The world number four has pulled out of next week's tournament in Paris due to a hip injury but still expects to participate in the Diamond Games event on home turf.
Images from cation on day nine of the US Open being played at the Flushing Meadows.
US Open champion Kim Clijsters will be counting on quality rather than quantity as she tries to work her way back into the top 10 of the world rankings following her two-year maternity break.
Kim Clijsters may have eased through the draw so far, but her experience on important points, knowing when they were and how to win them also helped her against Daniela Hantuchova.
Five-times champion and second seed Venus Williams was stunned 6-2, 6-3 by Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon on Tuesday.
One magical point from Roger Federer capped an exhilarating first day at the US Open on Monday as a host of former champions each took their turn in the Flushing Meadows spotlight.
Kim Clijsters survived two match points before winning her eagerly awaited rematch with fellow Belgian Justine Henin 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 in the final of the Brisbane International on Saturday.
Despite needing just a month to hurtle from nowhere to 19th in the world rankings, new US Open champion Kim Clijsters has no intention of racking up the air miles to pursue a rise to the top of the standings.
There are only a certain number of ways to avoid addressing your chances of winning the Australian Open but Kim Clijsters found yet another on Sunday at Melbourne Park.
World number two Kim Clijsters withdrew from her opening match at the Toronto Cup on Tuesday with a partial tear of her left stomach muscle, casting doubt on whether she will be fit for this month's US Open.
Images from the Australian Open matches played on Thursday.
Belgian Kim Clijsters sealed a glittering comeback with the Women's Tennis Association award for player of the year and swiftly paid tribute to her fellow competitors, the WTA announced on Wednesday.
It is time for the men's and women's professional tennis bodies to merge says former world number one Kim Clijsters.
Disappointed but content, Kim Clijsters signed off her singles career with a second-round defeat at the US Open on Wednesday, beaten but unbowed and with the praise of her peers ringing in her ears.
Images from day nine of the Australian Open 2012 Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, on Tuesday.
The former world number one said she would play in the French Open despite a knee injury.
The Belgian capped a remarkable comeback to the top level of the game following wrist surgery, beating the world No.1 in the final of the Pacific Life Open.
The world number two was forced to hobble away from her Hopman Cup match against Alicia Molik.
Former World No 1 Kim Clijsters has confirmed that she will bring down the curtain on her second career at the end of this year's US Open, Belgian news agency Belga has reported.
Naomi Osaka won the US Open in 2020 and the Australian Open the following year under Belgian coach Wim Fissette's guidance.
Gaston Gaudio, the 2004 champion, won his battle with 2003 champion Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain at the French Open.
China's Li Na advanced to her second successive Australian Open final with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard on Thursday.
Images from Day 5 of the Australian Open.
Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams fell at the first hurdle
China's Li Na sent a wayward Maria Sharapova crashing out of the Australian Open semi-finals on Thursday and says there will be no repeat of her capitulation to Kim Clijsters in the 2011 Melbourne Park final.
Images from day three of the Australian Open 2012 tennis tournament in Melbourne, on Wednesday.
Australian Open organisers have decided to leave Belgian duo Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin as potential banana skins in the tournament draw, refusing to tinker with world rankings in naming their seeds on Thursday.
Frances Tiafoe will be unable to compete for the Washington Kastles in the 2020 World TeamTennis season after testing positive for COVID-19 during the advance travel testing window, tournament chief Carlos Silva said on Monday. Tiafoe, 22, returned a positive test on Friday and was forced to withdraw from the All-American Team Cup exhibition tournament in Atlanta.
Serena Williams said she would have faced far harsher punishment had she engaged in similar behavior to Zverev
One French Open pundit this week described world number one Caroline Wozniacki as playing 'moonballing nonsense' and after the Dane and second seed Kim Clijsters crashed out, the women's game generally is under fire.
Caroline Wozniacki was dumped out of the quarter-finals of the Australian Open by Kim Clijsters on Tuesday and will lose her world number one position when new rankings are released next week.
Images from Day 1 of the Australian Open.
The Frenchwoman went down to rising Serb Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 7-5 at the Sydney International.
As Kim Clijsters's love affair with tennis comes to an end, fellow Belgian Justine Henin's has started to bloom again.
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