Former world number one Martina Hingis is expected to headline this weekend’s Esurance Tennis Classic. It takes place at Harbor Point Tennis Club located in Mill Valley, California.

The five-time Grand Slam winner will join a line-up of men and women Grand Slam legends who will compete during the weekend Celebrity Pro-Am and World Team tennis Shoot-Out benefiting To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer Support Network & the Youth Tennis Advantage.

Hingis is still serving a two-year suspension for cocaine use, but is allowed to play exhibition events.

You can find more information about the Esurance Tennis Classic at www.tennisclassic.org. (via On the Baseline)

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Hahaha, this is brilliant, I don't know who came up with the idea to mock women's fascination with generally-considered-ugly Radek Stepanek, but this picture is fantastic! Haha, Maria Sharapova fights with Nicole Vaidisova over Radek, while other tennis stars crave for his attention. Hihihi.

People are so confused by Stepanek’s success with women, and are still searching for the mystery thing that makes him attractive and irresistible to beautiful female tennis players. Read more »

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After retiring from tennis in November and receiving a two-year ban for being found guilty of doping in January, former world number one Martina Hingis will play at the Liverpool International tennis tournament. The 27-year-old Swiss star is allowed to play Liverpool as the tournament is invitational and not part of the WTA Tour.

"I have heard a lot about Liverpool over the years and all the fine work they have done up there to develop tennis in a region that is mostly famous for football," said Hingis.

"I am very much looking forward to playing the event and to visit all the things that have made Liverpool the European Capital of Culture."

The tournament director Anders Borg will be glad to welcome the five-time Grand Slam champion: "It is a great boost for us to have Martina playing in Liverpool.

"She still has a lot to offer the world of tennis and we are just very pleased we can take advantage of that."

The tournament takes place at Calderstones Park from 10-15 June. (source: BBC, photo via All Posters)

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The series of photos of tennis players when they were kids continues, this time we have Martina Hingis.

Hingis recently ended her career, most certainly not in a way she wanted, but that can't overshadow all the heights she has achieved during the time she played tennis as a professional.

I would like to accompany these childhood photos of Martina Hingis with a short story about the beginnings of her impressive tennis career.

Both Hingis’ parents were tennis players, and they named their daughter Martina, after tennis star Martina Navratilova. Hingis started playing tennis when she was only two years old, and entered her first tournament at the age of four. Read more »

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Retired tennis star Martina Hingis was banned for two years on Friday after an independent tribunal confirmed the doping offence.

Hingis retired in November following her positive test for cocaine at Wimbledon 2007. The five-time Grand Slam champion denied taking cocaine but said she had "no desire to spend the next several years of my life reduced to fighting against the doping officials." Read more »

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