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Hingis On Doubles Future


Martina Hingis is a multi-tasking master, who has adapted her game winning Grand Slam titles with multiple partners.

Hingis, who split with co-world No. 1 doubles partner Sania Mirza, debuts her partnership with American CoCo Vandeweghe in Cincinnati this week, marking her third partner in her last three tournaments.

Watch: Hingis, Mirza Split

Is an all-Swiss doubles pairing in Hingis' future?

The Hall of Famer and Timea Bacsinszky struck silver in their doubles debut at the Rio Olympic Games.

In just their fifth match together, the Swiss pair reached the gold medal match, bowing to Russia's Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina.

After the match, Hingis declined to elaborate on her split from Mirza, but did leave the door open to playing alongside Bacsinszky again.

"We already talked about it," Hingis told the media in Rio. "I think playing together like this, it was an amazing feeling. I think we really play well together. So it might be possible. I mean, for Timea, the singles is definitely priority. But at some point we might play together somewhere, sometime again.

"I think with Mirza, it's all been out there. I commented on that, so you can find it on Google or on Facebook."

Hingis and new partner Vandeweghe are seeded fourth in Cincinnati this week.


 

After three Grand Slam victories and eleven WTA doubles titles together, we have mutually agreed that we would each be open to playing with other players for the remainder of the season. Perhaps, because of our great past results, we have had very high expectations from our partnership and unfortunately did not get the results we desired recently. We would like to clarify that it was a totally professional decision based purely on our recent results. The professional decision has not and will not in any way affect the wonderful personal relationship that we continue to share. We also look forward to defending our title in the year-end WTA Finals in Singapore in October for which Santina has already qualified.We hope that this puts to rest some of the fabricated stories that have been doing the rounds in some sections of the media. Best Sania and Martina

A photo posted by Martina Hingis (@martinahingis80) on



The pair have a first-round bye and could draw Hingis' Fed Cup doubles partner, Belinda Bencic, and Kirsten Flipkens in the second round. Mirza and new partner Barbora Strycova are the seventh seeds and could only meet Hingis and Vandeweghe in the final.

Bacsinszky joked she's already asked Hingis to reunite for the 2020 Tokyo Games.

"If you asked me 10 years ago would I be here in Rio, I'd say, You're crazy, because I didn't play for six years," Hingis said. "Being able to play for gold, it's unbelievable. Alongside Timey, we were able to push, lift our level. The Russians were just too good today. Like I said, we had our opportunities. They were just better at the key moments. I mean, they're champions, as well.

"We're very proud of what we achieved this week."


Photo credit: ITF Olympic Tennis


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