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Hingis from start to finish
PARIS. Dec 29 (AFP): With three grand slam singles titles, nine other tournament wins and only six
defeats in 79 matches — 1997 was indisputably Martina Hingis' year. But with Steffi Graf out of action for most of the season, Monica Seles in sharp decline and teenage rivals Venus and Serena Williams hovering in the wings and likely to cause upsets in 1998. The recordbreaking Swiss teenager may yet live to bitterly regret the last 12 months.
For she may never again have such a great chance of winning all four of the major tournaments in the same year and become only the fourth player in history to achieve the elusive "Grand Slam".
Maureen Connolly (1953). Margaret Court (1970) and Steffi Graf (1988), are the only players to have achieved the feat.
Hingis got three-quarters of the way there. The stumbling block proved to.be the French Open where she crashed to a shock straight-sets defeat against Croatia's Iva Majoli in the final.
Hingis, named after the leg-endaiy Martina Navratilova by her fanatical tennis-playing mother and coach Melanie Molitor, started rewriting the history books in January when, at the age of Just 16 years 3 months and 26 days, she became the youngest winner of a Grand Slam singles title this century by triumphing over French number-one Mary Pierce at the Australian Open.
Two months later the young Swiss player became the world's youngest-ever player to top the rankings, and by the time she arrived at Roland Garros she had won six tournaments and was unbeaten in 34 matches.
In the run-up to the world's most gruelling event, however. Hingis suffered the first major Injury of her career when she damaged knee ligaments. But the setback did not come from playing tennis but form her other great love — horse riding.
She was thrown while riding a friend's horse and was grounded for three weeks — an enforced rest which did not allow her to prepare properly for the French Open.
Despite the mishap Hingis looked to be on her way to another triumph when she won a tumultuous three-set showdown
with three-times former champion Seles in the semifinals.
After that win, most observers throughout she had only turn up to claim the trophy. Hingis, however, was brought back to earth when she found a highly combative 19-year-old Majoli waiting for her. The Croatian then played the match of her life and dismissed Hingis in 78 minutes.
Hingis bravely smiled off the defeat, cross the English Channel and won the Wimbledon title by beating experienced Czech serve-and-volley specialist Jana Novotna before sweeping
through the draw at the US Open without dropping a set to take the title after a one-sided win over home hope Venus Williams.
The Swiss player, a hot favourite to close her season by winning the WTA Championships. slipped in New York, however, when she went down in the semifinals — Pierce avenging her loss in Australia.
Steffi Graf had a disastrous season.
Having withdrawn because of continuing problems with her knee from a scheduled showdown with Hingis in the final in Tokyo in February, the German champion returned to the Tour in May only to crash to one of the worst defeats of her career — 0-6. 1-6 — when she faced South Africa’s Amanda Coetzer In the third round in Berlin.
Although the German champion avenged that defeat two weeks later and went on to beat Croatia's 15-year-old Mirjana Luclc for the title in Strasbourg. she slumped to another defeat against the 5ft 2in (1.57m) Coet-zer in the quarterfinals at the French Open.
It was the end of Grafs season.
A few days after leaving Roland Garros she finally underwent the operation on the knee she had been putting off for months.
With Graf gone and Seles still far below peak physical condition and clearly suffering from the absence of her father and coach Karoly Seles, who had to stay behind in the United States for stomach cancer treatment. Hingis ruled supreme.
Venus, a hard-hitting 17-year-old six-footer, came over to Europe in the summer accompanied by her mother and younger sister Serena — and showed enough to leave nobody in any doubt that she could develop into a major threat to Hingis in 1998.
Hingis will also have to deal with sister Serena, considered by many an Meyer^ brighter^
Serena exploded on the scene in Chicago where, as a wildcard entry, she defeated Elena Likhpvtseva. Pierce and Monica Seles to go rocketing up to 102nd in the rankings.
Anna Kournikova, the ambitious Russian newcomer with a lethal double-fisted backhand and model good looks, swept into the semifinals at Wimbledon less than one month after her 16th birthday. For the Championship fortnight, one of the wettest-ever the young Russian. who is coached by Nick Bollettlerl. was the main target of the British tabloid press photographers. She played that role to perfection.
The 29-year-old Novotna, followed her runners-up berth at Wimbledon by finally winning the first major title of her career when she finally strung together a series of excellent results and triumphed over Pierce to claim the WTA Championship crown.
The 22-year-old Canadian-born French number-one had every reason to be pleased with her season, however.
Quite apart from her excellent performances in Australia and in New York, she was also a member of the first French team ever to win the Fed Cup.
Under Yannick Noah, Pierce Joined up with Nathalie Tauziat. Sandrine Testud and Alexandra Fusai to beat the Netherlands 4-1 in the final.