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Martina Hingis’s Retirement, How Much Does Her Prize Money Weigh?

Martina Hingis has announced her retirement from tennis (again.) Effective from after the year-end tournament in Singapore. She has won 68 singles titles and 26 doubles titles, she has won 102 matches against top 10 players and has won 2-year end tournaments in singles and 3-year end tournaments in doubles and has won millions of tennis fans’ hearts across the globe. But what about the rest of her story? This definitely isn’t the first time that Martina Hingis retired from tennis, in fact, she did it twice. Once in 2003 and again in 2007, but why did it happen? Well in 2003 she retired after having multiple recent injuries. She claimed that she was in pain and it was too much for her. In her press conferences, she said that she wanted to “focus” on her studies. She claimed she was only going to play tennis recreationally she also wanted to go horseback riding more and she could do that with a more open schedule. She returned in 2005 after a short-lived retirement. Her first p

All About Junior Tennis

Junior tennis is almost as old as normal tennis but how did it come to be and should your kids be playing competitive tournaments? The biggest junior tour, the ITF junior tour was founded in 1977 and has grown since. During the year of its foundation, the tour only included 9 tournaments compared to its 350 tournaments in 2001. In the latest release of rankings, the ITF included 2563 boys players and 2542 girls contestants. Some of the top players on the tour have already established a presence on the pro circuit. The Serbian Olga Danilovic has won the doubles tournament at the age of 16 in the most recent edition of The Wimbledon Championships. ITF junior world number 1 Yibing Wu has an ATP ranking of 329. On top of his rank, he has also earned 80,000 dollars and has achieved a career-high ranking of 320. Miomir Kecmanovic, the ITF junior world number 5 and former world number 1 has a ranking of 294. He finished 2016 with a year-end world number 1 title on the ITF junior tour h

Mladenovic, Peaking Or About To Be Peaking?

Mladenovic has been having an amazing run in these last couple of months, is she peaking? Or is this just the beginning? Today, she has just knocked out defending champ of the French Open, Roland Garros. I believe this is just the tip of the iceberg for the young french woman. Born in a town on the coast of northeastern France a tennis prodigy was born to a family of athletes. Her two year younger brother a professional soccer player and her dad a professional handball player, Kristina just had to have the genes of a natural athlete. She had a very successful junior career, the 24 year old won a junior French Open title and fell to Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the finals of Wimbledon. She was already showing signs of being the most successful pro athlete in her family yet. After her junior days Mladenovic joined the ITF pro circuit and played there for 2 years until she received a wildcard into the prestigious Australian Open in 2009. She ended up losing in the first round t