Wimbledon Re-Lived 1997 - Martina Hingis: Sixteen, Sassy, Sensational

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1997, Martina Hingis beat Jana Novotna to become the youngest Wimbledon winner in the Open Era, aged 16. She also put together one of the best seasons in tennis history, winning all but one of her Grand Slam matches.

Are her achievements from that year underrated? How were her sassy comments and confidence received at the time? In what way did she sometimes get herself in trouble with remarks about fellow players? What made her such a joy to watch? And why did she not go on to dominate for years despite a couple of comebacks?

Mary Carillo and Lindsay Davenport give perspective on how the power revolution in women’s tennis caught up with Hingis, and Martina herself explains why she thinks players are no longer having the success she had as a teenager.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.

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We will be doing daily shows throughout the original Wimbledon dates, looking back on some of the tournament’s best matches and most important stories. Highlights of Martina Hingis’ title run in 1997 can be viewed on YouTube. Tomorrow we will be focusing on the fourth round match between Pete Sampras and Roger Federer in 2001 which is available in full, here.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm
0:05.2	like New York. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.8	Hello folks and welcome to Middle Sunday of Wimbledon or what would have been
0:25.2	Middle Sunday of Wimbledon, possibly one that they would have been playing on, given the
0:30.0	weather in London this week has been utterly ropy. But as it is, it's Middle Sunday of Wimbledon
0:37.6	Relived courtesy of the tennis podcast and the insatiable desire for podcasting of David Law. How
0:44.2	are you doing, David? Yeah, I'm alright. Someone would say that it still should be Middle Sunday.
0:49.4	Alas, here we are. And I'm delighted about that actually. Partly because we've just been
0:56.7	getting to watch another player that we love to watch who is going to be the feature of this one,
1:01.7	but also quite like talking to you too, really.
1:06.6	Can't get enough of it literally. How you doing, Matt? Sleep deprived?
1:10.0	I'm not allowed to be sort of snooty about doing it now after David's lovely words.
1:16.8	Yes, you are. Yes, you are, Matt. No, seriously, it's great. And I'm well, thank you.
1:23.3	Convincing, Matt. Convincing. We are in the territory now where you were alive. He's alive,
1:30.3	everyone. It's 1997. Do you remember what you were doing in 1997, learning to walk first words
1:39.6	any of that? I took ages to learn to walk. I developed a very good shuffle technique which
1:46.6	wore through all my shorts and trousers apparently and didn't learn to walk until I was about two, I think.
1:53.4	I think that's called crawling, Matt. No, no, I was on my bum.
2:00.9	I was posting my knees. What was your first word?
2:05.4	Don't know. Well, this has been a good segment. David, what were you up to in 1997?
2:13.2	I developed quite a good shuffling technique.
2:17.9	We're trying to move on for the bum shuffling technique. David, help me out here.
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