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Article: Tennis Wimbledon 2001: Queen in name only; Martina Hingis has to learn new tricks if she is to justify her No 1 tag, argues.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2001
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Byline: Mark Staniforth
To hear the official world No 1 admit she does not deserve to be there, without a Grand Slam title in her cupboard for more than two years, is to hint at the mental demons which are threatening to prematurely end Martina Hingis' reign as the queen of women's tennis.
Since her famously spectacular combustion during the 1999 French Open final against Steffi Graf, when she served underarm, berated the grandstands and stormed off court in tears at the end, Hingis has failed to produce anything like the kind of majestic form which swept her to five ...