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Kim Clijsters

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Kim Clijsters

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Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (IPA-nlk?m ?kl?ist?rs-Nl-be kim clijsters.ogg; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian professional tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 (List of WTA number 1 ranked players) ranked player in singles and in doubles. As of May 10, 2010, Clijsters is ranked World No. 10.

Clijsters has won 37 WTA (Womens Tennis Association) singles titles and 11 WTA doubles titles. She won the US Open (US Open (tennis)) singles title in 2005 and 2009. She has also won the WTA Tour Championships singles title in 2002 and 2003. In doubles, shes won the French Open and Wimbledon (The Championships, Wimbledon) titles in 2003. Clijsters was twice a singles runner-up at the French Open and a one-time runner-up at the Australian Open, also reaching two Wimbledon singles semi-finals. She announced her retirement with immediate effect on 6 May 2007, but almost two years later, on 26 March 2009, she publicly declared her intent to return to the WTA tour for the 2009 summer hard court season. In only her third tournament back, she won her second US Open (US Open (tennis)) title, becoming the first unranked player and wildcard (Wild card (sports)#Professional_Tennis) to win the tournament, and the first mother to win a major since Evonne Goolagong in 1980.

Playername: Kim Clijsters

Residence: Bree (Bree, Belgium), Belgium

Date of birth: 1983-06-08

Placebirth: Bilzen, Belgium

Height: 1.74 Mtr

Weight: 68 Kg

Turnedpro: 17 August 1997

Plays: Right-handed; two-handed backhand

Careerprizemoney: US$16,433,856

source: wikipedia.org

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