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Kim Clijsters Eliminated from French Open
Belgian Tennis Star Suffers Surprising Upset
Belgian tennis star and 2-time French Open finalist Kim Clijsters was eliminated from the French Open by Arantxa Rus on Thursday in a surprising upset.
Clijsters threw away two match points in the second set before going on to lose the second set and all but one game in the third. The final score: 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 Rus.
"I started doubting a little bit," said Clijsters, who had been suffering with an ankle injury not long ago. "When you start doubting yourself on any surface, but for me definitely on clay, it's the wrong attitude to have."
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Clijsters made 65 unforced errors compared to Rus's 22. With her ankle taped, Clijsters also lost 11 of the last 12 games of the match.
"My ankle feels fine, so that has absolutely nothing to do with it," Clijsters said. "If I felt like I wasn't ready as much as I would have liked to be, I wouldn't have come here. If I wasn't feeling like I was able to play tough matches, then I wouldn't have made that decision to come here."
Rus explains that a change in attitude during the second set was what helped her to come back from a 2-5 deficit.
"When I was 5-2 down in the second set, I was thinking, 'Just go for it and play more aggressive,'" said Rus. "And, yeah, that really helped.
"At 6-5 I had a really good serve game, and then I won the set. Then I was thinking, 'Yeah, I can win this match."
Rus is now in the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her life.
(Sources: ESPN.com)
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