

She should be forced to play challengers.

I think not! You don't get a HOF'r making a last run at her age play challenger events! :huh: :angel:

It's not fair to the players toiling away for the past 5 years while she was prancing about on horseback...and cheating on her husband (fun, though that may be)

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I think it's possible! When Henin returned, she was #13 within months! Depending on the draws, I can see her there by next spring; easily! The women's game isn't that deep!

It's possible, but it won't be easy at all. Hingis has been away from the game for 5 years. The power that ran her out of the game back then still exist and to a greater extent it's more prevalent as most players can smack the ball around. You have a handful of defensive players that have made a name for themselves, but they've been on tour consistently and have adjusted to the power game of most of the WTA (Errani, Caro, Aga). It will be a new ballgame for Martina if she decides to play singles. Playing WTT and doubles doesn't take nearly the same focus, training and commitment that singles requires.

She should be forced to play challengers.

I think not! You don't get a HOF'r making a last run at her age play challenger events! :huh: :angel:

It's not fair to the players toiling away on the tour for the past 5 years while she was prancing about on horseback...and cheating on her husband (fun, though that may be)

 

[djmm]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

Having difficulties posting, Grossie?!?

:snigger

lol

 

[Fiero425]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

She should be forced to play challengers.
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I think not! You don't get a HOF'r making a last run at her age play challenger events! :huh: :angel:
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It's not fair to the players toiling away on the tour for the past 5 years while she was prancing about on horseback...and cheating on her husband (fun, though that may be)
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Life isn't fair! That's just the way it is; esp. if you've reached a certain status! BTW, that's a slimey hit on a great champion! I'm sure you don't want me to bring up Serena being a "homewrecker" out here! No one has clean hands around here; NO ONE!

 

[RJD11]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

Davenport:
Hingis was handed a two-year suspension and was barred from the grounds of all tournaments. She retired again the day the test result was revealed.

The ban lapsed in 2009, but it took a lasting emotional toll, said Lindsay Davenport, Hingis’s old rival and close friend.

“That definitely scarred her emotionally,” Davenport said. “That was not easy for her. And then to be not welcome in tennis for two years; you forget, you’re not even allowed to go watch. And that hurt her, deeply. And so I think when that was lifted, she wasn’t exactly ready to re-embrace the tennis world. It took her a little while to heal from those wounds and get to a place where she felt that she had moved past that.”

At a show jumping competition in 2010, Hingis met the French equestrian Thibault Hutin, and married him later that year. But the demise of their marriage has recently become tabloid fodder in Switzerland, proving a distraction that Davenport believes has further pushed Hingis toward a recommitment to tennis.

“I think the personal stuff that’s going on, getting divorced from her husband, I think she needs something else to focus on,” said Davenport. “And that’s been the tennis.”

 

[RJD11]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

Daniela Hantuchova: Gone in the second round, but a big story after announcing her doubles partnership with Martina Hingis for this week's Southern California Open, the Rogers Cup and the U.S. Open. This will mark the initial stage of Hingis' comeback (she remains coy about venturing into singles), and as Hantuchova told Tennis.com, "She was always my idol growing up, so I said, 'Why don't we give it a try?' We don't have anything to lose, and we just want to have fun on court. She thought about it for a while, and here we are." Both women were born in Slovakia, and Hingis' last tour-level doubles match was alongside Hantuchova at the 2007 U.S. Open. Most notable of all: After all this time, and so many twists and turns, Hingis (at 32) is just a year older than Serena Williams.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/20130730/bank-of-the-west-classic-stanford/#ixzz2adqhev6e

 

[RJD11]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- After a near six-year absence, former world No. 1 Martina Hingis is back on the WTA Tour.

But Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, insists her return will only be in doubles and not singles.

The 32-year-old Hingis began her second comeback to the tour Wednesday, teaming with Daniela Hantuchova for a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Julia Goerges and Darija Jurak in the Southern California Open.

"I always had it in the back of my head in the last six years," said Hingis, who has been coaching for the last two years. "Now, being so much closer to it, being closer to the game, closer to the matches, I was like let's try it again and see if I can have a great time."

Her last WTA match was a second-round loss to China's Peng Shuai at an event in Beijing in September 2007.

But recent comments made by current tennis commentator Lindsay Davenport, the three-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1 ranked player, that Hingis was using the doubles comeback to launch a full-fledge return to singles later this fall, has fueled rampant speculation.

All of which the "Swiss Miss" swatted away like a weak second serve.

"It's a different world," said Hingis, a recent inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "Even Team Tennis now, it's brutal. It's only one set, but still like the next day I wake up and you have to put so much more effort into it. Playing tournaments, that's the easy part. It's all the grind behind it, behind the scenes that people don't see. The six straight hours of training. At 17, everything seemed to be so easy. Now. I'm almost twice the age."

http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/9526323/martina-hingis-insists-comeback-limited-doubles-play-only

 

[the AntiPusher]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- After a near six-year absence, former world No. 1 Martina Hingis is back on the WTA Tour.

But Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, insists her return will only be in doubles and not singles.

The 32-year-old Hingis began her second comeback to the tour Wednesday, teaming with Daniela Hantuchova for a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Julia Goerges and Darija Jurak in the Southern California Open.

"I always had it in the back of my head in the last six years," said Hingis, who has been coaching for the last two years. "Now, being so much closer to it, being closer to the game, closer to the matches, I was like let's try it again and see if I can have a great time."

Her last WTA match was a second-round loss to China's Peng Shuai at an event in Beijing in September 2007.

But recent comments made by current tennis commentator Lindsay Davenport, the three-time Grand Slam champion and former No. 1 ranked player, that Hingis was using the doubles comeback to launch a full-fledge return to singles later this fall, has fueled rampant speculation.

All of which the "Swiss Miss" swatted away like a weak second serve.

"It's a different world," said Hingis, a recent inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "Even Team Tennis now, it's brutal. It's only one set, but still like the next day I wake up and you have to put so much more effort into it. Playing tournaments, that's the easy part. It's all the grind behind it, behind the scenes that people don't see. The six straight hours of training. At 17, everything seemed to be so easy. Now. I'm almost twice the age."

http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/9526323/martina-hingis-insists-comeback-limited-doubles-play-only

Sounds like what Swiss Miss needs is a PT or a very good yoga instructor..

 

[JesuslookslikeBorg]

RE: DAVENPORT---Hingis Returns To Singles In Fall Vowing To Halt Serena's Dominance

the 'swiss miss' seems surprised that training is a bit harder at 32/33 than at 17.