Kim Clijsters made it look easy today against Venus Williams and showed no mercy in a match that turned into a massacre. In just 58 minutes, Clijsters was raising her arms in triumph with a 6-2, 6-1 win. Williams didn't seem to know what hit her. Clijsters claimed an early break in the third game
In a clash of the Belgian comeback kids, Kim Clijsters showed that she has come back just a teeny tiny bit more than Justine Henin. It was a 2 1/2 hour, 3-set, 2-tie-breaker battle, with Clijsters prevailing 6-2, 6-7(3), 7-6(6) at the 2010 WTA Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, USA. Clijsters took command of
The Belgium comeback kids at at each other's throats again, each having reached the Semifinals of the 2010 WTA Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, USA. And as misfortune would have it, they are on the same side of the draw. So Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters line up on opposite sides of the net
Still quite fresh out of retirement, Justine Henin of Belgium continued her dominance over No. 6 ranked Elena Dementieva of Russia in the 2nd round of the 2010 WTA Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida, USA. It was a convincing straight sets pounding, 6-3, 6-2. Henin didn't even concede a break point in the first
Sixth seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia was on a mission in the Indian Wells championship match, as she upended 2nd seed, Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, 6-2, 6-4. Jankovic, consistently hitting deep groundstrokes, broke the Dane in the first and third games of the match to race into a 4-0 lead. Although she surprisingly lost serve
Favorites Justine Henin of Belgium and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia both became victims of the 2nd round exit-disease, leaving fans to wonder why? What happened? How could that be? Ivanovic lost to 19 year-old Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4, while Henin fell victim to Gisela Dulko of Argentina in a see-saw
Kim Clijsters of Belgium, one of the few tennis playing moms on the WTA Tour, had taken her leave from Indian Wells thanks to the persistent play of Alisa Kleybanova of Russia. It was a tight match, going to a 3rd set tiebreak, with Kleybanova coming out on top, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (7-4). Clijsters was
The No. 1 seed at the 2010 WTA BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, USA, Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, made an early exit thanks to the determination of Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain. The second round upset took just under two hours, with two-time finalist Kuznetsova losing the last six points in a frustrating
The Billie Jean King Cup in the BNP Paribas Showdown took place on Monday night in New York, and the winner is seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, who defeated Kim Clijsters 6-4, 3-5, 7-5. The event began with the one-set, no-ad semifinals played at the Madison Square Garden. Kim Clijsters defeated Serena Williams' replacement
No. 26 ranked Alisa Kleybanova upset top-seeded No. 7 ranked Elena Dementieva in an all-Russian final at the 2010 WTA Malaysia Classic played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Feb. 22-28. It was an easy victory for Kleybanova who won in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Dementieva had not lost a set on her route to the final,
