{"id":7651,"date":"2013-08-03T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/hingis-rules-out-singles-comeback\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T13:40:06","slug":"hingis-rules-out-singles-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/hingis-rules-out-singles-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Hingis rules out singles comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Martina Hingis made a winning return in doubles but insisted she has no plans for a singles comeback.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old Swiss retired in 2007 but last month accepted a wildcard invitation to partner Slovakia\u2019s Daniela Hantuchova at the Southern California Open.<\/p>\n

The pair wrapped up the first set against Julia Goerges and Darija Jurak 6-1 inside 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

And a 6-1 success in the second set meant victory was achieved inside 52 minutes at the Omni La Costa resort.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to come out and play one or two matches and then lose third round, that\u2019s not my type of personality. So (\u2018I\u2019m not returning to singles), not at this point, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hingis, who has been helping to coach Russian star Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of late, has more wild cards to take up at forthcoming tournaments and also plans to play doubles at the US Open.<\/p>\n

She explained the reason behind her return, \u201cI always had it in the back of my head, probably the last six years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut now having been back so much closer to it – helping Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and being closer to the game, closer to the matches, mostly the doubles, I felt like I should try it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ruling out a return to singles, Hingis – a winner of five Grand Slam singles titles early in her career – added: \u201cIt\u2019s a completely different world. Even World Team Tennis now, it\u2019s brutal, it\u2019s only one set but still the next day you wake up, and you have to put so much more effort into it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying tournaments is the easy part – it\u2019s the grind behind it that\u2019s tough, the things behind the scenes that people don\u2019t see, the six to eight hours of training, and the older you get the more rehab you have to do. When you\u2019re 17 everything seems so easy, but now I\u2019m almost twice the age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to come out and play one or two matches and then lose third round, that\u2019s not my type of personality.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo (\u2018I\u2019m not returning to singles), not at this point, no.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Hingis says her doubles appearances are not simply a fad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is a complete disaster, I would not want to continue,\u201d she said when asked about playing beyond the US Open, \u201cbut hopefully that\u2019s not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

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