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Switzerland's Martina Hingis celebrates
her quarterfinal win over Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Rogers Cup
tennis tournament in Montreal, August 18, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo)
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>>> | OTTAWA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) --
Former world number one Martina Hingis is projected to make her Top 10 return on
Monday's Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Singles Rankings, at No.10, after reaching the
final of the Montreal Cup on Saturday.
It will be her first time inside the Top 10 since October
13, 2002 as she had spent just over six straight years ranked in
the game's elite before dropped out on October 14.
Hingis won the first set 6-3 and was leading 3-1 in
the second when the unseeded Russian Anna Chakvetadze pulled out with an arm
injury, ensuring that Hingis would rise from the No. 12 spot where she started
the week.
The seventh-seeded Swiss next faces ninth-seeded
Russian Dinara Safina or Ana Ivanovic of Serbia Montenegro, whose semi-final was
suspended by rain.
Ivanovic was leading 6-1 3-4 when the rain started.
The players briefly returned to the court when it stopped, but just before play
was to resume the rain started falling again.
The match will be completed on Sunday morning before
the final.
Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam champion and the
champion in Montreal in 1999 and 2000, was the youngest top-ranked player in
1997 when she was 16.
But she was forced out of competitive tennis for three years with ankle and foot injuries before returning to the WTA Tour at the beginning of the season. Enditem [1] [2] [3] [4]
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