Kim Clijsters' brilliant comeback continued at the Cincinnati Open with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 win over French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova on Thursday, but the Williams sisters both fell at the third round hurdle. Second seed Serena, struggling with a virus, lost 7-5, 6-4 to Austria's Sybille Bammer while in-form Italian Flavia Pennetta ended the hopes of third seed Venus with a 7-6, 6-4 victory.
Kim Clijsters's comeback gathered pace on Wednesday when the former world number one beat Swiss Patty Schnyder 6-2, 7-5 to reach the third round of the Cincinnati Open. Second seed Serena Williams, who holds three of the four Grand Slam titles, also advanced to the third round after overpowering Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-3, 6-2.
World number two Kim Clijsters will have surgery to remove a cyst on her left wrist and could miss the U.S. Open.
'There are some challenges and combining parenting at home and teaching the kids at home and still going to practice and things like that, so it was challenging but at the same time you get through that together.'
Maria Sharapova will meet Kim Clijsters in the final of the Cincinnati Open on Sunday after the pair came through contrasting semi-final ties.
The world number two is unsure whether she will be fit enough to play at next month's event.\n\n
Images from Day 5 at the French Open in Paris, on Thursday.
The top seed overpowered Maria Sanchez Lorenzo 6-1, 6-0 in the Paris Open.
Former world number one Kim Clijsters will come out of retirement to play on the tour during the US hardcourt season later this year, the Belgian said on Thursday. According to her plans, Clijsters will make her comeback in the Cincinnati Open which begins on August 10 and continue her build-up for Flushing Meadows the following week in the Toronto Cup.
The duo require success at the U.S. Open not only to sate their own ambitions but to gain the upper hand in their personal rivalry.
The world number two tennis player said the sport does not deserve to be at the Games.
Kim Clijsters suffered an injury scare ahead of her Australian Open defence when she was forced to retire from her Brisbane International semi-final against Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova on Friday.
Returning to the scene of her greatest triumphs, Kim Clijsters looked like any ordinary working mom when she strolled into Flushing Meadows on Saturday.
Kim Clijsters won the battle of the Belgians on Monday when she beat Justine Henin 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 for a place in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
Images from the US Open matches played at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday.
Unseeded Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands produced the biggest upset of the 2011 French Open when she knocked out second seed Kim Clijsters in the women's singles second round.
Kim Clijsters' lookalike sports the same tennis kit, golden hair and blue racquet as the US Open champion but her backhand is somewhat stiffer. That's because she is a doll -- the first Barbie to commemorate a female athlete, unveiled at the world's largest toy fair in the German city of Nuremberg on Wednesday.
Jelena Dokic let out a huge yelp of delight after outgunning fifth seed Nadia Petrova 6-4, 7-6 at the Paris Open on Thursday to book a meeting with Kim Clijsters in the last eight.
Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters steamrolled their semi-final opponents on Friday to set up a tantalising all-Belgian final at the Brisbane International. Henin, playing her first tournament in 20 months after coming out of retirement, crushed Serbia's Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2 in a little over then hour. Then Clijsters, who won last year's US Open after making her own fairytale comeback, demolished Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-4, 6-2.
Notorious slow starter Li Na seems to produce her best tennis teetering on the brink of defeat but the Chinese hopes to hit the ground running against Kim Clijsters in Saturday's Australian Open final.
Belgium's US Open champion Kim Clijsters showed no mercy against her childhood friend Alicia Molik at the Brisbane International on Tuesday, whipping the Australian 6-0, 6-3 to cruise into the third round.
Belgian Kim Clijsters stole the limelight from new world number one Caroline Wozniacki with a battling three-set victory in the season-ending WTA Championships on Sunday.
The Belgian defeated Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament on Wednesday.
The former world number one has said her football-playing father Leo helped her back from a career-threatening injury.
Newly-crowned world number one Kim Clijsters feels she is ready to win her first grand slam title at the U.S. Open.
The US Open champion has pulled out of the Rogers Cup event in Montreal.
Top seed Kim Clijsters held off a late fighback to beat Czech teen Nicole Vaidisova 6-2, 7-6 in the semi-finals of the Acura Classic.
Second seed Maria Sharapova crushed defending champion Mary Pierce 6-2 6-3, setting up a last four clash with Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, who beat number four Elena Dementieva 6-4 6-3.
The tournament will take place in a quarantined setting from Aug. 31-Sept. 13 in New York. The Western & Southern Open, which was relocated from Cincinnati this year, will be held from Aug. 20-28 as a warm-up event for the Grand Slam.
Kim Clijsters recovered to beat Japanese qualifier Akiko Morigami 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 at the Italian Open
Belgian Kim Clijsters failed to build on last week's triumph at the Sony Ericsson Open when she was dumped out of the Andalucia Open by qualifier Beatriz Garcia Vidagany in the second round on Thursday.
