Since the favourite WTA players thread was getting a bit old and largely just general comments about WTA stuff, I thought I might as well start a new thread for anything related to the women's game. :)

Good luck, Kim! I hope she can get back to normality soon.

Ouch! The poor girl - having to go through so much pain. :( I hope that she is not coming back to early. So many players come back too soon and actually cause more damage than they had in the first place.

Hopefully she can have a decent tournament and start getting back into the groove. I've heard she's the most friendly player on the WTA tour. :)

GO CLIJSTERS!!!!.....I hope she will be doing a great job.........I always love to see her play....soooo good luck..

Oh I really really really really hope she's right about that.... cause like Booshie said, she could be doing more damage to it than good... :( OH I hope she gets well soon!!! (Wonder how the wedding plans are going?!?)

Yeah me too :). Get well soon!!!

I hope that she does well too. There is some good news...

HASSELT, Belgium -- Former top-ranked player Kim Clijsters made a winning return to the tour Wednesday, shaking off five months of rustiness to beat Iveta Benesova 7-6 (3), 6-2 and moving into the quarterfinals of the Gaz de France Stars tournament.

Ok Kim, you can do it!!! Get another title right away!

yeah, i saw that match yesterday. in the first set, Kim made a lot of unforced errors, but in the second she played good. not excellent, but you can't blame her for that: she's been out for 164 days, according to our commentator.. but i have to say she surprised me, she had a lot of power and her service was great, 19 aces or so..

in the quarterfinal she'll play against Els Callens or Maleeva..

Wow! That's great! This has been a good start for her I'd say, especially if she can win the title.

Kim's in the semis! she won 6-3, 6-4 over Maleeva! it looks like shes making a very good comeback..

yes she is!
very remarkable

(i just wish i could say the same about... youknowwho :( )

Wow, she's springing back really well!!!

Shhhhhhhh.... Carole, don't let it bring you down :(

definitely hope she will win the tournement.....

greetings!!!!

Does anyone know how she's doing now? whether she got out or is in the final? I can't find anything out!

she's playing the semi-final against Elena Bovina tonight, at 19.30 local time, that's about one hour. you can follow the match on her official site: www.kimclijsters.be

Thanks Christian! Definently be watching that!

Noo... Kim had to retire, her wrist again. so sad :(

That is so sad! I really wanted her to win it all:( This is always the way it goes isn't it? Our favorite player get far and then they have to pull out!

Oh wow! I just made my 100th post, and now I'm a ball kid!!

Yes...this is really unfortunate. :( The poor girl! I hope that her wrist will get better. What a sad story it would be if this keeps her out for another year or something. :( At least she made it to the semis..that was a nice effort. But it's all for naught if her wrist is hurt just as badly as before. We don't know to what extent is it injured again though. We'll see I guess....


Congratulations tennisrocks on your 100th post! :) :flower:

this article was on her official site:

De polsblessure van Kim is nog geen verleden tijd. De Limburgse kreeg opnieuw last bij een return op de service van Bovina en moest wat later opgeven.

"Het is nog niet duidelijk wat er juist aan de hand is," aldus Marc Dehous, de trainer van Kim. "Mogelijk heeft haar pees het opnieuw begeven. We gaan straks nog naar het ziekenhuis voor verder onderzoek."

"Tijdens de twee andere wedstrijden ondervond Kim nochtans geen hinder meer van haar polsblessure, maar vandaag kreeg ze een pijnscheut toen ze een opslag van Bovina retourneerde. Het ziet er niet naar uit dat ze dit jaar nog in actie zal komen."

.. i'll try to translate it :P

The wrist-injury of Kim is not passed yet. The Limburgse got trouble again by a return at the service of Bovina and had to retire.

"It's not clear yet what's wrong," says Marc Dehous, the trainer of Kim. "Possibly it's wrong with her tendon again. We're going to the hospital for further investigation in a few moments."

"During the two other matches Kim had no trouble of her wrist-injury, but today she got a stab of pain when she returned a service of Bovina. It looks like she won't play anymore this year."

sorry for the faults, but i had to do it very fast :P

good it was also in dutch ;)
but it's a real pity :(
kim is one of my favourits!!! she really don't deserve sthing like this!!!
hope next season will get better! [also with jc!!]

It's pretty much saying the same thing, but I still thought I should post it anyway. Damn, she's missed out on practically the whole year...

Argggh, i hope thats not true

that's terrible, if it really can be the end of her career :( . so sad, hope this doctor isn't right.. :omg:

Oh man! that is terrible! I hope that doctor is wrong...VERY wrong. But who knows how long she was intending to stay since she and Lleyton are getting hitched ("married" in hickish). Hey now she can have kids!!Wouldn't that be sweet :wub:

this doctor was wrong :D .. she's a few months out again, according to this article:


Kim Clijsters' injury appears to be not too serious. Ice, rest, inflammatory drugs and a brace (again) should have her ready for 2005.

During the sixth game of the semi final against Bovina, Kim felt a sudden pain in her left wrist on a difficult backhand. The pain only got worse, even after treatment. Retiring from the match had become inevitable.

New medical examination and Medical Image Analysis (echo review and NMR analysis) revealed a new injury in the left wrist, close to the old injury (which repeatedly showed completely recovered on previous examinations and NMR).

This time, the problem is most likely the tendon of an important wrist extensor (extensor carpi ulnaris). Luckily, the tendon isn't severely damaged. Possibly some filaments have come off, or the tendon sheath. Further examining over the next few days will give final proof.

Ice, rest, inflammatory drugs and a brace (again) are probably the most important now. Further treatment will be discussed together with Kim's entourage and the wrist surgeons doctors Kinen and Verstreken. A new surgery is not being planned for the time being.

After being out for so many months, Kim was more than ever ready to return to her previous top level. This she proved during training as well as during the first two matches. The new injury is quite a blow, but will be and shall be resolved. After being out for a couple of months, Clijsters will be a full 100% ready for 2005!

=/ First Kim, now Justine. Well, I guess it opens things up to some of the other players, what with the Williams sisters no longer being dominant/prominant and all.

woot belgium :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:

okay we still got rochus i guess :mellow: and malisse

this has been a sucky year not only for jc but also for the beglian girls :(

hey well i haven't really been following this thread but yesterday while i was at lady footlocker i noticed that they had posters of Justine (2 of them actually) and on of Kim.....and some other american female athletes. Thought it was pretty cool hehe ^_^

:D Re-match of the French Open final at the Kremlin Cup. Gooooooo Myskina!

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:huh: What's all this about?

oh well, Sharapova seems to enjoy Equelite :D and probably the company of JC, he was at Equelite this week as well.. they seem to be good friends, i remember a few pics of them together. ^_^

haha maria's pretty lucky to be spending so much time there= not only great tennis facilities and a "home in europe" but so much juanqui time! hahaha and learning spanish!!!!! argh, that's so cool i wanna learn spanish so bad....i was actually gonna take french all through out highschool, but i don't know maybe i'll stop after this year, which is my third and take spanish 1 and 2 in my junior and senior year....hrmmmm dunno, but i really hope i can speak either french or spanish fluently one day, if not both hehe

sorry for going off on yet another tangent haha

Ohh Ohh!! I want to be Sharapova right now! Just think...she might get to talk to JC on a regular basis...she is so lucky!

<_< As if I needed another reason to be jealous of Maria.

She is totally gorgeous, and people love her, and now she gets to spend time in Spain! Arg.

My. Life. Is. Not. Fair.

I wonder what she sounds like speaking Spanish...

I'm pretty good at it because I live very close to Mexico, so it's like required. But Spanish that is more Spain based sounds different than Spanish that is more Mexico based. It'd be interesting...

Go Myskina!

:hyper: MYSKINA!!!

She bageled Elena in the second set!!!

Actually...I like both players...better luck next time Elena. :(

wow myskina is on a roll!!

yea i like both players too.....but i hope dementieva wins a final soon...she's been in quite a few....I really wanted her to win the USO this year...too bad, it didn't happen

I've just heard Michaela Krajicek.......little sister of wimbledon winner richard Krajicek....is taking part in her first senior tounament....in Luxemburg.....
maybe some of you don't care....but she's from the netherlands.....and at the moment we don't have dutch women taking part...in seniors.....not that I know of....

anyway I hope she can win her first round......but I guess that will be very tough....she's playing against...asagoe.....so.....if she will lose....it's not to surprising!!!

we''ll see....I'm just so proud she made it through the qualification....she had seven matchmoints against her.....still managed to win the match.....

HUP KRAJICEK!!!!!!!!!

I, personally, don't care about Michaela. So what if the all dutchies don't have a reprensentatrice in the WTA. I'd rather we have none than one who's such a bad sport.
I'm sorry, but she needs to grow up some more if she wants to be great in this sport (or anything else for that mather). In addition to her tennis training, she could have some training in players ethics and manners as well.
I remember her at RG where she lost in the semis. She wouldn't look at her opponents face when they had to shake hands. She just touched the hand for 1 sec and then walked away angrily in a mad dash. Didn't even bother to shake hands with the umpire. "He who is great, is great in accepting his defeat graciously."
Not to mention her annoying cries and fistpumps, but that seems to become a common thing nowadays for players.

I normally am not likely to jugde players on their behaviour, but Michaela can not be excused. Especialy since she's been put on a pedestal by the Dutch.
Sure she's talented, but then I can't sum up another 10 (well, 5 then)girls of her age in the circuit who are as equally talented but have better temperament.

well.....you're definitely right...about her manners towards her opponent.....I remember when she lost.....and didn't congratulate her opponent in a normal way....that was really sad...really pathetic.........soooo....I agree with you on that one....
I hope she wil changhe that way of thinking.....that's obviously not nice....

But I do like the fact there is a dutch player....in the WTA tournament........not that I watch the WTA all the time....not at all......ATP is far more interesting.....at least for me.........but I just hope that soon we will have more dutch players in the WTA.....well in a couple of years maybe....and also more guys....that would be great for holland......I guess.....

anywayzz...... the other players are far more experienced than her....sooo...I guess she won't have too much chance....at least not now..........

we'll see.....what she will do....and how she will react.....

greetings........

u have GOT to be kidding me!!!!!


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