At 29 years old, Martina Hingis is hanging up her tennis racket and has announced that, when the two-year ban she incurred after testing positive for cocaine in 2007 is lifted, she will not be returning to competitive tennis.

"I’ve got a nice house, my four horses," Hingis said. "On the tour, I had no life.  If I had won the four Grand Slam tournaments, maybe I would have continued.  But I was on downslope. And I was suspended for two years, and that was it."
"I didn’t have the right to play any competition, even in another Olympic sport," she …read more

No need to warm up your pipes if you’re headed to the Australian Open. Singing isn’t allowed.
Not between points, anyway.
Things got a little crazy at the first-round match between Fernando Gonzalez of Chile and Konstantinos Economidis of Greece. Some of their respective countrymen pumped up the volume in a ready-to-rumble kind of way and threatened to put the “fan” into “fanatic.” Police stepped in to subdue the more obnoxious vocalists and all H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks broke loose.

Five fans were given the boot and three had a face-to-face encounter with pepper spray. The match was held up twice while the brouhaha was brought under control. Gonzalez moved onto the next round …read more

The good news about landing on Santa’s Naughty list during the first week of January is that you have many months to redeem yourself.  Both Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork and tennis player Martina Hingis thus have plenty of time to rescue kittens, plant trees, help little old ladies cross the street and whatever other behavior lands you on the Nice list. (Or just pay off the elves, which is what we do every year).
The bad news about being tagged Naughty are the non-Christmas consequences.
Take Vince Wilfork. While we likened his eye-poking incident in last week’s Patriots-Giants game to a send-up …read more

Is Halloween the holiday that keeps on giving or what?
A mere day after the spook- and sugar-filled festivities, Swiss tennis star Martina Hingis dispensed a shocking Pez of her own: She said, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out” to Tennis with a capital T.
The five-time Grand Slam champ is in a (powdery?) huff after testing positive for cocaine use at Wimbledon. Maybe this is what happened:
Martina: You cannot be serious! . . . *Wears self-satisfied smirk, pleased with herself for channeling John McEnroe’s famous remark* . . . Besides, my coach told me to do lines. 
Wimbledon Suit: Miss Hingis, might I …read more