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Scent of a Swiss miss
LONDON. Dec 18 (Reuters): Everyone predicted 1997 would be a good year for Martina Hingis, no one believed it
would be quite this good.
The Swiss teenager won three of the four Grand Slam titles. 17 tournaments In all and more than twice the prize money of her nearest rival, Jana Novotna, she lost only five matches all year.
Hingis became the youngest
number one, man or woman, since rankings began when she took over from the Injured Steffi Graf in March aged 16 and a half, and she looks set to dominate the game In the style of Graf and Monica Seles, number one when she was 17.
Her domination is based on thumping drives on both sides, made even more powerful this year by Hingis's physical development. but she has also markedly Improved her serve and volley
Behind her ever-present smile U, determination.
winner of a "big four" singles title for 110 years, she was already the youngest Grand Slam champion after winning the women s doubles at Wimbledon in 1996.
By mid-February It was clear that Hingis was the dominant player on the tour having won tier first four tournaments, but an eagerly awaited showdown with Graf in the Pan Pacific final was scuppered at the last minute when the German injured her knee
verging on arrogance, matched | by few on the tour and reminis-i cent of the woman she was
named after. Martina
I Navratilova.
t Tm much more self confl-
| dent than I was at the beginning of the year. Hingis said in
| November, "now you're the
I hunted one, not the hunter."
i It is hard now to remember that Hingis had only won her
' first tournament in October 1996 and was ranked number
I four in the world when she travelled to Australia for the
i Open.
She did not lose a set on the way to her first Grand Slam fi-nal where she beat Mary Pierce
I 6-2. 6 2 to become the youngest