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Justine Henin (IPA: [ʒysˈtin eˈnɛ̃]; listenⓘ) (born June 1, 1982 in Liège) is a Belgian professional tennis player and the current World No. 1.

Justine Henin
Justine Henin
Country (sports) Belgium
ResidenceMonte Carlo, Monaco
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) (5'5 3/4")
Turned proJanuary 1, 1999
PlaysRight; One-handed backhand
Prize money$14,433,519
Singles
Career record436-102
Career titles32
Highest rankingNo. 1 (October 20, 2003)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenW (2004)
French OpenW (2003, 2005, 2006)
WimbledonF (2001, 2006)
US OpenW (2003)
Doubles
Career record47-35
Career titles2
Highest rankingNo. 23 (January 14, 2002)
Last updated on: May 18, 2007.
Olympic medal record
Women's Tennis
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Singles

Henin is from the Walloon (French-speaking) region of Belgium. Her mental toughness and her one-handed backhand, a stroke which John McEnroe has called among the best backhands of any male or female player, are reasons she is one of the world's best players.[1][2] As of May 2007, she has won five Grand Slam singles titles, including three French Open singles titles, one WTA Tour Championships title, as well as a gold medal in singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Family life

Henin's trainer, Carlos Rodriguez, has been her main father figure since her mother died of intestinal cancer when Henin was 12 years old. For many years, she was in conflict with her biological father, José Henin. Only shortly after her divorce in early 2007, Henin herself announced that she had made contact again with her close family. She has two older brothers and one younger sister. Her elder sister died in a car accident before Justine was born.

Henin married Pierre-Yves Hardenne on November 16, 2002, in the Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne.[3][4] She used the name Justine Henin-Hardenne on the tennis court from January 2003 through December 2006. However, on January 4, 2007, just after withdrawing from upcoming tournaments in Australia, including the Australian Open, various news agencies reported that she intended to divorce her husband and assume her maiden name, "Justine Henin." [5] She has since confirmed on her official website that she has separated from her husband.[6] [7]

Her mother, Françoise Rosière, was a French and history teacher who routinely took the young Henin across the border to France to watch the French Open.[8] Henin saw the 1992 final involving her idol Steffi Graf and Monica Seles. Although Graf lost, the experience impressed Henin, who apparently told her mother, "One day I will play here and I will win."

Tennis career

Early career

Henin, known as "Juju" to many of her fans, has been coached by Carlos Rodriguez of Argentina since she was 14 years old. In 1997, she won the junior girl's singles title at the French Open. Early in her senior career, she regularly reached the late rounds of international competitions and won five International Tennis Federation tournaments by the end of 1998.

She started her professional career on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tour in May 1999 as a wild card entry in the Belgian Open at Antwerp and became the fifth player to win her debut WTA Tour event.

Henin established herself as a major competitor in 2001 when she reached the women's singles semifinals of the French Open and the women's singles final of Wimbledon, losing to Venus Williams. By the end of the year, Henin was ranked seventh in singles, with three titles to her name. Also at the French Open that year, she and Elena Tatarkova reached the women's doubles semifinals.

In 2002, she reached four WTA finals, winning two of them. Henin finished the year ranked fifth. Her German Open victory, her first win at a Tier I tournament, was noteworthy as she beat Jennifer Capriati in a semifinal and Serena Williams in the final, the then number two and number five ranked players, respectively.

Grand Slam breakthrough in 2003

In 2003, Henin won her first Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, defeating her compatriot Kim Clijsters in the final 6-0, 6-4. She reached the final after defeating top ranked Serena Williams in three sets, recovering from a 2-4 deficit in the third set.

Later that year, Henin won her second Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, again defeating Clijsters in the final 7-5, 6-1. Henin reached the final by defeating Jennifer Capriati 7-6 in the final set of their semifinal match. During the match, Henin was two points from defeat eleven times. The match ended well after midnight and Henin, after receiving treatment for dehydration and cramping, returned the next day to defeat Clijsters.

On October 19, 2003, Henin replaced Clijsters as the top ranked female singles player. She was named the International Tennis Federation's women's singles World Champion for 2003.

2004-2005

 
Justine Henin at the Medibank International
 
Justine Henin on a practice court during the Sony Ericsson Open.

Henin started 2004 by winning a warm-up tournament in Sydney. She then won the Australian Open in Melbourne, defeating Kim Clijsters 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

As of March 22, 2004, Henin had accumulated the highest point total (7626) in the history of the WTA rankings. Because the awarding of quality points was eliminated in 2006, this point total may never be exceeded.

By the end of the 2004 spring hard court season, Henin had built a 25-match Tier I winning streak and a 22-1 win-loss record (winning her first 16 matches).

At the start of the 2004 clay court season, Henin's health was adversely affected by infection with a strain of cytomegalovirus and an immune system problem. She often slept up to 18 hours a day and barely had the strength to brush her teeth, let alone play competitive tennis.

Although she decided to defend her French Open title and was seeded first in the tournament, she lost her second round match against a much lower-ranked player, Tathiana Garbin of Italy. At the time, the loss marked only the second time in 15 Grand Slam events that Henin exited before the fourth round.

Henin returned to competition in August and won the women's singles gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, defeating Amélie Mauresmo of France in the final 6-3, 6-3. Henin reached the gold medal match by defeating Anastasia Myskina in a semifinal after having trailed 1-5 in the final set, which she won 8-6. Her medal ceremony was attended by fellow countryman and IOC president Jacques Rogge.

In September 2004, she unsuccessfully defended her U.S. Open title, losing to Nadia Petrova in the fourth round. This defeat caused her to lose the number one ranking, which she had held for 45 non-consecutive weeks. She then withdrew from the 10 remaining tournaments of the year in an effort to recover her health and improve her fitness. Her plan to rejoin the tour at the beginning of 2005 was delayed when she fractured her kneecap in a December 2004 training session.

On March 25, 2005, after more than six months away from competition, Henin returned to the WTA circuit at the NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami. She lost to second ranked Maria Sharapova in a quarterfinal. She rebounded at her next tournament, winning the clay court Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina. She won two more clay court titles before the start of the 2005 French Open. Her victories over top ranked Lindsay Davenport, Sharapova, Elena Dementieva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Petrova made her a top contender for the title there.

Henin was seeded tenth at the French Open and defeated the French player Mary Pierce, 6-1, 6-1, to take her second title at Roland Garros. The win marked Henin's 24th consecutive clay court win and her tenth consecutive final win, a streak stretching back to Zürich in October 2003. In capturing the title, she defeated Kuznetsova in the fourth round, Sharapova in a quarterfinal, and Petrova in a semifinal.

With her French Open victory, Henin moved from number 12 to number seven in the women's singles rankings. She joined Monica Seles as the only two currently active (in 2005) players on the WTA Tour to have won the French Open at least twice and was a perfect 24-0 in her 2005 clay court season.

At Wimbledon 2005, Henin's win streak of 24 matches was snapped in the first round by Greek Eleni Daniilidou 7-6, 2-6, 7-5. With this defeat, she became the first French Open champion in the open era to lose in the opening round of Wimbledon. A hamstring injury sustained earlier in the year eventually limited Henin to playing in only 11 more matches for 2005.

In 2005, TENNIS Magazine put her in 31st place in its list of 40 Greatest Players of the TENNIS era.

In November, at the 2005 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships, she was named the inaugural winner of the Whirlpool 6th Sense Player of the Year, which honors the player who has demonstrated the most sixth sense intuition, that is to say "heightened intelligence, unbeatable performance and pinpoint precision."

2006

 
Justine Henin at the 2006 Medibank International in Sydney, Australia.

In January 2006, Henin returned to competitive tennis in a tournament in Sydney, a tune-up for the 2006 Australian Open. She was seeded fifth and played former women's singles number one (and newly returned to competitive tennis) Martina Hingis in a much hyped first round match. Henin won 6-3, 6-3. She then defeated former U.S. Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a semifinal 6-3, 6-1, before defeating Francesca Schiavone in the final 4-6, 7-5, 7-5.

In her Australian Open campaign, Henin defeated top ranked Lindsay Davenport and fourth ranked Maria Sharapova in three-set matches to set up a final against third ranked Amélie Mauresmo. While trailing 6-1, 2-0, Henin retired from the match, citing intense stomach pain caused by over-use of anti-inflammatories for a persistent shoulder injury. Henin was criticized by the press because she said after her win against Sharapova in the previous round that she was at the "peak of her fitness" and was playing the "best tennis of her life." She was only the second player, and the first woman, to retire from a Grand Slam final in the open era.

Henin captured her second title of 2006 at a Tier II event in Dubai, defeating Sharapova 7-5, 6-2. This was her third Dubai title, having won previously in 2003 and 2004.

In the following Pacific Life Open Tier I tournament in Indian Wells, Henin lost a semifinal match to fourth seed Elena Dementieva 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 after leading 6-2, 5-1. Henin also was ousted from the Miami NASDAQ-100 Open in the second round by Meghann Shaughnessy 7-5, 6-4. In April, Henin failed to defend her title at the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, her first clay court event of the season. She lost to third-seeded Patty Schnyder 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in a semifinal. It was her first defeat in the Tier I tournament and the end of her 27 match win streak on clay.

In April, Henin led Belgium to victory over defending champion Russia in a Fed Cup quarterfinal. She defeated fifth ranked Nadia Petrova 6-7, 6-4, 6-3, and ninth ranked Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-0. The wins were significant for Henin because Petrova had come into the tie with two consecutive clay court tournament victories and a 10-match clay court winning streak, while Dementieva had defeated Henin in their last meeting in Indian Wells and defeated second ranked Belgian compatriot Kim Clijsters on the first day of the tie.

Henin played at the Tier I German Open as the defending champion and defeated Mauresmo 6-1, 6-2 in a semifinal. However, she lost to Petrova in the final 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.

At the French Open in June, Henin rebounded from her loss in Berlin. In a semifinal match, Henin defeated second seeded Clijsters 6-3, 6-2. She then defeated Kuznetsova in the final 6-4, 6-4 to win her third title in four years there. Henin captured the title without the loss of a set and became the first French Open champion to defend her title successfully since Steffi Graf in 1996.

At the Eastbourne grass court tournament, Henin won the final against Anastasia Myskina 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(5).

Henin was the third seed going into Wimbledon and advanced to her third consecutive Grand Slam final without losing a set. She defeated Clijsters (who was seeded second) in a semifinal 6-4, 7-6(4) but lost the final to Mauresmo 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Henin withdrew from Tier 1 events in San Diego and Montreal because of injury but entered the Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven. There, she defeated Kuznetsova and Davenport en route to the title. It was her 28th WTA tour title. She returned to the number 2 ranking and crossed over US $12 millon in career prize money.

At the U.S. Open, Sharapova defeated Henin 6-4, 6-4 in the final.

Henin was the first woman since Hingis in 1997 to reach the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments in a calendar year. This was also the first time that both a man and a woman have reached the finals of all Grand Slams in one year, the man being Roger Federer.

Henin guaranteed her year end world No. 1 ranking by reaching the final of the WTA Tour Championships, defeating Sharapova 6-2, 7-6(5) in a semifinal. Henin then won the tournament for the first time in her career by defeating Mauresmo in the final 6-4 6-3.

Henin is the first player since Hingis in 2000 to win the WTA Tour Championships and end the year as the top ranked player. Henin is the first woman to win at least one Grand Slam singles title in four consecutive years since Graf from 1993 through 1996. Her prize money earnings for 2006 totaled U.S. $4,204,810.

2007

On January 4, 2007, Henin withdrew from the Australian Open and the warm-up tournament in Sydney for personal reasons, which resulted in her losing the No. 1 ranking to Maria Sharapova.

In her first tournament of the year, Henin lost in the semifinals of the Open Gaz de France to Czech Lucie Safarova 7-6(5), 6-4.

Henin then won two hardcourt tournaments in the Middle East. She won the Dubai Duty Free Women's Open for the fourth time in the last five years, defeating Amelie Mauresmo in the final 6-4, 7-5. In Doha, she won her first Qatar Total Open title, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final 6-4, 6-2. She also reached US$14 million in career prize money earnings, and on March 19th, she regained the No. 1 ranking.

At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Henin reached the final for the first time in her career, where she lost to Serena Williams 0-6, 7-5, 6-3 after Henin had two match points at 6-0, 5-4.

Henin withdrew from the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina with an ongoing respiratory problem. Her next tournament was the J&S Cup in Warsaw, Poland, which she won, beating Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-1, 6-3 in the final.

Later at the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Henin won a marathon quarterfinal against Jelena Janković 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 after being behind 4-0 in the third set. However, she lost her semifinal against Kuznetsova 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, which was only her second loss to Kuznetsova in 16 career meetings.

Her next tournament is the French Open, where she is the defending champion and has recieved first seed. On the first round of the French Open, Justine Henin defeated Vesnina of Russia with the result 6-4, 6-3 in 89 minutes. After also passing the second and third round, she beat Serena Williams in two sets in the quarterfinals.

Awards

2003

2004

2005

  • Family Circle/State Farm "Player Who Makes A Difference".
  • Whirlpool 6th Sense Player of the Year.

2006

  • Appointed UNESCO Champion for Sport.[9]
  • ITF World Champion.
  • Belgian Sportswoman of the Year
  • Member of the Belgian Sporting Team of the Year (Fed Cup - Team)
  • European Sportswoman of the Year

Grand Slam singles finals

Wins (5)

Year Championship Opponent in Final Score in Final
2003 French Open   Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4
2003 U.S. Open   Kim Clijsters 7-5, 6-1
2004 Australian Open   Kim Clijsters 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
2005 French Open (2)   Mary Pierce 6-1, 6-1
2006 French Open (3)   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-4

Runner-ups (4)

Year Championship Opponent in Final Score in Final
2001 Wimbledon   Venus Williams 6-1, 3-6, 6-0
2006 Australian Open   Amélie Mauresmo 6-1, 2-0 retired
2006 Wimbledon   Amélie Mauresmo 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
2006 U.S. Open   Maria Sharapova 6-4, 6-4

Titles (34)

Singles (32)

No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 10 May 1999 Antwerp, Belgium Clay   Sarah Pitkowski-Malcor 6-1, 6-2
2. 1 January 2001 Gold Coast, Australia Hard   Silvia Farina Elia 7-6(5), 6-4
3. 8 January 2001 Canberra, Australia Hard   Sandrine Testud 6-2, 6-2
4. 18 June 2001 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Grass   Kim Clijsters 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
5. 6 May 2002 Berlin, Germany Clay   Serena Williams 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(5)
6. 21 October 2002 Linz, Austria Carpet   Alexandra Stevenson 6-3, 6-0
7. 17 February 2003 Dubai, UAE Hard   Monica Seles 4-6, 7-6(4), 7-5
8. 7 April 2003 Charleston, South Carolina, USA Clay   Serena Williams 6-3, 6-4
9. 5 May 2003 Berlin, Germany Clay   Kim Clijsters 6-4, 4-6, 7-5
10. 26 May 2003 French Open, Paris, France Clay   Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4
11. 28 July 2003 San Diego, California, USA Hard   Kim Clijsters 3-6, 6-2, 6-3
12. 11 August 2003 Toronto, Canada Hard   Lina Krasnoroutskaya 6-1, 6-0
13. 25 August 2003 U.S. Open, New York City, USA Hard   Kim Clijsters 7-5, 6-1
14. 13 October 2003 Zürich, Switzerland Hard   Jelena Dokic 6-0, 6-4
15. 12 January 2004 Sydney, Australia Hard   Amélie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-4
16. 19 January 2004 Australian Open, Melbourne, Australia Hard   Kim Clijsters 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
17. 23 February 2004 Dubai, UAE Hard   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 7-6(3)
18. 8 March 2004 Indian Wells, California, USA Hard   Lindsay Davenport 6-1, 6-4
19. 16 August 2004 The Olympics, Athens, Greece Hard   Amélie Mauresmo 6-3, 6-3
20. 17 April 2005 Charleston, South Carolina, USA Clay   Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-4
21. 1 May 2005 Warsaw, Poland Clay   Svetlana Kuznetsova 3-6, 6-2, 7-5
22. 8 May 2005 Berlin, Germany Clay   Nadia Petrova 6-3, 4-6, 6-3
23. 4 June 2005 French Open, Paris, France Clay   Mary Pierce 6-1, 6-1
24. 13 January 2006 Sydney, Australia Hard   Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-5, 7-5
25. 25 February 2006 Dubai, UAE Hard   Maria Sharapova 7-5, 6-2
26. 10 June 2006 French Open, Paris, France Clay   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-4
27. 24 June 2006 Eastbourne, United Kingdom Grass   Anastasia Myskina 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(5)
28. 26 August 2006 New Haven, Connecticut, USA Hard   Lindsay Davenport 6-0, 1-0 retired
29. 12 November 2006 WTA Tour Championships, Madrid, Spain Hard   Amélie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-3
30. 24 February 2007 Dubai, UAE Hard   Amélie Mauresmo 6-4, 7-5
31. 3 March 2007 Doha, Qatar Hard   Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-2
32. 7 May 2007 Warsaw, Poland Clay   Alyona Bondarenko 6-1, 6-3

Doubles (2)

No. Date Partner Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. 2002   Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) Gold Coast, Australia Hard   Åsa Svensson (Sweden) &
  Miriam Oremans (Netherlands) 		6-1, 7-6(6)
2. 2002   Elena Bovina (Russia) Zürich, Switzerland Carpet   Jelena Dokic (Serbia and Montenegro) &
  Nadia Petrova (Russia) 		6-2, 7-6(2)

Runner-ups (17)

Singles (16)

Doubles (1)

Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Germany, which ended on May 13, 2007.

Tournament 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Career SR Career Win-Loss
Grand Slams
Australian Open A 2R 4R QF SF W A F A 1 / 6 26-5
French Open 2R A SF 1R W 2R W W 3 / 7 28-4
Wimbledon A 1R F SF SF A 1R F 0 / 6 22-6
U.S. Open 1R 4R 4R 4R W 4R 4R F 1 / 8 28-7
Grand Slam SR 0 / 2 0 / 3 0 / 4 0 / 4 2 / 4 1 / 3 1 / 3 1 / 4 0 / 0 5 / 27 N/A
Grand Slam Win-Loss 1-2 4-3 17-4 12-4 24-2 11-2 10-2 25-3 0-0 N/A 104-22
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics NH NH NH NH NH W NH NH NH 1 / 1 6-0
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships A A QF QF SF A A W 1 / 4 8-5
WTA Tier I tournaments
Tokyo A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0 0-0
Indian Wells A A 3R 4R A W A SF A 1 / 4 13-3
Miami A A 3R 2R QF A QF 2R F 0 / 6 12-6
Charleston A A A A W A W SF A 2 / 3 14-1
Berlin A A SF W W A W F SF 3 / 6 27-3
Rome A A A F A A A A A 0 / 1 4-1
San Diego1 A A A A W A A A 1 / 1 5-0
Montreal/Toronto A 2R QF QF W A F A 1 / 5 16-4
Moscow A A 2R A A A A A 0 / 1 0-1
Zürich A A A SF W A A A 1 / 2 6-1
Career Statistics
Tournaments played 7 13 21 23 18 9 9 13 6 N/A 119
Finals reached 1 0 6 6 11 5 5 10 4 N/A 48
Tournaments Won 1 0 3 2 8 5 4 6 3 N/A 32
Hardcourt Win-Loss 2-2 22-7 31-11 16-10 40-6 31-2 10-4 32-5 13-1 N/A 197-48
Clay Win-Loss 9-2 3-2 14-4 14-4 19-1 4-2 24-0 14-2 7-1 N/A 108-18
Grass Win-Loss 0-0 1-2 10-1 7-2 8-2 0-0 0-1 10-1 0-0 N/A 36-9
Carpet Win-Loss 3-2 2-2 1-2 13-5 5-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-1 N/A 26-14
Overall Win-Loss 14-6 28-13 56-18 50-21 72-11 35-4 34-5 56-8 22-3 N/A 367-892
Year End Ranking 69 45 7 5 1 8 6 1 N/A N/A

A = did not participate in the tournament.

SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played.

1 The San Diego tournament achieved Tier I status only in 2004.

2 If the ITF women's circuit (Hardcourt: 24-5; Clay: 33-7) and Fed Cup (10-1) participations are included, then her overall win-loss record stands at 434-102.

WTA Tour career earnings

Year Majors WTA wins Total wins Earnings ($) Money list rank
2001 0 3 3 998,704 8
2002 0 2 2 1,213,093 6
2003 2 6 8 3,667,430 2
2004 1 4 5 1,570,656 8
2005 1 3 4 1,705,173 6
2006 1 5 6 $4,204,810 1
2007* 0 3 3

$860,200

2

Career 5 27 32 $14,386,389 10
*As of May 28, 2007.

Notable matches

  • 2003 Australian Open fourth round: defeated Lindsay Davenport 7-5, 5-7, 9-7. In a match lasting more than three hours, Henin overcame a 4-1 final set deficit, high temperatures, and muscle cramps to defeat Davenport for the first time in her career.[3] [4]
  • 2003 U.S. Open semifinal: defeated Jennifer Capriati 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(4). Capriati was two points away from victory eleven times in a match that stretched to midnight. After her victory, Henin went to the hospital for rehydration treatment. The next day, she defeated fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters for the title.[5] [6]
  • 2004 Athens Olympics semifinal: defeated Anastasia Myskina 7-5, 5-7, 8-6. After months of layoff due to a virus, Henin competed in the Olympics. Henin rallied from 5-1 down in the third set to defeat reigning French Open champion Myskina. She went on to capture the gold medal.[7] [8]
  • 2005 French Open fourth round: defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-5. Henin saved two match points to earn a quarterfinal spot. In winning the tournament, she became only the second woman to win the French Open after saving a match point. (Myskina accomplished the feat a year before, also against Kuznetsova.)[9]
  • 2005 Wimbledon first round: lost to Eleni Daniilidou 7-6(8), 2-6, 7-5. It was the first time that a reigning French Open champion failed to win a match at Wimbledon.[10] [11]
  • 2006 Australian Open final: lost to Amélie Mauresmo 6-1, 2-0. Henin retired from the match with stomach pain. This was only the fourth Grand Slam women's singles final that ended by retirement since 1900 and the first in the open era. Henin stated afterwards that she feared possible injury had she continued to play. She was widely criticized by tennis commentators and writers for not finishing the match.[10][11]
  • 2006 Wimbledon final: lost to Mauresmo 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. The final round was notable for featuring two "finesse" players who used their all-court games, a notable break from the previous years that featured a succession of power baseliners claiming the title. At almost every point throughout the match, both players approached the net to serve and volley. Tipped as the tournament favorite, Henin won the first set over Mauresmo. But Mauresmo recovered, winning the next two sets and keeping her composure to win her second Grand Slam title and deny the Belgian a career Grand Slam.[12] [13] [14]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Resilient Henin takes U.S. Open title". The Hindu. 2003-09-07. Retrieved 2006-09-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ McClure, Geoff (2004-01-29). "Sporting Life". The Age. Retrieved 2006-09-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Bedell, Geraldine (2003-10-05). "Face to face". The Observer. Retrieved 2006-08-29. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Hometown marriage for tennis star Henin". 2002-11-16. Retrieved 2006-08-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ "Justine va reprendre son nom de jeune fille". Le Soir. 2007-01-04. Retrieved 2007-01-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  8. ^ Serras, M. (2003-06-08). "Justine lanza la raqueta al cielo". El Pais (in Spanish). Retrieved 2006-08-29. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  9. ^ "Justine Hénin-Hardenne appointed UNESCO Champion for Sport" (Press release). UNESCO. 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2006-09-06. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Collins, Bud (2006-01-29). "Henin-Hardenne took the queasy way out". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2006-09-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Shriver, Pam (2006-09-29). "Shriver: Henin-Hardenne's reputation is tarnished". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2006-09-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
Preceded by
Kim Clijsters
Kim Clijsters
Amélie Mauresmo
Maria Sharapova
 World No. 1
October 20, 2003 - October 26, 2003
November 10, 2003 - September 12, 2004
November 13, 2006 - January 22, 2007
March 19, 2007 - current
 Succeeded by
Kim Clijsters
Amélie Mauresmo
Maria Sharapova
Incumbent
Preceded by WTA Most Improved Player
2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by WTA Player of the Year
2003 		Succeeded by
Maria Sharapova
Preceded by
Serena Williams
Kim Clijsters
 ITF World Champion
2003
2006 		Succeeded by


Preceded by Belgian Sportswoman of the Year
2003–2004
2006 		Succeeded by


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