Hingis closes the door on the past

看板Hingis作者noanoa (Lleyki Double)時間21年前 (2003/05/27 20:34)推噓2(2推 0噓 0→)

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Hingis closes the door on the past 27/05/2003 12:38 - (SA) Paris - Martina Hingis, winner of five Grand Slams before she was 20 in the days before the powerful Williams sisters came along to defy her, was back at Roland Garros this week - but there's no chance of her adding the only Slam singles crown she never won. Hingis, 22, is a premature retiree having had surgery on damaged ankle ligaments which finally forced her to accept her career is over - and it was as a tourist only that she visited the French Open on Monday with horse riding, rather than racquet-wielding, now her main sporting interest. "Everybody is asking after me. 'What are you doing these days?' It's nice for me - now I'm no longer in competition with anyone," Hingis told L'Equipe. The Swiss miss twice was a finalist here - in 1997, then again in 1999, when she lost a commanding lead against German legend Steffi Graf. That prompted on-court tears and a tantrum -and it was only her mother who persuaded her to return for the winners ceremony. That kind of heartache is now in the past. "It's very moving to come back here and see the centre court, talk to the players and drink in the atmosphere. "I played here eight to ten years - I know all about it. It's nice to come back three or four days - but for me that chapter of my life is closed. I can't play any more. Life goes on. 'Purely for fun' "Now I just play a couple of times a week, purely for fun. I don't train at all." Hingis now goes riding on her horse Laetitia - more difficult to deal with than a racquet. "It's easy to leave a racquet in the corner for a few days - but not a horse." In response to whether she might just try a comeback Hingis was adamant she would not. "Physically for me it's not possible. "The decision I took at the end of last year to retire was one I had duly reflected upon. I live in the future and not the past. "Now I live my life like a normal person - I have more intimacy. "I met Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt yesterday (Monday) on the Champs Elysees in an ice cream parlor and we fell into each others arms ." :D Asked if she might just try a spot of mixed doubles here, Hingis hesitated. "Just for fun, okay - I haven't got my return ticket yet! No I'm joking -I'm going back in a couple of days." -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.csie.ntu.edu.tw) ◆ From: 61.217.136.139