Hingis Article

One of the few good articles I've read on her (don't get too excited -- it's still tennis journalism). From the Telegraph.

It's very interesting at the end when she says she appreciates what her mother did to her, not what she did for her.

I've always loved (and perhaps been a bit horrified by) her mother's naming her after Martina Navratilova. Back when her mother and Navratilova were both tennis players in communist Czechoslovakia, Martina was ranked high enough that she was the one who got to leave the country to play -- she was the one who defected to the United States. Hingis's mother was stuck on the wrong side of the Cold War. As the article rightly points out, it's some kind of mother who has a daughter and names her after the one who made it out, because if she wasn't good enough to get out of Czechoslovakia, her daughter would be. And she was.

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