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31/01/2025

31st January...

On This Day In 1949, Television Series, "These Are My Children " made its debut...

31/01/2025

31st January...

On This Day In 2012, The Toyota Corolla Officially became the best sold nameplate of all time...

31/01/2025

30th January...

On This Day In 1948, an incumbent Indian Prime Minister was assassinated...

25th January ON THIS DAY IN 1997, MARTINA HINGIS BECAME THE YOUNGEST WOMAN TO WIN A TENNIS GRAND SLAM SINGLES TOURNAMENT...
29/01/2025

25th January


ON THIS DAY IN 1997, MARTINA HINGIS BECAME THE YOUNGEST WOMAN TO WIN A TENNIS GRAND SLAM SINGLES TOURNAMENT AT 16, A RECORD NO ONE HAS BROKEN, AT THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN IN MELBOURNE







On this day in 1997, Swiss teenage tennis star Martina Hingis became the youngest woman to win a grand Slam singles title since Lottie Dod won the 1887 Wimbledon Championships by beating Frenchwoman Mary Pierce in the 1997 Australian Open final 6–2, 6–2.

Fourth-seeded Hingis did not lose a set in the entire tournament.

She became the youngest woman (at the age of 16 years and three months) to win a Grand Slam singles title.

Monica Seles was the defending champion, but did not compete that year.

Steffi Graf's 45-match major winning streak came to an end (started from 1995 French Open) when she was defeated by Amanda Coetzer in the fourth round.

Until 2019, this would remain the last time that the top three seeded players would fail to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.

Earlier in 1996, Hingis became the youngest Grand Slam champion of all time, when she teamed with Helena Suková at Wimbledon to win the women's doubles title at age 15 years and 9 months.

Both of her records are yet to be broken.

She also won her first professional singles title that year at Filderstadt, Germany.

She reached the singles quarterfinals of the 1996 Australian Open and the singles semifinals of the 1996 US Open.

Following her win at Filderstadt, Hingis defeated the reigning Australian Open champion and co-top ranked (with Steffi Graf) Monica Seles in the final in Oakland, but lost to Graf in the year-end WTA Tour Championships final in five sets.
In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed World No. 1 women's tennis player.

She started the year by winning the warm-up tournament in Sydney.

She then became the youngest Grand Slam singles winner in the 20th century by winning the Australian Open.

She also won the Australian Open women's doubles with Natasha Zvereva.

In March of that year, she became the youngest top ranked player in history at 16.

In July of that year, she became the youngest singles champion at Wimbledon at 16 since Lottie Dod in 1887 by beating Jana Novotná in the final.

She then defeated another up-and-coming player, Venus Williams, in the final of the US Open.

The only Grand Slam singles title that Hingis failed to win in 1997 was the French Open, where she lost in the final to Iva Majoli.

Before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in early 2003, at the age of 22, she had won 40 singles titles and 36 doubles titles and, according to Forbes, was the highest-paid female athlete in the world for five consecutive years, 1997 to 2001.

After several surgeries and long recoveries, Hingis returned to the WTA Tour in 2006, climbing to world No. 6, winning two Tier I tournaments, and receiving the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year.

She retired in November 2007 after being hampered by a hip injury for several months.

In July of 2013, Hingis again returned from retirement to play the doubles events of the North American hardcourt season.

During her doubles-only comeback, she won four major women's doubles tournaments, six major mixed doubles tournaments (completing the career Grand Slam in mixed doubles), 27 WTA Tour titles, and the silver medal in women's doubles at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Hingis retired for the third and final time after the 2017 WTA Finals, while ranked as the world No. 1 in doubles.

Widely considered an all-time tennis great, Hingis was ranked by Tennis magazine in 2005 as the eighth-greatest female player of the preceding 40 years.

She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by TIME in June 2011.

In 2013, Hingis was elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and was appointed two years later the organization's first ever Global Ambassador.





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29/01/2025

29th January...

ON THIS DAY IN 1886, CARL BENZ PATENT THE FIRST GASOLINE-POWERED ENGINE FOR HIS PRODUCT, THE MERCEDES BENZ...

29/01/2025

29th January...

ON THIS DAY IN 2002, IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GEORGE W. BUSH, MENTIONED IRAN, IRAQ AND NORTH KOREA AS REGIMES THAT SPONSORS TERRORISM...

29/01/2025

28th January...

ON THIS DAY IN 1813, JANE AUSTEN'S BOOK, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" WAS PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM...

28/01/2025

28th January...

ON THIS DAY IN 1985, SUPERGROUP FOR AFRICA, WE ARE THE WORLD, RECORDED ITS HIT SINGLE WE ARE THE WORLD...

27/01/2025

27th January...

On This Day In 2002, an explosion in a Military Armory in Lagos, Nigeria caused over 1000 deaths and injuries to over 5000 others while over 20,000 persons were displaced...

27/01/2025

27th January...

On This Day In 1996, Germany first observed the national holocausts Memorial and Remembrance Day...

27/01/2025

27th January...

On This Day In AD 98, the leadership of the Roman Empire changed hands...

27/01/2025

26th January…

On this day in 1986, the Ugandan government of Tito Okello was overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni…

27/01/2025

26th January…

On this day in 1952 in Egypt, rioters burnt Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses in what is today known as the Black Saturday.

27/01/2025

25th January...

ON THIS DAY IN 1979, POPE JOHN PAUL II STARTED HIS FIRST OFFICIAL PAPAL VISITS OUTSIDE OF ITALY...

27/01/2025

24th January...

On This Day In 1943, in a bid to end the World War, President of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had an agreement following a meeting in Morocco on behalf of allied nations in what is today known as "The Casablanca Declaration".

25/01/2025

25th January...


ON THIS DAY IN 1971, COMMANDER OF THE UGANDAN ARMY, MAJ. GEN. IDI AMIN DADA LED A COUP WHICH DEPOSED THE GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT MILTON OBOTE AND BECAME UGANDA'S MAXIMUM RULER...

25/01/2025

24th January...

On This Day In The Year 914, The first Fatimid invasion of Egypt began...

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31st January... On This Day In 1949, Television Series, "These Are My Children " made its debut...

31st January... On This Day In 2012, The Toyota Corolla Officially became the best sold nameplate of all time...

30th January... On This Day In 1948, an incumbent Indian Prime Minister was assassinated...

29th January... ON THIS DAY IN 1886, CARL BENZ PATENT THE FIRST GASOLINE-POWERED ENGINE FOR HIS PRODUCT, THE MERCEDES BENZ...

29th January... ON THIS DAY IN 2002, IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GEORGE W. BUSH, MENTIONED IRAN, IRAQ AND NORTH KOREA AS REGIMES THAT SPONSORS TERRORISM...

28th January... ON THIS DAY IN 1813, JANE AUSTEN'S BOOK, "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" WAS PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM...

28th January... ON THIS DAY IN 1985, SUPERGROUP FOR AFRICA, WE ARE THE WORLD, RECORDED ITS HIT SINGLE WE ARE THE WORLD...

27th January... On This Day In 2002, an explosion in a Military Armory in Lagos, Nigeria caused over 1000 deaths and injuries to over 5000 others while over 20,000 persons were displaced...

27th January... On This Day In 1996, Germany first observed the national holocausts Memorial and Remembrance Day...

27th January... On This Day In AD 98, the leadership of the Roman Empire changed hands...

26th January… On this day in 1986, the Ugandan government of Tito Okello was overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni…

26th January… On this day in 1952 in Egypt, rioters burnt Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses in what is today known as the Black Saturday.

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