MELBOURNE -- Show Court 3 was not far from empty on Friday as Yulia Putintseva and Eugenie Bouchard played in the full heat of a Melbourne summer in the semifinals of the Australian Open girls tournament. In the third row of the stands, under a broad-brimmed straw hat and without the benefit of a racket, Martina Hingis put both clenched fists...

-- the mood swings, the matches, the generations themselves. This was evident the other day when Melanie Oudin and Caroline Wozniacki -- who meet Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the United States Open -- were talking about their role models. Oudin, 17, picked an old lady like Justine Henin, all of 27 and currently retired. Wozniacki, 19, chose...
The women's year-end championships are in full swing in Madrid, with Justine Henin still in fine form and Maria Sharapova showing signs of resurgence. In Shanghai, the men's year-end championships are set to start tomorrow with the top eight men in the world, led by Roger Federer. But it has been difficult to focus on mere tennis matches this fall....
Martina Hingis (født 30. september 1980 i Košice, Tjekkoslovakiet, nu Slovakiet) er en schweizisk tennisspiller som i slutningen af 1990'erne toppede verdensranglisten. Blandt hendes titler kan nævnes: tre Australian Open, en Wimbledon og en US Open.