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Hingis stopped short by Clijsters ... again

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

PARIS -- Melanie Molitor schemed shrewdly. She gave birth to a daughter on Sept. 30, 1980, in Kosice, Slovakia (it was known as Czechoslovakia in those days), and named her Martina, after Martina Navratilova. It was the timing, even more than the name, that would prove critical. Martina Hingis flowered early and, before the WTA age restrictions came into being, won her first Grand Slam singles title at the age of 16. She arrived just as the great champion Steffi Graf was leaving th ...

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