Martina Hingis becomes Wimbledon's youngest ever winner
The Swiss Miss is now considered one of the most prolific in the women’s game, and at 17, she was already World No. 1, having won that year’s Australian Open and made the finals on the clay courts of Roland Garros, eventually losing to Iva Majoli.
Top seeded at Wimbledon in 1997, Hingis blazed past her opponents to register a three-set victory over Jana Novotna – dropping only a single set – which was in the final, en route to the title.
She became the youngest player in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam title, oustripping a record German ace Boris Becker had set before her.
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