Kim Clijsters

Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters at the 2012 US Open
Nation:	Belgium
Birthday:	June 8, 1983
Size:	174 cm
1st professional season:	1997
Resignation:	1) 2007 2) 2012
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money:	$ 24,461,695
singles
Career record:	523: 127
Career title:	41 WTA , 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (August 11, 2003)
Weeks as No. 1:	20th
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	131: 55
Career title:	11 WTA, 3 ITF
Highest ranking:	1 (August 4, 2003)
Weeks as No. 1:	4th
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Last update of the infobox: February 10, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Listen to Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters ^{? / i} (born June 8, 1983 in Bilzen ) is a Belgian tennis player . The eight-time finalist in Grand Slam tournaments and winner of the US Open in 2005 , 2009 and 2010 as well as the Australian Open in 2011 was world number one for several weeks in both singles and doubles.

Career

1999–2006: three Grand Slam titles

In 1998 Clijsters reached the Wimbledon finals as a junior , won the French Open in doubles alongside Jelena Dokić and the US Open with Eva Dyrberg .

She made her professional tennis debut in May 1999 in Antwerp . At the end of the year she won her first titles, singles in Luxembourg and doubles with Laurence Courtois in Bratislava . In 2001, she reached her first final in a Grand Slam tournament in Paris , where she was only barely defeated by Jennifer Capriati with 10:12 in the third set. She celebrated her first major success in 2002 at the WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles , where she defeated the then number 1, Serena Williams , in the final.

In 2001 Clijsters was also German team champion together with Barbara Schett , Miriam Schnitzer and others with the TC Blau-Weiss Bocholt . Kim Clijsters is still a member of this association today.

2003 was one of her most successful years. She won nine tournaments, including again the WTA Tour Championships, twice reached the finals of a Grand Slam tournament (she lost both to Justine Henin ), led the world rankings for a few weeks and finished the season in second behind Henin.

The year 2004 began with an ankle injury, which she healed in time for the Australian Open , and she lost the final again to Henin. Because of a tendinitis in his left wrist (contracted in March in Indian Wells ) and the surgical removal of a cyst, Clijsters missed ten months on the tour and fell back to 134th in the world rankings.

In 2005, after her comeback in Antwerp in February, she won the consecutive tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami in March , something that only Steffi Graf had achieved until then . Within six months she won another three tournaments, returned to the top ten and received the award “Comeback Player of the Year” in San Diego . In 16 tournaments played, she reached nine finals, all of which she won. No other player won more singles titles that year. For the first time, she also won a Grand Slam tournament in singles ( US Open , two-set victory over Mary Pierce ). She also helped the Belgian Fed Cup team defeat Argentina by winning both singles and doubles with Els Callens . For the second time in her career, she finished the season number 2 in the world.

2006 started with winning an invitation tournament in Hong Kong. Things went less well at the WTA tournaments. In Sydney , she injured her hip in training, so she had to cancel her quarter-final game. At the Australian Open, she entered with a sore hip and a battered back; she still came to the semi-finals against Amélie Mauresmo , where she defended her ankle in the third set. The injury forced Clijsters to take a two-month hiatus. The rest of the year was pretty successful again. She won in Warsaw and for the fourth time in Stanford , reached the semi-finals of the French Open and Wimbledon - both times she lost again to Henin - and led the Belgian team to the Fed Cup final. Due to another injury to her left wrist, she got out in Montreal in the second round. She had to do without her title defense at the US Open and participation in the Fed Cup final.

2006 at the Australian Open

2007: first resignation

Clijsters had already expressed thoughts of resignation in August 2005: “I think I'll quit after the 2007 season. My body gives me a lot of problems ”. "I'm only 22, but my body feels a lot older". In her professional career, which lasted seven years at the time, she had already had many injuries. Even after her wrist operation in 2004, the doctors had given her little hope of ever being able to play again. From then on, Clijsters divided her career into two phases: those before and after this serious injury. “Everything I can experience now is just a bonus”.

She started the 2007 season like the previous one with an exhibition in Hong Kong, where she defended her title with a victory over Maria Sharapova . At the tournament she started for the first time since her operation on the side of Svetlana Kuznetsova in doubles. A week later, like in 2003, she also won the tournament in Sydney. In Melbourne she gave up only one set on the way to the semi-finals, but then lost to Sharapova 4-6, 2-6. In Antwerp she reached the final, which she lost to Amélie Mauresmo 4: 6, 6: 7 ⁴ . At the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, she was eliminated in the round of 16 against Li Na . At her last clay court tournament in Warsaw, she also lost 6: 7 ³ , 3: 6 to Julija Wakulenko in the round of 16 . This match was initially considered to be the last of her career, because shortly after the Warsaw tournament, Clijsters announced on their website that they would immediately withdraw from professional tennis. "Now it's time for a new life," she said, adding:

“It was more than just beautiful. Now I hang up my rackets. After the fantastic and moving farewell at the tournament in Antwerp, the thread was broken. The recurring injuries, the laborious morning wake up and the hardened muscles only made it more difficult. There are also preparations for my wedding. All of this has been a reason not to continue. "

By then, Clijsters had won 34 singles titles, including a Grand Slam tournament (US Open 2005), and eleven double titles. She was the first Belgian female tennis player to top the WTA world rankings, which she held for a total of 19 weeks between 2003 and 2006.

2009–2012: Comeback with two US Open titles, second resignation

After the birth of their daughter, Clijsters announced her comeback at a press conference in her tennis club in Bree in March 2009: “It all started with the invitation to play against Steffi Graf at Wimbledon . I found that a great honor. I trained hard to be as fit as possible at Wimbledon. And since I had started to train harder again, the hunger returned. I'm still too young to sit around at home. "

2010 in Thailand

The first event she received a wild card for on her return was the WTA tournament in Cincinnati . In very good form, she advanced to the quarter-finals, in which she was defeated by the then world number one Dinara Safina in two sets. After reaching the last sixteen in Toronto , where she lost to Jelena Janković , she also started with a wildcard at the US Open. Here she crowned her comeback by winning the tournament for the second time since 2005, beating both Venus and Serena Williams en route to the final. She defeated Caroline Wozniacki 7: 5, 6: 3 in the final and finished the year as number 17 in the world rankings. In 2010 it exceeded the previous year's success. She won the tournaments in Miami (final victory over Venus Williams), Cincinnati (Sharapova), Brisbane (Henin) and again the US Open with a two-set win over Wera Swonaryova , against whom she was eliminated in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon. With the victory at the WTA Championships in Doha, she crowned the season.

At her first tournament in 2011 she reached the final in Sydney and was defeated by Li Na in two sets. At the Australian Open she faced Li Na again in the final, this time she won in three sets. Clijsters thus secured their first title in Melbourne and their fourth in a Grand Slam tournament. With a quarter-final victory over Jelena Dokić in Paris, she sat back at the top of the world rankings in February 2011 after 2003 and 2006. At the French Open, she lost Arantxa Rus (No. 114 in the world) in round two after failing to use two match points, 6: 3, 5: 7, 1: 6. Afterwards, she expressed doubts before the tournament whether she would have been better off not running because of her wrist problems. After the early exit, she took a longer break and finally canceled her participation in Wimbledon. She did not play another tournament until the end of the year.

She made another comeback in January 2012 in Brisbane, where she went straight to the semi-finals. She succeeded in the same in Melbourne, where the new world number one Wiktoryja Asaranka proved to be the stronger. In April, Clijsters canceled the entire clay court season in order to finally cure her hip injury. In Wimbledon, she was unable to participate due to a foot injury. When she first took part in the Olympics, she failed in the quarter-finals in London to Marija Sharapova. After her elimination from the US Open in round two against Laura Robson , Clijsters finally ended her career in August 2012. She played her last professional match alongside Bob Bryan , with whom she lost to Ekaterina Makarova and Bruno Soares in three sets in the mixed in the second round . On September 17, 2012, she was removed from the WTA world rankings, standing in 20th position.

2020: Another comeback

In September 2019, Clijsters announced a comeback for 2020. The first tournament she took part in was the 2020 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in February. She was eliminated after a two-set defeat in the first round against Garbiñe Muguruza .

Records

2003

• On August 10, 2003, she was number 1 in the WTA world rankings, on August 18, she was the fifth player in women's tennis to be number 1 in singles and doubles.
• She was the first player to be number one in the world without a Grand Slam title.
• In all tournaments in which she competed, she reached at least the semifinals (with the exception of the defeat in the second round in Toronto); Until then, only Monica Seles had achieved this.

2005

• In her success at Indian Wells, she was the lowest-placed player in history (134th place) to ever win a Tier I tournament.

Kim Clijsters, 2006

• As the first player after Steffi Graf, she succeeded in winning the two consecutive Tier I tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami.
• She won the tournament series on the hard courts before Flushing Meadows (US Open Series) and then the US Open, which doubled her prize money. She received US $ 2.2 million, which was also the highest prize money in the history of women's sports.
• She won nine titles that year, making her first in the annual ranking and second in the world rankings. Up until then, only Steffi Graf (1989: 14), Martina Hingis (1997: 12) and Monica Seles (1991, 1992: 10) had won more tournaments in a year .

2006

• With her victory over Martina Hingis in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open, Kim Clijsters returned to the top of the world rankings. She was the first tennis player to jump from 134th to the top within a year.

2010

• In a show match in Brussels, where she defeated Serena Williams 6: 3 and 6: 2, she played in front of 35,681 fans in the King Baudouin Stadium, which set a new record in tennis.

Awards

Clijsters has been awarded several prizes, including Player of the Month in November 2002 and May, August and October / November 2003. She received the “Sportmanship Award” three times (2000, 2003, 2005) and is five times Sportswoman of the Year in Belgium and was approved by the International Tennis Federation for ITF World Champion 2005 appointed. On March 21, 2006, she received the title of "WTA Player of the Year 2005" and the "Comeback Player of the Year 2005" in Miami. In addition, she received four nominations for the Laureus World Sports Award , which is also regarded as a "sporting Oscar": 2006 in the categories "World Sportswoman of the Year" and "Comeback of the Year", 2002 in the category "Newcomer of the Year" and again in 2009 for the "comeback of the year". In 2017 she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	September 26, 1999	Luxembourg	WTA Tier III	Carpet (hall)	Dominique van Roost	6: 2, 6: 2
2.	January 15, 2000	Hobart	WTA Tier IVb	Hard court	Chanda Ruby	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 2
3.	November 5, 2000	Leipzig	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Jelena Lichowzewa	7: 6 6 , 4: 6, 6: 4
4th	July 29, 2001	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	6: 4, 6: 7 5 , 6: 1
5.	September 30, 2001	Leipzig	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Magdalena Maleewa	6: 1, 6: 1
6th	October 28, 2001	Luxembourg	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Lisa Raymond	6: 2, 6: 2
7th	May 5, 2002	Hamburg	WTA Tier II	sand	Venus Williams	1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
8th.	October 13, 2002	Filderstadt	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Daniela Hantuchová	4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
9.	October 27, 2002	Luxembourg	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Magdalena Maleewa	6: 1, 6: 2
10.	November 11, 2002	los Angeles	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Serena Williams	7: 5, 6: 3
11.	January 11, 2003	Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	6: 4, 6: 3
12.	March 16, 2003	Indian Wells	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	6: 4, 7: 5
13.	May 18, 2003	Rome	WTA Tier I	sand	Amélie Mauresmo	3: 6, 7: 6 3 , 6: 0
14th	June 21, 2003	's-Hertogenbosch	WTA Tier III	race	Justine Henin-Hardenne	6: 7 4 , 3: 0 task
15th	July 27, 2003	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Jennifer Capriati	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
16.	August 10, 2003	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 1
17th	October 13, 2003	Filderstadt	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Justine Henin-Hardenne	5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 2
18th	October 26, 2003	Luxembourg	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Chanda Ruby	6: 2, 7: 5
19th	November 10, 2003	los Angeles	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court (hall)	Amélie Mauresmo	6: 2, 6: 0
20th	February 15, 2004	Paris	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Mary Pierce	6: 2, 6: 1
21st	February 22, 2004	Antwerp	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Silvia Farina Elia	6: 3, 6: 0
22nd	March 20, 2005	Indian Wells	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Lindsay Davenport	6: 4, 4: 6, 6: 2
23.	April 3, 2005	Miami	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Maria Sharapova	6: 3, 7: 5
24.	June 18, 2005	Eastbourne	WTA Tier II	race	Wera Duschewina	7: 5, 6: 0
25th	July 31, 2005	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Venus Williams	7: 5, 6: 2
26th	August 14, 2005	los Angeles	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Daniela Hantuchová	6: 4, 6: 1
27.	August 21, 2005	Toronto	WTA Tier I	Hard court	Justine Henin-Hardenne	7: 5, 6: 1
28.	September 11, 2005	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Mary Pierce	6: 3, 6: 1
29	October 2, 2005	Luxembourg	WTA Tier II	Hard court (hall)	Anna-Lena Grönefeld	6: 2, 6: 4
30th	October 30, 2005	Hasselt	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Francesca Schiavone	6: 2, 6: 3
31.	May 7, 2006	Warsaw	WTA Tier II	sand	Svetlana Kuznetsova	7: 5, 6: 2
32.	July 30, 2006	Stanford	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Patty Schnyder	6: 4, 6: 2
33.	November 5, 2006	Hasselt	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Kaia Kanepi	6: 3, 3: 6, 6: 4
34.	January 12, 2007	Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Jelena Janković	4: 6, 7: 6 1 , 6: 4
35.	September 13, 2009	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	7: 5, 6: 3
36.	January 9, 2010	Brisbane	WTA International	Hard court	Justine Henin	6: 3, 4: 6, 7: 6 6
37.	April 3, 2010	Miami	WTA Premier Mandatory	Hard court	Venus Williams	6: 2, 6: 1
38.	August 15, 2010	Cincinnati	WTA Premier 5	Hard court	Maria Sharapova	2: 6, 7: 6 4 , 6: 2
39.	September 13, 2010	US Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Vera Swonaryova	6: 2, 6: 1
40.	October 31, 2010	Doha	WTA Tour Championships	Hard court	Caroline Wozniacki	6: 3, 5: 7, 6: 3
41.	January 29, 2011	Australian Open	Grand Slam	Hard court	Li Na	3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 24, 1999	Bratislava	WTA Tier IVb	Hard court (hall)	Laurence Courtois	Wolha Barabanschtschykawa Lilia Osterloh	6: 2, 3: 6, 7: 5
2.	May 21, 2000	Antwerp	WTA Tier IVa	sand	Sabine Appelmans	Jennifer Hopkins Petra Rampre	6: 1, 6: 1
3.	August 11, 2002	Manhattan Beach	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Jelena Dokic	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6: 3, 6: 3
4th	October 27, 2002	Luxembourg	WTA Tier III	Hard court (hall)	Janette Husárová	Květa Hrdličková Barbara Rittner	4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5
5.	January 11, 2003	Sydney	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	Conchita Martínez Rennae Stubbs	6: 3, 6: 3
6th	February 16, 2003	Antwerp	WTA Tier II	Carpet (hall)	Ai Sugiyama	Nathalie Dechy Émilie Loit	6: 2, 6: 0
7th	March 2, 2003	Scottsdale	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	6: 1, 6: 4
8th.	June 8, 2003	French Open	Grand Slam	sand	Ai Sugiyama	Virginia Ruano Paola Suarez	6: 7 5 , 6: 2, 9: 7
9.	July 6, 2003	Wimbledon	Grand Slam	race	Ai Sugiyama	Virginia Ruano Paola Suarez	6: 4, 6: 4
10.	August 3, 2003	San Diego	WTA Tier II	Hard court	Ai Sugiyama	Lindsay Davenport Lisa Raymond	6: 4, 7: 5
11.	October 19, 2003	Zurich	WTA Tier I	Hard court (hall)	Ai Sugiyama	Virginia Ruano Paola Suarez	7: 6 3 , 6: 2

Career statistics and tournament record

singles

competition	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	total
Australian Open	-	-	-	1	AF	HF	HF	F.	-	HF	HF	-	-	3	S.	HF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
French Open	-	-	-	1	F.	3	F.	-	AF	HF	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0
Wimbledon	-	-	AF	2	VF	2	HF	-	AF	HF	-	-	-	VF	-	AF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0
US Open	-	-	3	2	VF	AF	F.	-	S.	-	-	-	S.	S.	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		3
Tour Championships	-	-	-	VF	HF	S.	S.	-	RR	HF	-	-	-	S.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		3
Doha	na or a. K.											-	na or a. K.			-	-	-	a. K.	-	a. K.	-	a. K.		0
Dubai	na or a. K.												-	-	-	na or a. K.			-	a. K.	-	a. K.	-	a. K.	0
Indian Wells	-	-	-	AF	F.	2	S.	3	S.	-	-	-	-	3	AF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Miami	-	-	-	AF	AF	VF	HF	-	S.	2	AF	-	-	S.	VF	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Hilton Head Island	-	-	-	-	not carried out																				0
Charleston	not carried out				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	other category												0
Rome	-	-	-	-	2	HF	S.	-	-	AF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Madrid	na or a. K.												-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0
Berlin	-	-	-	-	1	2	F.	AF	AF	-	-	-	na or a. K.												0
San Diego	na or a. K.							-	VF	F.	-	na or a. K.													0
Cincinnati	na or a. K.												VF	S.	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Montreal / Toronto	-	-	-	-	-	AF	AF	-	S.	2	-	-	AF	VF	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Tokyo	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	other category							0
Munich	n / A	-	-	not carried out																					0
Zurich	-	-	-	-	-	VF	HF	-	-	-	-	not carried out													0
Beijing	na or a. K.												-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		0
Moscow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	other category												0
Olympic games	not carried out			-	not carried out			-	not carried out			-	not carried out			VF	not carried out			-	not carried out				0
Fed Cup	-	-	-	HF	S.	VF	HF	VF	PO	F.	-	-	-	PO	HF	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Tournament participation	1	4th	11	17th	22nd	21st	21st	6th	17th	14th	5	0	4th	11	8th	7th	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	169
Finals reached	0	2	4th	3	6th	6th	15th	3	9	5	2	0	1	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	64
Title won	0	2	2	2	3	4th	9	2	9	3	1	0	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	44
Hard court wins / defeats	0-0	4: 1	11: 2	16: 8	30:10	35:10	59: 7	9: 2	49: 4	23: 6	11: 2	0-0	13: 3	32: 4	21: 5	11: 4	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	324: 68
Sand victories / defeats	2: 1	11: 1	15: 5	1: 2	12: 5	10: 3	17: 2	3-0	8: 3	6: 2	0: 1	0-0	0-0	2: 1	1: 1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	88:27
Turf wins / defeats	0-0	0-0	6: 1	2: 2	7: 2	2: 2	9: 1	0-0	8: 1	11: 3	0-0	0-0	0-0	6: 2	1: 1	9: 2	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	61:17
Carpet victories / defeats	0-0	0-0	8: 2	10: 4	6: 1	4: 2	5: 2	8-0	2: 1	3: 1	3: 1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	49:14
Overall wins / losses	2: 1	15: 2	40:10	29:16	55:18	51:17	90:12	20: 2	67: 9	43:12	14: 4	0-0	13: 3	40: 7	23: 7	20: 6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	522: 126
World ranking points	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		N / A
Year-end position	-	-	44	18th	5	3	1	2	2	1	4th	-	17th	3	1	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		N / A

Explanation of symbols: S = tournament victory; F, HF, VF, AF = entry into the final / semi-finals / quarter-finals / round of 16; 1, 2, 3 = elimination in the 1st / 2nd / 3rd main round; RR = Round Robin (group stage); na = not carried out; a. K. = other category; PO (playoff) = promotion and relegation round in the Fed Cup; K1, K2, K3 = participation in continental groups I, II, III in the Fed Cup.

Note : These statistics take into account all results individually, as it is on the WTA and ITF pages. Only WTA tournaments of the category Tier I (until 2008) and the WTA tournaments of the categories Premier Mandatory and Premier 5 (since 2009) are shown.

Personal

Kim's father Leo Clijsters (1956–2009) was a Belgian national soccer player . Her mother, Els Vandecaetsbeek, was a Belgian champion in rhythmic gymnastics.

In 2003, Clijsters got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt ; however, they separated in October 2004 shortly before the planned wedding. In April 2006, she became engaged to basketball player Brian Lynch , who played for her hometown Bree team. The two married on July 13, 2007. Their daughter was born on February 27, 2008. A few weeks later, Kim's 43-year-old mother gave birth to a son, so Kim's daughter has a younger uncle. Her godmother is Elke Clijsters , Kim's sister, who was also a tennis player and became world champion in doubles as a junior in 2002, but had to give up her career due to back problems. In September 2013 and October 2016, Kim Clijsters was the mother of a boy.

Web links

Commons : Kim Clijsters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kim Clijsters website (Dutch, French, English)
• WTA Profile of Kim Clijsters (English)
• ITF Profile of Kim Clijsters (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Kim Clijsters (English)
• Kim Clijsters in the "International Tennis Hall of Fame" (English; with picture)
• Kim Clijsters in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kim Clijsters zet punt eighth hair carrière , sporza.be, May 6, 2007 ( Memento of May 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Clijsters begins aan tweede tenniscarrière , sporza.be, March 26, 2009 ( Memento of March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Kim Clijsters wint eerste keer Australian Open , sporza.be, January 29, 2011 ( Memento of February 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Clijsters prijkt opnieuw op 1 op WTA-ranking , sporza.be, February 14, 2011 ( Memento of February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Olympia-Aus for Kim Clijsters grenzecho.net, August 2, 2012 (accessed on August 31, 2012)
6. ↑ Kim Clijsters suppresses the world of tears while parting , August 30, 2012 (accessed on August 31, 2012)
7. ↑ Kim Clijsters says goodbye to the world rankings as No. 20 in the world
8. ↑ Courtney Nguyen: Exclusive: Kim Clijsters announces 2020 comeback - 'I love the challenge'. September 12, 2019, accessed on September 12, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Clijsters loses their comeback match. In: spiegel.de. February 17, 2020, accessed February 17, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Information on Kim Clijsters at laureus.com , accessed on September 14, 2009
11. ↑ Kim Clijsters inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame (wtatennis.com July 22, 2017, accessed July 25, 2017)
12. ↑ Clijsters became a mother for the second time , tennisnet.com.
13. ↑ The offspring are here - Kim Clijsters is a mother for the third time , tennisnet.com. Retrieved November 1, 2016.