Martina Hingis Martina Hingis is one of the greatest tennis players in the history of woman's tennis. She was born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, on 30th September, 1980. She started playing tennis at the age of three. And she has played in competition since she was five years old. Her parens divorced and her mother remarried in 1988, when Martina was eight. She moved to Switzerland with mother and stepfather and has lived there ever since. Martina became the European Champion for players under eighteen in 1994. In 1996 she won the Wimbledon double title at the age of fifteen and became youngest player ever to won one million dollars in prize money. In 1998 she won all four Grand Slam doubles titles. Since then her career has had upset down. But het future still looks very bright. Martina doesn't have a lot of time for social life. She is determined and hardworking. She is also keen on all sports. Apart from tennis her favourite sport is horse riding and skiing. She also likes going to museums, art galleries, the theatre and the cinema. When she retires from tennis she'd like to keep rise horses. British English.