Martina Hingis has shown she can still win tournaments by claiming the tier I event in Tokyo today. Hingis downed Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-2 to win a record fifth Toray Pan Pacific Open title. Hingis had met Ivanovic in a final last year in Montreal where Ivanovic was victorious. Hingis had extracted revenge in the semi-final on the person she lost last year’s championship decider against. Yesterday she had a comfortable win against Elena Dementieva 6-4, 6-3.

Hingis seems to really like the Tokyo event having won the title fives times and been runnerup on three occasions. It must be the food. The Tokyo title is the third tournament win for Hingis since she made her fulltime return to the tour in 2006. Hingis captured the tier I title in Rome and also the Kolkata title in India. Hingis has now won 43 career singles titles.

Next week the women’s tour moves to France and Thailand. The main tournament is the Tier II event in Paris while a Tier IV event is going to be contested in Pattaya City, Thailand. The Paris event marks the return to tennis for recent world no. 1 player Justine Henin. It will be interesting to see how she is hitting the tennis ball after her recent break from tournament play.

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