Martina Hingis plays tennis.
Wildcard team Martina Hingis and Mahesh Bhupathi defeated sixth-seeded Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor 6 -- 3 , 6 -- 3 to win the Mixed Doubles title at the 2006 Australian Open tennis tournament . Leander Adrian Paes ( born 17 June 1973 ) is an Indian professional tennis player who is considered to be one of the best doubles and mixed doubles players of all time , having achieved a career Grand Slam in each discipline . Martina Hingis ( born 30 September 1980 ) is a Czechoslovak-born Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles world No. 1 . After several surgeries and long recuperations , Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006 , climbing to world No. 6 and winning three singles titles , and also receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year . The US Open Series is the seven-week summer tennis season linking twelve ATP World Tour and WTA Tour tournaments together .