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Byline: Bonnie DeSimone
NEW YORK_Forgive Martina Hingis for her extreme bias about the outcome of the marathon, rain-interrupted Magnus Norman-Max Mirnyi match Sunday night.
She had a double vested interest. Norman, the No. 3 seed at the U.S. Open, is her boyfriend. That particular evening, she was scheduled to play her fourth-round singles match after he was done.
"Come on, get it over," she urged silently from the locker room, where she was watching on television.
In a reversal of gender stereotypes, the Swede made Hingis wait as he fought from two sets down to win in a fifth-set tiebreaker. "She'll probably kill me when I get home,"…