Dubai Premier: Kim Clijsters tests Muguruza, but Spaniard holds off ‘fan favourite’
It was perhaps Kim Clijsters’ misfortune to face Garbine Muguruza at a time when the statuesque Spaniard was regaining the formidable form that had won…
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Dubai 2020: Kim Clijsters begins comeback at 20th playing of Dubai’s Premier
Four-time Major champion and former No1, Kim Clijsters, has chosen the 20th anniversary edition of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships to begin her eagerly…
Kim Clijsters announces return to tennis after seven-year absence
Kim Clijsters, a former world No1 and multiple Major champion—in both singles and doubles—intends to rejoin the WTA tour in 2020 after retiring seven years…
Squash 2020: Agassi and Clijsters join Federer to back Olympic bid
The groundswell of support for squash’s campaign to join the 2020 Olympic family got another boost this week as some of the biggest names in…
Murray & the British belles: Ten memorable US Open 2012 moments
It turned into one of the most memorable US Open’s of recent years. The weather may have been familiar, the climax on a third Monday,…
US Open 2012: One story ends, another begins for Clijsters & Robson
Kim Clijsters was asked about her second-round opponent, Laura Robson, after comprehensively beating another teenager in her opening match. With her usual affable generosity, she…
US Open 2012: Can Laura Robson bring down curtain for Kim Clijsters?
Laura Robson has a mountain of a task ahead of her, and not just the test of her tennis. For in winning her first match…
Wimbledon 2012: Kvitova, Azarenka lead charge towards quarter-finals
When it came to predictions about who might win Wimbledon’s 2012 titles, there seemed to be one area of common ground. In the men’s draw,…
Wimbledon 2012: Will Sharapova’s rise dash Clijsters’ last hope?
Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova are two of the most popular women not just in tennis but in sport across the board. Both have been…
Former world No1 Kim Clijsters confirms she’ll retire after US Open
Former world number one Kim Clijsters has announced she will call time on a glittering career after the US Open in August. The 28-year-old is…
Williams & Watson, Clijsters & Azarenka light up Miami Masters
It could, in truth, be a Grand Slam, such is the line-up in Miami for the Sony Ericsson Open—one of the biggest, brightest and most…
Australian Open 2012: Clijsters, Williams, Sharapova target title
With so much talk of the “big four” in men’s tennis—can Novak Djokovic repeat his record-breaking 2011 antics, will Rafael Nadal overcome injury to win…
French Open 2011: Victory for Sharapova, defeat for Clijsters
It was always going to be a tough ask for everyone’s favourite tennis mum, Kim Clijsters. She came into Paris with a 15-match winning streak…
French Open 2011: Caroline Wozniacki eyes her first Slam
Caroline Wozniacki displaced Serena Williams as the top ranked player last October, aged just 20. Yet while she goes into the French Open this week…
Justine Henin retires from tennis due to elbow injury
Former world No1 Justine Henin has announced her retirement from tennis after failing to overcome persistent elbow injury
Tennis’ stars gear up for Australian Open Series
With the first grand slam of the new season fast approaching there is still plenty of opportunity to get those bodies and tactics in peak condition
Clijsters and Wozniacki shine in Doha as Dementieva quits
The year-end tournament between the best eight women on the tour was missing some of the major players of 2010 because of injury: key amongst them the Williams sisters and Justine Henin
US Open 2010: Kim Clijsters storms to third New York title
Kim Clijsters topped off an “incredible year” by storming to her third US Open title after thrashing Vera Zvonareva 6-2 6-1 in under an hour in New York
US Open 2010: Kim Clijsters sets up Vera Zvonareva final
Defending champion Kim Clijsters will meet Russia’s Vera Zvonareva in Saturday night’s US Open final after coming from behind to beat Venus Williams in New York
Williams sees off battling Schiavone in New York
enus Williams progressed into the last four at the US Open after overcoming French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (7-5) 6-4
Beaten Ivanovic blames nerves as Clijsters storms into last 8
Defending champion Kim Clijsters has warned her US Open rivals that she is improving with every match after breezing past Ana Ivanovic to reach the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows