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Former world No. 1 Martina Hingis won’t make a comeback to competitive tennis.

Hingis, 29, announced in an interview with L’Equipe Tuesday that she is retiring from professional tennis and that she is happy with her new life.

“I’ve got a nice house, my four horses,” Hingis said. “On the tour, I had no life.”

On 1 November 2007, Hingis admitted she had tested positive for cocaine during Wimbledon in 2007. Even it was so, she denied to have taken the drugs and felt 100 percent innocent. Starting January 4 2008, she was banned from tennis for two years after both cocaine tests (samples A and B) turned positive. She has stated that she will not return to professional tennis when this ban expires. And on Tuesday’s interview, Hingis added that even without being tested positive, she likely would have retired.

“If I had won the four Grand Slam tournaments, maybe I would have continued,” she said. “But I was on downslope. And I was suspended for two years, and that was it.”

Hingis confided that she went through tough times during her suspension.

“I didn’t have the right to play any competition, even in another Olympic sport,” she said. “I didn’t have the right to feature in equestrian competition, even at an amateur level. … I’m not sure I have completely recovered.”

Hingis said she learned that her suspension was over on Sept. 30 — her birthday — a few days after undergoing a private drug test on a hair sample at her home.

“They thought maybe, like you, that I was planning a second comeback,” she said.

After several surgeries and long recuperations in 2002, Martina Hingis then climbed to world number 6 and won three singles titles. She spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles; three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open.