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Always winning can be taxing
NEW YORK. Nov 22 (AP): Playing winning tennis is exhausting. Even for a teenager. A remarkable year ended a few days early for Martina Hingis when the 17-year-old from Trubbach. Switzerland. was knocked out of the 2 million dollars Chase Championships by Mary Pierce.
"The year is over before I ex-Kted," Hingis said following 6-3. 2-6. 7-5 quarterfinEU loss Thursday night.
The year also was made much longer by her winning.
She came into the seasonending tournament with a sparkling 74-4 match record. 12 tournament titles — including" the Australian Open. Wimbledon and US Open — and the world's No. 1 ranking. Only a title match loss to Iva Majoll at the French Open kept her from a Grand Slam sweep.
No wonder she also came into Madison Square Garden a little tired.
"To me. her balls seemed a little shorter and not as penetrating." Pierce said. "And I think she seemed a step slower."
Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, who matched Hingis stroke for stroke and point for point before sustaining an injury and retiring from their first-round match, also noticed a difference.
"I had the feeling Martina was not 100 per cent in shape." Schultz-McCarthy said. "I was a bit too careful because 1 knew she wasn't as fast as the normally is."
Playing winning tennis in 17 tournaments will do that to you.
Playing in 17 tournaments is not the same as playing win-
ning Jennis in 17 tournaments. Only four times was Hingis not in action on the final day of a tournament — losing to Lindsay Davenport In a semifinal at Los Angeles; to Amanda Coetzer in a semifinal at Leipzig, Germany; to Lisa Raymond in a quarterfinal at Zurich, Switzerland. and to Pierce.
She also played doubles in 15 tournaments, posting a 53-7 record and qualifying for the Chase Championships with Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. The two were upset In the first round at Madison Square Garden by Alexandra Fusai and
Nathalie Tauzlat, Members of the Fed Cup champion French team.
While Hingis lost only five times In singles in 1997, four of the losses came in the second half of the year and three in the last five tournaments.
Last year, in her Chase debut, Hingis reached the final.
but tired badly in the last set of a five-set loss to Steffi Graf.
"I started cramping and It was not the best experience." said Hingis, who dropped the fifth set 6-0. "I hope I never have to face that again."
This year, she remembered. So. following her loss at Zurich, she took three weeks off to rest up for the final two weeks of the season.
"No one is as fresh as they were at the start of the year." Hingis said. "I was starting to get a little tired and not very pumped, motivated anymore.
"You want to make it at the end like you did it at the beginning." she said before last week's event. "It’s important for me to play well in the last two tournaments. You don't want to lose at the end."
But although she won the Advanta Championships at Villanova. Pennsylvania, last Sunday, Hingis struggled the entire week. She was forced to go three sets in all four of her matches, and her opponents, even after losing, talked about how much confidence they had gained by playing her so close.
Then came New York and her first-set struggle against Schultz-McCarthy before winning 7-6 (7-3), 5-2, retired.
Hingis brushed aside Schultz-McCarthy's remark about her slowness, but did admit that playing doubles was "tough to play, especially indoors."
'You get a little tired at the end of the year," Hingis said after her loss to Pierce, "and if you're not ready for this tournament. you lose.
"1 guess we just scheduled a little (too much) around the end of the year and I played maybe too much. But you always learn from mistakes. I hope I will do better next year.”