On Sunday Martina Hingis the comeback queen withdrawl the year to assert her primary Grand Slam heading since 2006, securing the Australian Open mixed doubles crown along with her partner veteran Leander Paes.
The old performers, who are seeded at 7th, were in their primary big excursion as a coupling and drew on all their experience to get the 3rd seeds, France´s Kristina Mladenovic and Canadian Daniel Nester 6-4, 6-3.
Hingis victory maintained twenty years following her primary match in Melbourne while she was 14 years old and later then coming out of retirement less than a year.
The holder of 5 Grand Slam Hingis currently maintain eleven major double crowns, 9 women and 2 mixed.
At Melbourne Park in the mixed doubles was her last big approach along with her Mahesh Bhupathi from India in 2006.
The 41 year old Paes has got the 8th men’s doubles and 7 mixed doubles Grand Slam and mentioned that he scheduling to target more along with retirement on his mind.
Last year Hingis came out of 6 year retirement while she was 34 year old partnering with Flavia Pannetta from Italy to make the US Open women’s double finale.
She mentioned that she had not been actually away from the tennis.
Veterans Hingis & Leander Paes
She admitted “I actually never been fully out of the action away from the game. Tennis was always part of my life one way or another”
At this stage although she has no schedule to show up into singles, she is dedicated to perform double and she is even bearing in mind the 2016 Olympics in Rio.