Hingis rules out comeback to tennis - 網球

兩年禁賽期結束了，但Hingis明確表示不會再度復出了。
她說即使當初沒有被禁賽，現在應該也退役了，因為感覺自己那時已經在走下坡了。

PARIS (AP)—Martina Hingis won’t make a comeback to competitive tennis.

The 29-year old Hingis, who retired after getting a two-year ban in 2007 for
testing positive for cocaine, said Tuesday in an interview with L’Equipe
that she is happy with her new life.

“I’ve got a nice house, my four horses,” Hingis said. “On the tour, I had
no life.”

Hingis added that even without being tested positive, she likely would have
retired.

“If I had won the four Grand Slam tournaments, maybe I would have continued,
” she said. “But I was on downslope. And I was suspended for two years, and
that was it.”

Hingis, who spent 209 weeks at No. 1 in the women’s rankings and won five
Grand Slam singles titles, said she went through hard times during her
suspension.

“I didn’t have the right to play any competition, even in another Olympic
sport,” she said. “I didn’t have the right to feature in equestrian
competition, even at an amateur level. … I’m not sure I have completely
recovered.”

Hingis tested positive for cocaine after a third-round exit at Wimbledon in
2007. She denied using the drug.

Hingis said she learned that her suspension was over on Sept. 30—her birthday
—a few days after undergoing a doping test at her home.

“They thought maybe, like you, that I was planning a second comeback,” she
said.

Hingis quit tennis for the first time in 2002 because of foot and leg
injuries. When she returned to the circuit in 2006, Hingis reached two Grand
Slam quarterfinals, won two smaller tournaments and finished the year at No.
7.

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