I found that other article u were talking about b4 Smash.
I may as well post this one too:
Hingis back in the hunt for top spot while Stubbs pursues a grand plan
By Ben Wyld
It's a new year and, like most, defending adidas International champion Martina Hingis has resolutions.
Not that she's prepared to give anything away, however.
"I have no specific goals ... just to do my best," she said.
"I'm a very simple person in a way."
And Hingis - battling the effects of jet lag - yesterday planned on bringing in the new year in subdued fashion.
"I'll probably just make it to the nine o'clock celebrations [fireworks]," she said.
Under the watchful eye of mother/coach Melanie Molitor, world No4 Hingis went through her paces during a mid-morning workout yesterday at Sydney's White City and later said she was enjoying the break from the spotlight of being the world's No1.
"I'm coming back from injury," she said. "I'm not the hunted anymore, I'm the hunter again. It's a nice position to be in.''
Hingis tested her recently injured right ankle during the practice session, hoping to acclimatise to the Australian summer and the thick smoke haze which continued to envelope the city from the surrounding bushfires.
"I heard a lot about it [Sydney's bushfires] overseas," she said. "Coming into Sydney I could smell it on the plane's air conditioning." The workout also gave glimpses of Hingis's varied game which, she said, she would persist with against stronger rivals also battling recent injury and indifferent form.
"With surgery you don't know how things are going to work out," she said. "My speed will be important ... Lindsay [Davenport] was injured and couldn't play her last match and Jennifer [Capriati] wasn't playing that great at the end of the year either."
Australian doubles specialist Rennae Stubbs also practised at White City yesterday and later singled out the French Open doubles title as her main goal for 2002.
A win on the slow clay in Paris would complete a career doubles grand slam for Stubbs, and her playing partner, American Lisa Raymond, who won Wimbledon and the US Open last year and the Australian Open doubles crown in 2000.
"The grand slams are where the motivation lies now and to sustain our No1 ranking," she said.
The outspoken Sydneysider said she was also looking forward to a possible return to Australia's Fed Cup team under new captain, Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley.
Stubbs criticised outgoing Fed Cup captain Lesley Bowrey, and co-selectors Nicole Bradtke and Liz Smylie, for her omission from the team after her Wimbledon doubles triumph.
Bowrey said the decision to omit Stubbs, leading up to the Fed Cup final in Madrid last November, was based on her limited experience with Australian partners and the need for a variety of singles options.
Though Stubbs was named in the squad for the Madrid final, she was unavailable to play due to a broken wrist.
"The biggest disappointment of 2001 was not being on the team," she said.
"Evonne's a nice person ... she's a positive person. With Lesley, there were too many years of the same person, it was time for a change."
French Davis Cup hero Nicolas Escude also arrived in Sydney yesterday. The 25-year-old returns to Australia after France's shock defeat of the host nation at Melbourne Park in November.
Having set up the Davis Cup victory with an upset win over world No1 Lleyton Hewitt in the first singles match, and then sealing a French victory by defeating Wayne Arthurs in the decisive fifth rubber, Escude enters next week's tournament as one of the favourites.
The 27th-ranked Escude will be joined by Davis Cup teammates Sebastien Grosjean, a semi-finalist last year, Arnaud Clement, and Fabrice Santoro.
The $1.7million tournament starts at Homebush Bay on Sunday.