Martina Hingis has ruled out a return to top-flight tennis, saying it would be "unimagineable". Instead, the 22-year-old Swiss is devoting herself to perfecting her English and to finally enjoying the financial fruits of her prodigious talent. "A return to competition is unimagineable. But there you go ... it is finished. Life goes on," the former world number one told French newspaper L'Equipe.
Hingis returned to the tour last August after undergoing ankle surgery in May but injury has continued to trouble her. She believes she will never be able to get fit enough to play at the highest level again. "I have been at the top long enough to know exactly what that entails and I am now incapable of it," she said.
Filed by James Boylan.
