Martina Hingis - Awards and Accolades

Awards and Accolades

1992

• Swiss Champion together with the tennisclub TC Schützenwiese (from Winterthur) in the Interclub-Championships.

1994

• ITF Junior Girls Singles World Champion. Won Wimbledon junior singles title (youngest junior champion there at 13 years, 276 days). Won French Open junior singles and doubles titles. Runner-up at US Open junior singles tournament.

1995

• Tennis magazine. Female Rookie of the Year.

1996

• Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour Most Improved Player. WTA Tour Most Impressive Newcomer Award.

1997

• Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year.
• Selected as the Player of the Year by the WTA Tour, the International Tennis Federation, and Tennis magazine.
• BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.

1998

• First female athlete to be on the cover of the American men's magazine GQ in June 1998.
• WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Jana Novotná.

1999

• WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Anna Kournikova.

2000

• One of five female tennis players named to the 2000 Forbes magazine Power 100 in Fame and Fortune list at No. 51.
• WTA Tour Diamond ACES Award.

2002

• Elected to Tour Players' Council.

2006

• World Comeback of the Year Award at the 2006 Laureus World Sports Awards.

2007

• Surpassed US$20 million in career earnings at the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, the fourth female player to do so (after Steffi Graf, Martina Navratilova, and Lindsay Davenport). She was fourth in the all-time money list at $20,033,600 after the tournament.
• Meredith Inspiration Award for inspiring women around the world – Family Circle Cup/Family Circle magazine

Others

• Except for the French Open, has won every major WTA Tour singles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments, WTA Tour Championships, and Tier I tournaments).
• Except for Berlin, has won every major WTA Tour doubles title at least once during her career (Grand Slam tournaments, WTA Tour Championships, and Tier I tournaments).
• 1999 French Open final (Graf d. Hingis 4–6, 7–5, 6–2) was voted by worldwide fans as the Greatest Match in 30-Year History of the Tour (online voting spanned two months and included a ballot of 16 memorable matches).
• To celebrate the WTA Tour's 30th Anniversary, attended on-court ceremony at 2003 season-ending WTA Tour Championships that honored 13 world No. 1 champions (past and present), and founding members of the tour.