The former Wimbledon champion flew into Kloten airport near Zurich to see her mother and coach Melanie Molitor, absent from a major match for the first time in her daughter's career.

``There are always problems but we are doing fine together,'' Molitor told Blick newspaper. Many commentators have attributed Hingis's shock 6-2 6-0 defeat by Australian Jelena Dokic to the absence of her influential mother.

Before she left London, the 18-year-old Hingis told reporters: ``We do not have a crisis.'' She said she wanted to consult her mother about the future.

Hingis, who won Wimbledon in 1997, also pulled out of playing women's doubles at the All England Club with Russian Anna Kournikova, citing a recurring heel injury.

Her humiliation on the Wimbledon grass followed a melodramatic performance in the French Open final against Steffi Graf when Hingis was booed by the crowd for petulant behavior which included crossing the net to argue a call and serving underarm at matchpoint.

A tearful Hingis had to be coaxed back on court by Molitor to watch Graf collect the trophy.

The Swiss press compared Hingis's problems with the saga of the nation's other top player, Patty Schnyder, who was dropped from the Fed Cup team after breaking away from her trainer and family to follow a German guru, Rainer Harnecker.

In an article headlined ``One crisis, two personalities,'' Blick said Hingis and Schnyder had ``pushed aside their dearest ones in their natural struggle for independence and adulthood.''

Schnyder, who has now split with Harnecker, lost in the first round at Wimbledon.