thaibel Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 People who loves tennis will know Kim as the friendly, always smiling pro. She stopped early her career because she wanted to start a family with an American baseball-player, who played in Belgium. She was with the other Belgian Justine Henin one of the topplayers in women tennis. They both stopped quite early for different reasons. I still follow the tennisworld. I heard it before, but I thought it were just rumours.and I thought that she was training for some exhibition matches. This morning they anounced on the radio that Kim Clijsters soon would restart her tennniscareer. It was one of the last wishes from her father before he died last year. Kim will give a pressconference within two days about it. If so I wish her well and a lot of strenght. Eric (Belgium) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiamHotel Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 although i'm more of a player than a fun ; ) WELCOME BACK KIM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjotr75 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 I am sure she will succeed if she decided to do a comeback. Allthough she will struggle to beat the danish youngster Caroline Wozniacki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibel Posted March 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Some more information from her website: www.kimclijsters.be She seems to plan to play a lot of exhibition matches. Is it preparation for her comeback, getting some competition rythm or is it just for fun. We'll know the right answer on thursday when she'll give a press conference. Latest News 19-03-2009 Clijsters plays Krajicek in Rosmalen 14-03-2009 Kim to be part of the Saint Louis Aces 14-03-2009 Kim's match at Wimbledon sold out 25-02-2009 Kim will test new Wimbledon roof in match against Graf 03-02-2009 Clijsters is planning exhibition matches in 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibel Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 From Sport.be Welkom terug Kim Na wekenlange speculaties is het nieuws nu ook officieel. Kim Clijsters gaat terug tennissen. Na enkele exhibitiematchen maakt ze haar eerste verschijning in Cincinnati. Ook op de US Open komt ze in actie. (foto belga) Kim Clijsters won in 2005 de US Open. Het leek wel een staatszaak. Niet alleen Belgische kranten, ook CNN en The New York Times speculeerden over een mogelijke terugkeer van Kim Clijsters. Doet ze het of doet ze het niet? Wel, ze doet het! Clijsters zelf wil niet van een comeback spreken, wel van een tweede carrière. "Het begon heel onschuldig met me goed te willen voorbereiden voor die galawedstrijd in Wimbledon. Dat beviel me zo dat ik na een tijdje aan het trainen was zoals vroeger en dan komt gewoon de honger naar meer," vertelde Clijsters op een persconferentie op TC Boneput in Bree. Na de eerder aangekondigde exhibitiematchen op Wimbledon, in Rosmalen en de VS, maakt 'Kimmeke' haar officiële rentree op 10 augustus op het tornooi van Cincinatti. De week erop volgt Toronto. Die twee WTA-tornooien dienen als voorbereiding op de US Open, het vierde Grand Slam tornooi van het seizoen. Dat start op 31 augustus. De ex-nummer 1 van de wereld won de US Open in 2005. OOK IN BELGIE Clijsters heeft ook aan de Belgische fans gedacht. Van 10 t.e.m. 13 december zal ze in elk geval opnieuw in België te zien zijn, op de vernieuwde versie van de Diamond Games. Dat is voortaan een invitatietornooi met acht absolute topspeelsters, in de Lotto Arena in Antwerpen. I'll try to translate shortly: Welcome back, Kim After weeks of speculations the news now is official. Kim Clijsters start playing tennis again. After a few exhibition matches she'll make her first appearance on the court of Cincinnati. Also at the US Open she'll be in action. Clijsters herself don't speak of a comeback, but rather a second career. "It all started very innocent with a good preparation for the galamatch in Wimbledon. That pleased me so that after a while I was training like I did before and then came the hunger for more", Clijsters told at the press conference at Bree. After the already planned exhibion matches Wimbledon, Rosmalen and the US she starts officialy on August 10 at Cincinnati. Next will be Toronto. Those two tournaments serve as a preparation for the US Open later, the fourth Grand Slam of the year. The former Nr 1 won the US Open in 2005. She'll also be playing in Belgium from 10 to 13 December in a new version of the Diamond Games, Antwerp, it becomes a kind of an invitation tournament with eight top players. *** end *** I did my best to translate, I hope you can forgive my not so perfect knowledge of English. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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