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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.
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Henin recovered from a breakdown in the final set to win in a third-set tiebreak for the second consecutive year.
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Williams then went on to win the Open Gaz de France in Paris when Jelena Dokić withdrew from the final, and the Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Henin in the final.
Both opponents retired from their respective matches, Clijsters with a right ankle sprain in the third set of their semifinal and Henin from gastroenteritis in the 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.
On 4 January 2007, Henin withdrew from the upcoming tournaments in Australia, including the Australian Open, due to personal problems.
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.
On 25 March, after more than six months away from competition, Henin returned to the Women's Tennis Association tour at the Miami Masters.
With her French Open victory, Henin moved from World No. 12 to World No. 7 in the women's singles rankings.
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 withdrew from Tier I events in San Diego and Montreal because of injury but played the tournament in New Haven, Connecticut.
However, Henin retired from the deciding doubles match because of a knee injury while she and her partner Kirsten Flipkens were trailing 3 – 6, 6 – 2, 2 – 0, giving Italy the championship.
Henin was the first woman to win at least one Grand Slam singles title in four consecutive years since Steffi Graf from 1993 through 1996.
On 4 January 2007, Henin withdrew from the Australian Open and the warm-up tournament in Sydney to deal with the break-up of her marriage.
Henin then withdrew from the Tier I Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina because of an injury to her right knee.
The day after her defeat, Henin withdrew from the Tier I Internazionali BNL d ' Italia in Rome, citing fatigue.
Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis on 14 May 2008, and requested the Women's Tennis Association to remove her name from the rankings immediately.
Henin defeated Sania Mirza from India in the first round 5 – 7, 6 – 3, 6 – 1 and Elena Baltacha in the second round, 6 – 1, 6 – 3.
On 26 January 2011, Henin announced her definitive retirement from professional tennis, due to an exacerbation of the elbow injury she sustained the previous year at Wimbledon.
On 14 May 2008, Henin announced her immediate retirement from professional tennis.
Capriati served for the match twice and was two points away from victory eleven times, but Henin prevailed 4 – 6, 7 – 5, 7 – 6 ( 4 ), in a three hour marathon.
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This enabled Justine Henin, who won the French Open in 2007, to earn over $ 5 million that year, becoming the first woman in sports to do this.
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.
In the fourth round of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Henin defeated Lindsay Davenport 7 – 5, 5 – 7, 9 – 7.
At the Dubai Tennis Championships one week later, Henin defeated former World No. 1 Monica Seles in the final 4 – 6, 7 – 6, 7 – 5 after Seles had a match point at 5 – 4 in the second set.
The following week, Henin reached the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, losing to eventual winner Elena Dementieva 3 – 6, 6 – 4, 7 – 5.
Henin then helped Belgium defeat Austria 5 – 0 in a first round tie of the Fed Cup.
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 won both her singles matches to help Belgium win the tie 5 – 0.
Henin then defeated sixth-seeded Jennifer Capriati in the semifinals 4 – 6, 7 – 5, 7 – 6 ( 4 ) in a match that lasted more than three hours and stretched to midnight.
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.
Henin saved two match points to defeat Kuznetsova in the fourth round 7 – 6 ( 6 ), 4 – 6, 7 – 5 and thus became only the second woman to win the French Open after saving a match point.
Henin captured her second title of the year at a Tier II event in Dubai, defeating Sharapova 7 – 5, 6 – 2.
At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Henin lost in the semifinals to fourth-seeded Elena Dementieva 2 – 6, 7 – 5, 7 – 5 after leading 6 – 2, 5 – 2 and serving for the match twice.
Henin also lost in the second round of the Tier I Miami Masters to Meghann Shaughnessy 7 – 5, 6 – 4.
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 ).
At the Miami Masters, Henin reached the final for the first time in her career, where she lost to Serena Williams 0 – 6, 7 – 5, 6 – 3 after holding two match points at 6 – 0, 5 – 4.
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* 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
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 was leading in both matches at the time of the retirements, by 6 – 1, 2 – 0 against Henin.
To conclude the year, Mauresmo reached the final of the WTA Tour Championships in Madrid, losing to Henin, 4 – 6, 3 – 6.
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.
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