Hingis wore the clothing as part of a five-year $5.6m deal but while she competed in the US Open in New York in Spetember 1998, she sustained a foot injury, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan’s State Supreme Court.
In October 1998 she withdrew from tennis tournaments in Germany and Switzerland when a doctor recommended that Tacchini modify her shoes. But this was never carried out.
Tacchini said that Hingis “damaged our image and our products because of her behaviour and extremely discredited statements concerning her main sponsor. We could not tolerate this attitude any longer.”
Martina Hingis, the world’s number one women’s tennis player has filed a $40 million lawsuit against Italian sportswear company Sergio Tacchini, claiming that they gave her shoes which hurt her feet between 1996 and 1999.
