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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.
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1 Amélie Mauresmo in the quarterfinals, but was forced to retire with a right shoulder injury while playing Justine Henin in the final.
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.
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.
Her father is José Henin ; her mother, Françoise Rosière, was a French and history teacher who died when Justine was 12 years old.
Henin, known as " Juju " to many of her fans, was coached by Carlos Rodriguez of Argentina.
By the end of the year, Henin was ranked seventh in singles, with three titles to her name.
At the French Open, Henin was the fourth seeded player.
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.
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 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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In the final, Henin overcame Sharapova in three sets in a match that lasted 3 hours, 24 minutes.
However, on March 24, 2006, Shaughnessy demolished Number 3 seed Justine Henin 7 – 5, 6 – 4 in the second round ( Henin's 1st round ) of the Nasdaq 100 Tournament in Miami.
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* 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
To conclude the year, Mauresmo reached the final of the WTA Tour Championships in Madrid, losing to Henin, 4 – 6, 3 – 6.
In the fourth round of the Australian Open in Melbourne, Henin defeated Lindsay Davenport 7 – 5, 5 – 7, 9 – 7.
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.
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.
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Henin won both her singles matches to help Belgium win the tie 5 – 0.
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.
At the US Open, Maria Sharapova defeated Henin in the final after Henin had defeated Lindsey Davenport in the quarterfinals and Jelena Janković in the semifinals 4 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 0.
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.
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.
Later, at the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Henin won her quarterfinal against Jelena Janković 3 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 4 after being behind 4 – 0 in the third set, only to lose her semifinal against Kuznetsova 6 – 4, 5 – 7, 6 – 4.
In the semifinal, Henin was up a break at 1 – 0 and 4 – 3 in the second set, but could not hold the lead.
At the US Open, Henin defeated her first four opponents in straight sets, with a 6 – 0 set in each match.
In the second set, Henin was ahead 3 – 0 before Williams leveled the set at 3 – 3.
Although Henin had already clinched a spot in the semifinals, both Henin and Bartoli did not know Bartoli had to replace Serena Williams until several hours before the match and lost 6 – 0, 6 – 0.
The winning streak ended in the quarterfinals when Sharapova, the eventual winner, defeated Henin 6 – 4, 6 – 0.
This was Henin's first 6 – 0 loss since the 2002 French Open and the first time since the 2005 US Open that Henin had been defeated in a Grand Slam singles tournament before the semifinals.
Henin won 7 – 6, 7 – 5 after having been down 0 – 3 in the second set.
She fell to former World No. 1 Justine Henin 6 – 7, 5 – 7 in a tight match after leading 3 – 0 in the second set.
7 Justine Henin in the second round in a three setter, 6 – 1, 0 – 6, 3 – 6.
The US Open arrived, and, seeded twenty-eighth, she defeated Zuzana Ondrášková, Tathiana Garbin before falling to second seed Justine Henin 4 – 6 6 – 1 6 – 0.
Justine Henin, 6 – 1, 3 – 6, 6 – 0.
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