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 | Kim Clijsters came top of WTA rankings12-02-2011 |
Belgian Kim Clijsters will take first place in the WTA rankings on Monday after defeating Jelena Dokic 6:3, 6:3 in a quarterfinal match of the tennis tournament for women in the French capital Paris.
Champion of the Australian Open garnered enough points for first place, which has not been since 2006 and onwards. It will overtake died in the week Dane Caroline Voznyatski that stays long in the first place, although it has not won a Grand Slam.
Clijsters has held first place three times so far, two of them in 2003-a year and one in 2006-a. She withdrew from professional tennis in 2007 and a year to give birth to her child. Shortly after his return won the Belgian edition of 2009-a year the U.S. Open.
27-year-old Clijsters will face Kaia Kanepi estonkata the semifinals in Paris. She beat Dominika Cibulkova Slovak tennis player with 6:2, 2:6, 6:2. The other semifinal will play Czech girl Petra Kvitova and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.