What Is Martina Hingis' Net Worth?
Martina Hingis is a Swiss former professional tennis player who has a net worth of $20 million. Martina Hingis accumulated her net worth through her years in pro tennis and won nine grand slams. She's the first Swiss player, man or woman, to win a major title and attain the No. 1 world ranking.
Early Life
Martina Hingis was born on September 30, 1980, in Kosice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). She is the daughter of tennis players Melanie Molitorova and Karol Hingis. Due to her parents' professional playing, Martina got into tennis at a very young age. However, her parents divorced when she was six years old, and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia to Switzerland, where Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization.
At just 12 years old, Martina became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title when she won the girls' singles at the French Open in 1993. The next year, she retained her French Open junior title, won the girls' singles title at Wimbledon, and made it to the U.S. Open final.
Tennis Career
Hingis turned pro at just 14 years old. One year later, she became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, eventually becoming one of the top women's tennis players in the world in the late 1990s. As one of the best, Martina played on a high-profile doubles team with fellow teen sensation Anna Kournikova. In 2002, ankle injuries cut her career short, and Hingis announced her retirement in 2003.
However, three years later, Martina made a comeback to professional tennis with her participation in the Australian women's hardcourt championships in January of 2006. Her second retirement came in November 2007 after testing positive for cocaine at that year's Wimbledon tournament. Hingis denied using drugs but decided not to appeal the imminent ban.
Throughout her career, Martina won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one U.S. Open) and spent a total of 209 weeks as world No. 1. Due to her remarkable achievements, she was ranked by "Tennis" magazine in 2005 as the eighth best female player of the past 40 years, and "TIME" magazine named Hingis one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" in 2011.
In 2013, Martina was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and two years later was appointed the organization's first-ever Global Ambassador.
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Career Earnings
Hingis ended 2006 ranked as the No. 7 player in the world and collected nearly $1.2 million in prize money. Over the course of her tennis career, she earned more than $24.7 million in total prize money.
Personal Life
Martina married Thibault Hutin on December 10, 2010, but the couple separated at the beginning of 2013. On July 20, 2018, she married sports physician Harald Leeman in a secret ceremony in Switzerland. The couple has a daughter together, born February 26, 2019.
Hingis speaks four languages: Czech, German, English, and French.
