Editing Martina Hingis (section)

=== Return to the game (2005–2007) ===

[[File:Martina Hingis Australian Open 2006.JPG|thumb|upright|Martina Hingis at the Australian Open, 2006]]

====2005====
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In February 2005, Hingis came out of retirement and made an unsuccessful return to competition. This took place at an event in [[2005 Volvo Women's Open – Singles|Pattaya]], Thailand, where she lost to Germany's [[Marlene Weingärtner]] in the first round. After the loss, she claimed that she had no further plans to continue further and make a full-fledged comeback.

Hingis, however, resurfaced in July, playing singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in [[World Team Tennis]] and notching up singles victories over two top 100 players and shutting out [[Martina Navratilova]] in singles on 7 July. With these promising results behind her, Hingis announced on 29 November her return to the next season's [[WTA Tour]].

====2006====
At the [[2006 Australian Open|Australian Open]], Hingis lost in the quarterfinals to second-seeded [[Kim Clijsters]]. However, Hingis won the mixed doubles title with [[Mahesh Bhupathi]] of India. This was her first career [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] mixed doubles title and fifteenth overall (5 singles, 9 women's doubles, 1 mixed doubles).

The week after the Australian Open, Hingis defeated world No. 4, [[Maria Sharapova]], in the semifinals of the [[Tier I]] [[Pan Pacific Open]] in Tokyo, before losing in the final to world No. 9, [[Elena Dementieva]]. Hingis competed in Dubai then, reaching the quarterfinals before falling to Sharapova. At the Tier I [[Pacific Life Open]] in Indian Wells, Hingis defeated world No. 4, [[Lindsay Davenport]] in the fourth round, before again losing to Sharapova in the semifinals.

[[File:Martina Hingis am Zurich Open 2006.jpg|thumb|left|Martina Hingis at the Zurich Open, 2006]]
At the Tier I [[Rome Masters|Italian Open]] in Rome, Hingis posted her 500th career singles match victory in the quarterfinals, beating world No. 18 Flavia Pennetta, and subsequently won the tournament with wins over Venus Williams in the semifinals and [[Dinara Safina]] in the final. This was her 41st WTA Tour singles title and first in more than four years. Hingis then reached the quarterfinals of the French Open before losing to Kim Clijsters.

At Wimbledon, Hingis lost in the third round to [[Ai Sugiyama]].

Hingis's return to the US Open was short lived, as she was upset in the second round by world No. 112, [[Virginie Razzano]] of France.

In her first tournament after the US Open, Hingis won the second title of her comeback at the Tier III [[Sunfeast Open]] in Kolkata, India. She defeated unseeded Russian [[Olga Puchkova]] in the final. The following week in [[Hansol Korea Open Tennis Championships|Seoul]], Hingis notched her 50th match win of the year before losing in the second round to [[Sania Mirza]].

Hingis qualified for the year-ending [[WTA Tour Championships]] in Madrid as the 8th seed. In her round robin matches, she lost in three sets to both [[Justine Henin]] and [[Amélie Mauresmo]] but defeated [[Nadia Petrova]].

Hingis ended the year ranked world No. 7. She also finished eighth in prize money earnings (US$1,159,537). Hingis also ranked as No. 7 on the Annual Top Google News Searches in 2006.<ref>[http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/google-zeitgeist-highlights-2006-searches/ Google Zeitgeist Highlights 2006 Searches] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928212644/http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/google-zeitgeist-highlights-2006-searches/ |date=28 September 2011 }}. Digitaltrends.com (29 December 2006). Retrieved 30 July 2011.</ref>

====2007====

[[File:Hingis Martina.jpg|thumb|Martina Hingis in Miami, Florida, 2007]]

At the [[2007 Australian Open – Women's singles|Australian Open]], Hingis won her first three rounds without losing a set before defeating China's [[Li Na (tennis)|Li Na]] in the fourth round. Hingis then lost a quarterfinal match to [[Kim Clijsters]]. This was the second consecutive year that Hingis had lost to Clijsters in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jan/25/tennis.australianopen2007 |title=Hingis comeback quest suffers repeat rebuff from Clijsters |access-date=25 January 2007 |location=London |work=[[The Guardian]] |first=Steve |last=Bierley |date=25 January 2007 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803181626/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jan/25/tennis.australianopen2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the third time in the last five [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tournaments that Clijsters had eliminated Hingis in the quarterfinals.

Hingis won her next tournament, the Tier I [[Toray Pan Pacific Open]] in Tokyo, defeating [[Ana Ivanovic]] in the final. This was Hingis's record fifth singles title at this event.

A hip injury that troubled her at the [[German Open (WTA)|German Open]] caused her to withdraw from the [[Rome Masters]], where she was the defending champion, and the French Open, the only important singles title that eluded her.

In her first round match at Wimbledon, Hingis saved two match points to defeat British wildcard [[Naomi Cavaday]], apparently not having fully recovered from the hip injury that prevented her from playing the French Open.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2007-06-25/200706251182793470187.html |title=I'm Not a Contender, Says Hingis |date=25 June 2007 |access-date=5 January 2008 |author=Kate Battersby |publisher=[[AELTC]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125015438/http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2007-06-25/200706251182793470187.html |archive-date=25 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the third round, Hingis lost to [[Laura Granville]] of the United States, and stated afterwards she should not have entered the tournament.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2007-06-29/200706291183145043812.html |title=Injury-hit Hingis Regrets Playing |publisher=AELTC |date=29 June 2007 |author=Kate Battersby |access-date=5 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125015442/http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2007-06-29/200706291183145043812.html |archive-date=25 January 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Hingis's next tournament was the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open, in which Hingis lost in the third round to Belarusian teenager [[Victoria Azarenka]]. Hingis did not play any tournaments after the [[2007 China Open (tennis)|China Open]], as she was beset by injuries for the rest of the year.<ref name=Photos>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7073957.stm |title=Martina Hingis's career in photos |publisher=BBC Sport |date=7 November 2007 |access-date=31 October 2008 |archive-date=13 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313145933/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7073957.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>