Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth8 June 1983
CityBilzen, Belgium
CountryBelgium
hard
I want to give it a go and I want to try as hard as I can to get better,
definitely hard hit
Even when she's on the run, she can hit it so hard and flat. That's definitely one of her strengths.
asked bigger course deal frustrated hard media press time
Sometimes of course I got a little frustrated every time I got asked in press conferences about (it), and I had the idea that the media was making more of it, like a bigger deal than it was. I was very motivated, and I was working hard to try to do it.
felt harder match quite score
It was a harder match than the score indicated. I felt quite good. I did what I had to do.
ball girl harder hits
probably hits the ball harder than any girl out there.
compare finals grand hard previous slam surgery
It's very hard to compare because the previous grand slam finals were before my surgery and I really feel different now.
kept mary points tried
Mary kept the points a lot shorter. She tried to go for too much at the Open.
missed realized
That was before my injury. I've realized a lot more how much I missed tennis,
sore walk wrists
The way I walk around, everything is hurting, ... My ankles, my wrists ? everything is sore and making a lot of noise.
injured last playing
Even when I was injured last year, when I started playing again, you get motivated,
hitting stand sure
I'll have to make sure that I stand on the baseline and make sure that I keep hitting aggressively,
beginning change feeling felt lose second sudden tennis
It can change so quickly. That was the frustrating part. I felt like I was controlling the rallies in the first and the beginning of the second set, and all of a sudden you just lose all the feeling of your strokes. That's tennis sometimes.
season
I never thought I could have a season like this.
jumping people prefer relaxed
I prefer people who are relaxed in my box. I don't want people who are jumping up.