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==Personal life== <!--Please note that I have removed all statements about the ethnicity of Ms Hingis's parents, because it frankly does not matter here, and because it has become the focus of a really, really, REALLY stupid edit war. Whether her father was an ethnic Slovak, an ethnic Hungarian, or an ethnic Maori DOES NOT MATTER. If you restore this content to the article, I will block you for a period no less than one month. This is your only warning. --> Hingis was born in [[Košice]], [[Czechoslovakia]] (now in [[Slovakia]]) as Martina Hingisová,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/martina-hingis-still-blazing-20-years-after-first-grand-slam/201773/ |title=Martina Hingis: Still Blazing, 20 Years after First Grand Slam |work=This Day Live |date=14 February 2015 |access-date=19 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702074359/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/martina-hingis-still-blazing-20-years-after-first-grand-slam/201773/ |archive-date=2 July 2015}}</ref> to Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis, both of whom were tennis players.<ref name="Encarta">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761594679/martina_hingis.html |title=Martina Hingis |encyclopedia=[[Encarta]] |access-date=31 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028134258/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761594679/Martina_Hingis.html |archive-date=28 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2020}} Molitorová was a professional tennis player who was once ranked tenth among women in Czechoslovakia, and was determined to develop Hingis into a top player as early as pregnancy.<ref name="SportsIllustrated97">{{cite magazine |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1997/womenmag/blueskies.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124000100/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1997/womenmag/blueskies.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 January 2001 |title=Blue Skies |magazine=Sports Illustrated |author=Dana Kennedy |year=1997 |access-date=31 October 2008}}</ref> Her father was ranked as high as 19th in the Czechoslovak tennis rankings. Martina Hingis spent her early childhood growing up in the town of [[Rožnov pod Radhoštěm]] (now in the [[Czech Republic]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.blesk.cz/clanek/sport-blogy/97795/dopingove-afery-ceskych-hvezd.html |title=Dopingové aféry českých hvězd! |work=Blesk |date=26 August 2008 |access-date=18 July 2013 |archive-date=5 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305104227/https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/sport-blogy/97795/dopingove-afery-ceskych-hvezd.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother defected from Czechoslovakia in 1987<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=The Prague Post |title=Illegal-ID flap engulfs tennis prodigy Hingis |url=http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/24520-illegal-id-flap-engulfs-tennis-prodigy-hingis.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130723073551/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/24520-illegal-id-flap-engulfs-tennis-prodigy-hingis.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2013 |date=29 August 1996}}</ref> and emigrated to [[Wartau|Trübbach (Wartau)]] in Switzerland when she was seven.<ref name="SportsIllustrated97" /> Her mother remarried to a Swiss man, Andreas Zogg, a computer technician.<ref name="So, tell me about your mother">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/jun/03/tennis.features |title=So, tell me about your mother |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=3 June 2001 |location=London |first=David |last=Jones |access-date=15 December 2016 |archive-date=2 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902133732/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/jun/03/tennis.features |url-status=live }}</ref> Hingis acquired Swiss citizenship through naturalization. Along with her native [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[German language|German]], Hingis speaks English and [[French language|French]]. Hingis became engaged to Czech tennis player [[Radek Štěpánek]] in November 2006, but the couple broke off the engagement in August 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tennis-Hingis and Štěpánek split up |first=Simon |last=Cambers |date=11 August 2007 |work=[[Reuters]] |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennisNews/idUKL1111708120070811?feedType=RSS&feedName=tennisNews |access-date=4 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070904121525/http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennisNews/idUKL1111708120070811?feedType=RSS&feedName=tennisNews |archive-date=4 September 2007 }}</ref> In December 2009, Hingis became engaged to then-38-year-old Andreas Bieri, a Swiss attorney she had been living with since the summer of 2009,<ref>{{cite web |title=Exklusiv-Interview mit Martina Hingis «An meiner Hochzeit möchte ich wie Cinderella aussehen» |language=de |trans-title=Exclusive interview with Martina Hingis "I want to look like Cinderella at my wedding" |first=Flavia |last=Schlittler |date=7 March 2010 |work=[[Blick]] |url=http://www.blick.ch/people/schweiz/an-meiner-hochzeit-moechte-ich-wie-cinderella-aussehen-142054 |access-date=13 June 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309011133/http://www.blick.ch/people/schweiz/an-meiner-hochzeit-moechte-ich-wie-cinderella-aussehen-142054 |archive-date=9 March 2010}}</ref> but the couple broke off the engagement in April 2010.<ref>{{cite news |title=Verlobung aufgelöst: Martina Hingis ist wieder solo |language=de |trans-title=Engagement dissolved: Martina Hingis is solo again |date=13 April 2010 |work=[[Aargauer Zeitung]] |url=https://www.a-z.ch/news/people/liebesaus-bei-martina-hingis-7699026 |access-date=13 June 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415054109/http://www.a-z.ch/news/people/liebesaus-bei-martina-hingis-7699026 |archive-date=15 April 2010}}</ref> On 10 December 2010, in Paris, Hingis married then-24-year-old Thibault Hutin, a French equestrian [[show jumper]] she had met at a competition in April of that year. On 8 July 2013, Hingis told the Swiss newspaper ''[[Schweizer Illustrierte]]'' the pair had been separated since the beginning of the year. On 20 July 2018, Hingis married sports physician Harald Leemann in Switzerland in a secret ceremony at the [[Grand Resort Bad Ragaz]]. Hingis and Leemann had been in a relationship for almost a year before they got married. They were both 37.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sloanmagazine.com/martina-hingis-wedding-grand-resort-bad-ragaz/ |title=Martina Hingis and Harry Leemann say "I do" at the Grand Resort Bad Ragaz |work=SLOAN! Magazine |publisher=SLOAN! |date=2018 |accessdate=12 September 2021 |archive-date=12 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912155740/https://www.sloanmagazine.com/martina-hingis-wedding-grand-resort-bad-ragaz/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> On 30 September 2018 (her 38th birthday) Hingis announced, via social media, her first pregnancy. She gave birth to a daughter, Lia, on 26 February 2019. The couple divorced in August 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Martina Hingis separates from Harald Leemann |url=https://www.zug4you.ch/en/news/news-articles/a/martina-hingis-separates-from-harald-leemann |access-date=2024-08-30 |website=ZUG4YOU}}</ref>
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