Kim Clijsters
Belgian tennis player / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters[1] (Dutch pronunciation: [kɪm ˈklɛistərs] ( listen); born 8 Juin 1983) is a Belgian retired profeesional tennis player. She is a umwhile warld no. 1 in baith singles an doubles.
Kim Clijsters at the 2011 Open GDF Suez | |
Kintra | Belgium |
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Residence | Bree, Belgium |
Born | (1983-06-08) 8 Juin 1983 (age 40) Bilzen, Belgium |
Hicht | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
Turned pro | 17 August 1997 |
Retired | 6 May 2007 Returned 11 August 2009 Seicont retirement 2 Sep. 2012 |
Plays | Richt-haundit (twa-haundit backhaund) |
Prize money | US $24,442,340 (3rd in oweraw earnins) |
Career record | 523–132 |
Career titles | 41 WTA (10t in oweraw rankings) 3 ITF |
Heichest rankin | No. 1 (11 August 2003) |
Australian Open | W (2011) |
French Open | F (2001, 2003) |
Wimbledon | SF (2003, 2006) |
US Open | W (2005, 2009, 2010) |
Tour Finals | W (2002, 2003, 2010) |
Olympic Gemmes | QF (2012) |
Career record | 131–56 |
Career titles | 11 WTA, 3 ITF |
Heichest rankin | No. 1 (4 August 2003) |
Australian Open | QF (2003) |
French Open | W (2003) |
Wimbledon | W (2003) |
US Open | QF (2002) |
Career titles | 0 |
Wimbledon | F (2000) |
US Open | 2R (2012) |
Last updatit on: 10 September 2012. |
Clijsters haes wan 41 WTA singles titles an 11 WTA doubles titles. She haes wan fower Grand Slam singles titles: three at the US Open, in 2005, 2009, an 2010 an ane at the Australian Open in 2011. She haes been runner-up in fower Grand Slam singles tournaments, an wan the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002, 2003, an 2010 an aw. In doubles, she wan the French Open an Wimbledon titles in 2003. Clijsters annooncit her retirement wi immediate effect on 6 Mey 2007,[2] but amaist twa years later, on 26 Mairch 2009, she publicly declared her intent tae return tae the WTA tour for the 2009 simmer haurd court saison.[3] In anerlie her third tournament back, she wan her seicont US Open title, becomin the first unseedit player an wildcard tae win the tournament, an the first mither tae win a major syne Evonne Goolagong in 1980.[4] She retired again efter the 2012 US Open.
In Juin 2011, TIME magazine namit her ane o the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future".[5] Accordin tae Forbes in August 2011, she became the fift heichest-peyed female athlete ower the past year.[6]