MONTREAL, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Former women's world number one Martina Hingis and Czech Radek Stepanek, the highest profile couple in tennis, have broken off their engagement.
A spokesman for the ATP said on Saturday: "Radek asked me to pass on a message announcing that he and Martina Hingis have split up, they will remain good friends."
The pair became engaged last November when Stepanek proposed to Hingis in Prague.
Stepanek was beaten 7-6 6-2 by world number one Roger Federer in the semi-finals of the Montreal Masters on Saturday.

lol, sky, i know what you mean...

i never knew what to think about this relationship as i knew too less about radek...but, well, hope they are happy with their decision

isn't it weird? half the world seems to be seperating these days

as james blunt would say: goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend....

I think its also time for us to say the final goodbye to martina hingis.



Its really sad that she wants to quit professional tennis under these circumstances....

rumors already spread if she was about to retire a while ago, because her injuries won't go away, so i guess this is just another reason for her retirement

i don't know what to say, i already read her whole announcement and there is the talk about a hair test being negative and the B test being positive again...oh my, what's wrong with the world?
there aren't many other players with her cleverness on court, the tennisworld will surely miss that a lot

but if she's really doped, well...

Former world number one Martina Hingis, who retired from tennis in November after testing positive for cocaine, was banned for two years on Friday after an independent tribunal confirmed the doping offence.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) said in a statement that the 27-year-old Swiss would also forfeit the ranking points resulting from last year's Wimbledon championships and 65,500 pounds in prize money.

Hingis, a five-time grand slam champion, has denied taking cocaine but said in November she had "no desire to spend the next several years of my life reduced to fighting against the doping officials."

The ITF statement said the anti-doping tribunal had ruled after a two-day hearing last month that samples produced by Hingis at Wimbledon last June had tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine.

It rejected the suggestion made on behalf of the player that there were doubts about the identity or integrity of the sample attributed to her.

"The Tribunal also rejected Ms Hingis' plea of No [or No Significant] Fault or Negligence, on the basis that no mitigation was possible as it had not been shown how the cocaine entered her system," it added.

Larry Scott, chief executive of the WTA said in a separate statement: "We are saddened by this news as Martina has meant so much to fans the world over and made many positive contributions to the sport."

He added, however, that the WTA Tour fully supported the tribunal.

"We support and will enforce the ruling of this independent tribunal under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program," he said