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Martina Hingis started playing tennis at age of two and entered tournaments at the age of four. From this early start, Martina Hingis turned pro at fourteen finishing the year with a world ranking of 87 in 1994. Hingis 's first major breakthrough was at the 1996 US Open at just twenty-five days from her sixteenth birthday, Martina Hingis became the third youngest semi-finalist there following Jaeger in 1980 and Capriati in 1991. She consequently moved up the tennis world rankings in unstoppable form to a ranking of four ending the year 1996.

Martina Hingis broke the record for the youngest female tennis player to rank at Number one on March the 30th 1997 at sixteen years and six months. Hingis career highlight was in the 1997 tennis season, where she won three out of the four Grand Slam finals.

Following this success Martina Hingis dominated tennis. In; 1997 she achieved a ranking of one, 1998 at two, 1999 one, 2000 one, 2001 four. In her tennis career, she earned over $18 million and the third all-time highest career prize money behind Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. She won 40 WTA Tour Singles titles, 36 Doubles titles, fourteen times Grand Slam Champion including five in singles and nine in women’s doubles.

Martina Hingis won four hundred and seventy one singles matches lost one hundred and one. Doubles wins equaled two hundred and seventy three and fifty losses, her significant and well-known doubles pairing was with Anna Kournikova ( Martina Hingis Final Doubles match was at the Australian Open Sydney in 2002 with Anna Kournikova ).

The final Singles tennis match Martina Hingis played was in 2002 at Filderstadt where she lost to Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-1. After this, she withdrew from all remaining Championships due to continued pain in her left ankle and required surgery on the injury.

Martina Hingis is set to return to tennis in 2006.

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