Athlete. Born Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters upon Jun 8, 1983 in Bilzen, Limburg, Belgium. Clijsters was born in to an jaunty family; her father, Lei, was an general soccer player and mom Els was a Belgian acrobatic exercises champion. Clijsters chose the competition of tennis at an early age and, by the time she was six, she began competing in the sport.
By 1992, Clijsters had turn an achieved pledge player. Impressed with the immature Belgian’s jaunty abilities, tennis manager Bart Van Kerckhoven motionless to manager Clijsters. With Van Kerckhoven’s help, the 11-year-old Clijsters won the Belgian Junior Championship in 1994.
At the age of 13, Clijsters motionless to file her diversion serve by in attendance the Wilrijk tennis school. During her time at Wilrijk, Clijsters left the origin of Van Kerckhoven and began precision with manager Carl Maes. In 1998, at the age of 15, Clijsters wowed fans with her youth grandslam sucess, apropos the youngest National A hold up in history. That same year, she additionally placed 11th in the Wimbledon youth event, and won the French and U.S. Open doubles titles with partners Jelena Dokic and Eva Dyrberg. Her successes land her at No. 4 in the International Tennis Federation youth doubles world ranking.
Clijsters done her veteran entrance in 1999 at the Women’s Tennis Association debate in Antwerp, Belgium. Although she suffers a detriment to initial seed Sarah Pitkowski, Clijsters creates it to the quarterfinals. That same year, she done it by the categorical pull at Wimbledon, though mislaid to Steffi Graf in the fourth round. She additionally reached the third turn of the U.S. Open, losing to Serena Williams.
Clijsters faced the waste well, and rebounded in 2002 by winning the Masters in 2002. In 2003, she won 9 singles tournaments and 7 doubles titles. Her successes that year warranted her the World No. 1 ranking, and became the initial player to strech the arrange though winning a Grand Slam singles title—an respect she would eventually consequence in the 2005 U.S. Open.
The tennis champion’s career was still upon the climb until 2007, when she presented fans with extraordinary news: she was timid from tennis to turn a wife and mother. Her time divided from the justice presented multiform highs and lows. In Jul of 2007, she personally tied together American basketball player Brian Lynch. The subsequent year, in Feb 2008, Clijsters gave bieing born to daughter Jada Ellie. A year later, in Jan 2009, Clijsters suffered a personal detriment when father Lei died of lung cancer.
In Mar of 2009, Clijsters voiced that she would be returning to tennis after reception wildcards for tournaments in Cincinnati and Toronto tournaments. She additionally motionless to contest in the U.S. Open. On Aug 10, she strictly returned to the game. She mislaid in the Cincinnati quarterfinals and in the third turn of the Toronto tournament, though done headlines when she rose from the ranks to win the U.S. Open.
The match, that was opposite tennis star Serena Williams, finished dramatically in the semifinals when Williams done scurrilous comments to a line judge. The coming out caused a indicate penalty, losing Williams the diversion upon a technicality. As a result, the 26-year-old Clijsters became the initial unseeded and unranked womanlike hold up of a Grand Slam title. She additionally became the initial mom to win a vital given 1980.
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