Martina Hingis showed yesterday that she can be as tough off the court she is on it.
The No. 1 ranked female player grand slammed U.S. Open officials with a lawsuit claiming discrimination because her mother, who is also her coach, had been barred from the female players' locker room at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
But the lawsuit was withdrawn yesterday after the United States Tennis Association relented.
"It's been amicably withdrawn," said Hingis' attorney Marshall King. "Acceptable accommodations have been made."
In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Hingis mother, Melanie Molitor, claimed that it was unfair she has to change and shower in facilities several hundred yards from where her daughter dresses.
"Molitor is forced to traverse the National Tennis Center grounds and be separated from Hingis during the critical time before a match," the lawsuit claimed.
Molitor griped that male coaches were allowed to use the main men's locker room, located near the women's locker room.
The mother and daughter claimed their separate accommodations were "designed and intended to cause ... particular and unique harm to Hingis, jeopardizing the competitive fairness of the entire tournament."
But after the volley of legal briefs, it was game, set, match Hingis.