Clijsters eyes Dubai event for eagerly- awaited comeback Brussels: Four- time Grand Slam winner Kim Clijsters announced on Sunday she will return after seven years in retirement at the WTA tournament in Dubai starting on February 17.
Clijsters, 36, former number one, who hung up her racquet after the 2012 US Open, said: u201c I am so thrilled to be returning to the court.
Iu2019m impatient to resume this sport which I love, in front of the fans.u201d Clijsters had originally planned to make her return at last monthu2019s Australian Open.
A knee issue scuppered that plan, with Mexico in March then proposed as an alternative, before she accepted an invitation from the Dubai organisers.
AFP
