Justine Henin (; born 1 June 1982 ), known as Justine Henin-Hardenne between 2002 and 2007, is a Belgian retired professional tennis player and former World No. 1.

Henin was also known for serving and volleying ( later on in her career ) on set points and match points, such as on Championship point at the 2007 US Open Final against Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Garbin is probably best known for her shocking defeat of the defending champion and the reigning World No. 1 Justine Henin in the second round of the 2004 French Open.

Unfortunately Henin had to pull out and Serena Williams replaced her as the match was played in front of the largest crowd ever for a single match, beating the attendance set at the Battle of the Sexes.

Williams then successfully defended her Wimbledon title, defeating third-seeded Davenport in the semifinals and eighth-seeded Henin in three sets in Henin's first Wimbledon final.

Upon Henin's first retirement from the WTA in the early part of the 2008 season, Billie Jean King said that " pound for pound, Henin is the best tennis player of her generation ", as well as that " Justine is the best women's athlete I've ever seen.

" Henin made a return to the WTA in early 2010, losing the final of the Australian Open in only her 2nd tournament back.

Despite her relatively small size, Henin has a powerful serve, which has been measured at a top speed of 196 km / h ( 122 mph ) at the 2005 Family Circle Cup.

Her father is José Henin ; her mother, Françoise Rosière, was a French and history teacher who died when Justine was 12 years old.

Henin saw the 1992 final involving her idol Steffi Graf and Monica Seles.

In 1995, shortly after her mother's death, Henin met her coach Carlos Rodriguez who guided her career both before her retirement in 2008 and during her 2010 comeback.

The same year, she reverted to using her maiden name, Justine Henin.

By the end of the year, Henin was ranked seventh in singles, with three titles to her name.

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.

In May, Henin successfully defended her Tier I title at the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin.

She defeated the defending champion, Serena Williams, in a controversial semifinal 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 7 – 5 which saw Henin failing to acknowledge her raised hand during Williams service motion, a breach in tennis etiquette.

Henin then began her preparations for Wimbledon.

At the grass court Ordina Open in Rosmalen, Henin lost in the final to Clijsters when Henin was forced to retire from the match after injuring her finger.

Henin won both her singles matches to help Belgium win the tie 5 – 0.

At the Tier I Zurich Open the following week, Henin reached her sixth consecutive final where she defeated Serbia's Jelena Dokić.

Henin, however, held this ranking for only one week as she declined to defend her title at the Generali Ladies Linz tournament in Linz, Austria.

At the WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles, Henin defeated Myskina and Capriati but lost to Japan's Ai Sugiyama in her round robin matches.

1 Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, but was forced to retire with a right shoulder injury while playing Justine Henin in the final.

Although Braid was the first to use the terms hypnotism, hypnotize and hypnotist in English, the cognate terms hypnotique, hypnotisme, hypnotiste had been intentionally used by the French magnetist Baron Etienne Félix d ' Henin de Cuvillers ( 1755 – 1841 ) at least as early as 1820.

Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Belgian Justine Henin in the final.

Mauresmo was leading in both matches at the time of the retirements, by 6 – 1, 2 – 0 against Henin.

After losing to Henin in the final of the International Women's Open in Eastbourne, 5 – 7, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), 6 – 7 ( 2 ), after being up 4 – 1 in the deciding set, defending champion Mauresmo went into Wimbledon saying that she was ready to win another major title.

Justine Henin was born in Liège.

At the French Open, Henin was the fourth seeded player.

At Wimbledon, Henin was the third seeded player.

Henin was the second-seeded player at the US Open.

Henin recovered from a 5 – 3 deficit in the second set and a 5 – 2 deficit in the final set and was just two points from defeat eleven times.

Henin was named the International Tennis Federation's women's singles World Champion for 2003.

Henin was seeded tenth at the French Open and defeated the French player Mary Pierce in the final in straight sets to take her second title at Roland Garros.

Henin was a perfect 24 – 0 on clay this year and 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.

Henin was criticized by the press because she had stated after her semifinal win against Sharapova that she was at the " peak of her fitness " and was playing the " best tennis of her life ".

Henin was the third seed going into Wimbledon and advanced to her third consecutive Grand Slam final without losing a set.

Henin was the first player since Hingis in 2000 to win the WTA Tour Championships and end the year as the top-ranked player.

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Williams began 2002 by winning the Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia, defeating Henin in the final.

Williams started 2003 by defeating fifth seed Justine Henin to make the final of the Australian Open for the first time.

Henin started 2004 by winning a warm-up tournament in Sydney.

Henin reached the gold medal match by defeating reigning French Open champion Anastasia Myskina in a semifinal 7 – 5, 5 – 7, 8 – 6 after having trailed 1 – 5 in the final set.

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 guaranteed her year-end World No. 1 ranking by reaching the final of the Sony Ericsson Championships, defeating Maria Sharapova in the semifinals 6 – 2, 7 – 6 ( 5 ).

Two weeks later, Henin won the Zurich Open, her ninth title of the year, by again defeating Golovin in the final.

She also became the first woman to break the US $ 5 million barrier in prize money in a year, and by crossing US $ 19 million, Henin is now ranked fifth on the all time prize money list.

Henin mentioned seeing Roger Federer finally complete the grand slam of titles by winning the French Open in 2009 had been an inspiration, as had Kim Clijsters return to the tour and her victory at the US Open.

Established her place among the game elite with a win in Sarasota, Myskina also had mediocre results during the summer season were followed by a quarterfinal appearance at the US Open, back-to-back titles in Leipzig ( defeating No. 1 Kim Clijsters and No. 2 Justine Henin ) and Moscow, which was her first Tier I title.

Petrova continued her success by reaching the semi-finals of Zurich, beating World No. 8 and US Open finalist before losing to Henin 6 – 4, 6 – 4.

At the US Open, she pulled off the biggest win of her career by defeating World No. 1 and defending champion Justine Henin 6 – 3, 6 – 2 in the fourth round.

At the Olympics in Athens, Pierce defeated sixth-seeded Venus Williams in the third round 6 – 4, 6 – 4 before losing to top-seeded and eventual Gold-medallist Justine Henin of Belgium in the quarterfinals by the same score.

6 Justine Henin, 6 – 1, 3 – 6, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), in round four, only to be beaten in her second consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal by Serena Williams ( who again went on to win the title ).

In the second round, however, she was defeated by Former World No. 1 and 2004 Australian Open Champion Justine Henin 6 – 1, 6 – 3.

It is used by most pros with strong single-handed backhand drives, like Gustavo Kuerten, Roger Federer and Richard Gasquet among the men and Justine Henin among the women.

She went on to win her first title at the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL in Acapulco, and completed a career best showing at Roland Garros, by reaching the quarterfinals, where she lost to Justine Henin.

She has shown great improvement in these areas, and the weaknesses are seen less frequently now, as evidenced by her calm dispatch of the four-time Roland Garros champion and former World No. 1 Justine Henin ; one time Roland Garros champion and the then-World No. 1 Serena Williams ; and former World No. 1 Jelena Janković, in the 4th round, quarter-final and semi-final at the 2010 Roland Garros respectively.

In the second round she gained the biggest victory of her career by defeating former world No. 1 Justine Henin in just over 2 hours.

She then reached the semifinals of the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, where she was defeated by World No. 1 Justine Henin 6 – 2, 6 – 3.