NY Sun: Hingis has no chance

Martina Hingis apparently has no chance according to the New York Sun - she is suffering fromt he same problems she had when she left tennis years ago.

Nine months into her comeback from a three-year retirement from tennis, Martina Hingis seems to have reached the limit of her abilities.

Hingis, the former world no. 1 known for her stylish play and sharp tongue, has had a respectable campaign in 2006. At the Australia Open, her first major tournament since 2002, she reached the quarterfinals and took a set off the no. 2 seed, Kim Clijsters. She defeated Maria Sharapova in Tokyo, won a title on clay in Rome, and made the quarterfinals of the French Open. After her upset in the third round of Wimbledon, she bounced back with a trip to the finals of the Rogers Cup in Montreal (she lost badly to Ana Ivanovic).

For a newcomer or an aging veteran, this would amount to a fine season. Why complain about a 43–14 record and a tad less than $1 million in prize money? For the 25-year-old Hingis, however, the good results are not good enough — that's why she left the game in the first place (along with repeated injuries to her feet). Back then, the Williams sisters and Lindsay Davenport were overwhelming Hingis with their increasingly powerful and deep groundstrokes. Though those three Americans now suffer from either injuries or mental burnout, and many other top athletes are hurting, little has changed for Hingis.

Today, she still must live with a simple, unpleasant fact: When the game's best athletes are healthy, she has no chance. Against players ranked inside the top 15, Hingis is 10–11 on the season. Her record against women ranked inside the top 10 is 4–9. Besides Sharapova, her top 10 wins have come against Davenport, who has been injured most of the season, and Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova, two supremely capable, and supremely inconsistent, Russian ball bashers. New York Sun

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