Remember the days when Martina Hingis and Lindsay Davenport were slamless? Well Im sure they never got as much shit as Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki currently get.
Former world number one Martina Hingis feels reserved about her chances of playing mixed doubles with her compatriot and 16-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer.
In order for Hingis to play in the Olympics, she would have to have a singles or doubles ranking by June 11, 2012, and in order for her to directly qualify, it would have to be a fairly high one of either top 56 in singles and top 10 in doubles. The ITF will only accept mixed doubles teams from players who are already on site in London having already qualified in singles or doubles.
“There are talks,” Hingis said in San Diego, where she was playing a pro-am. “There are too many ifs at this point. I always said I wasn’t coming back and I did, and after TeamTennis I felt good and with Serena winning Stanford [Hingis split matches with Williams in World TeamTennis]; it makes you think, ‘I played good against her and she beat Sharapova 3 and 1.’ So I’m like, ‘Wow I think I played a pretty good match’…But I don’t think I would last a whole match now. TeamTennis is only to five games.”
And she has also stated that there will be an immense amount of pressure on her since she is playing with a champion like Federer, ”To play with Roger you’d have to being playing great, right?’ she asked. She has also stated that she wanted to play doubles with Lindsay Davenport last year but that plan was never put into action. They did manage to win the 2011 French Open and Wimbledon seniors doubles titles.
Grand Slam champions Martina Navratilova and Lindsay Davenport have signed multiyear contract extensions with Tennis Channel.
Both are part of the channel’s coverage of the Australian Open, which starts in a week.
Navratilova will continue to be Tennis Channel’s lead match analyst in Melbourne. Davenport will work for the cable network at the season-opening major tournament for the first time, including sideline reporting.
Lindsay Davenport is planning to come back to the women’s doubles tour and will partner Liezel Huber.
Huber told Radio Roland Garros that Davenport has committed to play doubles at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California and the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, California.Since leaving the Tour for the second time in 2008 due to the birth of her daughter Lauren, Davenport has been working as a television commentator, most notably for Tennis Channel.
Martina Hingis is rumoured to be thinking of a comeback again to womens tennis, but this time only to play doubles. Hingis would possibly partner Lindsay Davenport on the doubles court. Martina is already booked in to play the Wimbledon veteran doubles even this year with longtime doubles partner Anna Kournikova.
It has been reported that three time Grand Slam champion Lindsay Davenport has given birth to her second child. Davenport gave birth to a healthy baby girl and she and husband Jon Leach cant be happier. They have named the new baby Lauren Andrus Davenport Leach. The married couple already have a two-year old son named Jagger.
Tony Godsick, the tennis star’s agent, said on Sunday that both the mom and daughter are doing great. He added that the other members of the family were ecstatic.
Lindsay Davenport is rumoured to be returning to Indian Wells next month but not as a player, as a reporter. Instead of headlining the competition in the desert, Davenport will take her place in the broadcast booth at the BNP Paribas Open.
I didnt know but the BNP Paribas Open is the most attended tennis tournament outside of the Grand Slams. Thus, Lindsay and former ATP player Justin Gimelstob will have a lot of commentating to do at the event.