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At age 12, she became the youngest player to win a major junior title at the 1993 French Open and two years later turned professional. “She’s lived in the spotlight,” says Pam Shriver. “She was the most highly publicized 12 year old ever to come out of Europe.”
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12: Age Hingis won the junior French Open title in 1993. She won three junior Slam titles in total. Hingis competing at Wimbledon in 1993. (Getty) 1994: Year Hingis made her WTA debut at the age of 14 at the Zurich Open.
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Hingis began playing tennis when she was two years old and entered her first tournament at age four. In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the French Open.
- 2013
- 138 lbs (62,5 kg)
- 5'7" (170 cm)
Feb 16, 2018 · Baby Martina entered her first tournament at 4, and at 12 became the youngest player to win a junior Grand Slam title, at the French Open. Four years later, as a 16-year-old, she became...
May 4, 2020 · Despite being just 16 years old, Hingis was no stranger to prime time. She had reached the semifinals of the US Open 12 months earlier in just her second trip to Flushing Meadows, and she made history in 1997 by winning titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon and reaching the final at the French Open.
The following year, at the age of twelve, she became the youngest player ever to win the Junior French Open, which is open to players up to eighteen years old. When she was thirteen, she won the Junior U.S. Open and the Junior Wimbledon, setting records for both as the tournament's youngest winner.
Jul 12, 2013 · She was also the youngest to reach No. 1 in singles; she ascended to the top as a 16-year-old in 1997, when she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and lost to Iva...
