ZIELONA GORA, Poland — It is not a gimmick and the way Martina Hingis is talking, it will be no mismatch either. The original ‘Swiss Miss’ means to be a hit again on her return to big-time singles combat in a Fed Cup match against Poland on Saturday.
After the Swiss announcement on Friday, made amid some excitement in a provincial Polish town hall, that she will play her first tour-level singles for eight years against Agnieszka Radwanska in the World Group playoff, Hingis declared: “I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t think I could help the team.