After the older and more advanced Martina Hingis embarrassed Anna Kournikova 6-0, 6-0 at the 1994 Junior U.S. Open, the acid-tongued Russian reportedly told her: “You won, but I’m prettier and more marketable than you.” But Hingis returned serve when in 1998 she crowed, “I’m sure she would like to change places with me, if she could, and have four Grand Slam titles.”
In November 2000 the two staged a raucous locker room fight (they reportedly threw trophies and bouquets at each other) at an exhibition in Santiago, Chile, that caused Hingis to dump her as a doubles partner. “Martina asked if I thought I was the queen—because the real queen was her,” Kournikova told the media. Later, in the clubhouse, Kournikova threw a crystal vase at Hingis that smashed on the floor. “It was so bad I thought they were going to beat each other,” former pro Jaime Fillol told the New York Post.
The talented twosome happily settled their differences and reunited as a doubles team in 2001 and captured their second Grand Slam crown together at the 2002 Australian Open.
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