{"id":49536,"date":"2017-10-28T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T12:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=49536"},"modified":"2017-10-28T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T12:58:34","slug":"wta-finals-retiring-hingiss-career-comes-to-sudden-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/wta-finals-retiring-hingiss-career-comes-to-sudden-halt.html","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals: Retiring Hingis’s career comes to sudden halt"},"content":{"rendered":"

WTA Finals: Retiring Hingis’s career comes to sudden halt<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Martina Hingis’s glittering career came to a sudden end on Saturday when she suffered a shock doubles defeat at the WTA Finals \u2014 her last tournament before retiring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hingis and Taiwan’s Chan Yung-Jan, the world’s top pairing and reigning US Open champions, were beaten by third-ranked Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova 6-4, 7-6 (7\/5) in the Singapore semifinals.<\/span><\/p>\n

It ended a 19-match winning streak for Hingis and Chan \u2014 and halted one of the great careers in tennis.<\/span><\/p>\n

WATCH: ‘Right time to retire’<\/span><\/p>\n

Hingis won five Grand Slam singles titles after she emerged as a teenage prodigy in the 1990s, and later found success as a specialist in doubles, in which she has a further 20 major wins.<\/span><\/p>\n

The “Swiss Miss”, now 37, has retired twice before \u2014 once after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine \u2014 but she said it was “definite” this time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hingis and Chan were broken twice early in the first set and were unable to thwart their opponents’ inspired play.<\/span><\/p>\n

The match took a twist when Babos injured her ankle late in the second set, but she gamely battled on to help deny Hingis a chance at a fairytale ending.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hingis, who inspired a young Roger Federer, said this week she wanted to remain in tennis after retirement, possibly as a coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think now it’s definite. It’s different, because before I walked away thinking I might come back,” she told reporters on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

“After a season like this, I think it’s also perfect timing. You know, you want to stop on top and not when you’re already going backwards.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I couldn’t ask for a better finish.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though they lost, Hingis and Chan had already secured the year-end number one ranking in women’s doubles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:=-\u00a0http:\/\/www.sportstarlive.com\/tennis\/wta-finals-retiring-hingiss-career-comes-to-sudden-halt\/article19938647.ece<\/span><\/p>\n

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