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Henin was named the International Tennis Federation's women's singles World Champion for 2003.
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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 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.
Henin and International
Henin started the year as the fifth ranked player in the world but lost to Kim Clijsters in the semifinals of the Medibank International in Sydney.
Justine Henin at the 2006 Medibank International in Sydney, Australia.
Henin made her return to tennis at the 2010 Brisbane International where she was given a wildcard.
In her first grass tournament of the season, International Women's Open, Vaidišová lost in the quarterfinals to World No. 1 Justine Henin.
Henin and Tennis
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.
Two weeks later at the indoor Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Filderstadt, Germany, Henin lost in the final to Clijsters.
This win caused Henin to become the thirteenth World No. 1 on the Women's Tennis Association computer on 20 October 2003.
On 25 March, after more than six months away from competition, Henin returned to the Women's Tennis Association tour at the Miami Masters.
Henin won her next tournament, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, defeating Tatiana Golovin in the final.
Two weeks later at the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, Henin was the defending champion but lost for the first time in eight meetings to Francesca Schiavone in the quarterfinals 7 – 6 ( 3 ), 7 – 6 ( 4 ).
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 and women's
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 established herself as a major competitor in 2001 when she reached the women's singles semifinals of the French Open and then upset the reigning Australian Open and French Open champion Jennifer Capriati in the semifinals of Wimbledon, losing to defending champion Venus Williams in three sets in the final.
After months of layoff because of a virus, Henin returned to competition in August and won the women's singles gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, defeating Amélie Mauresmo of France in the final 6 – 3, 6 – 3.
With her French Open victory, Henin moved from World No. 12 to World No. 7 in the women's singles rankings.
Justine Henin's backhand was considered on par with the men's, with all time great John McEnroe saying " Justine Henin has the best single-handed backhand in both the men's and women's game.
Henin and singles
Henin won 43 WTA singles titles and seven Grand Slam singles titles, including four French Open titles, one Australian Open title, and two US Open titles.
Henin won both her singles matches to help Belgium win the tie 5 – 0.
Henin became the first woman since Hingis in 1997 to reach the finals of all four Grand Slam singles tournaments in a calendar year.
Henin won both of her singles matches during the Fed Cup final against Italy in Charleroi, Belgium.
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.
In the final, Henin won her second US Open singles title, defeating Kuznetsova in straight sets, 6 – 1, 6 – 3.
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.
At the French Open, she reached the singles final for the third time, where she lost to Henin in straight sets in a crushing 6 – 1 6 – 1 defeat.
Pennetta has defeated multiple Grand Slam singles champions such as Justine Henin, Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis, Amélie Mauresmo, Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova.
* Henin became the first Belgian player ( male or female ) to reach the Wimbledon singles final.
She won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Ordina Open, beating Amélie Mauresmo, Elena Dementieva and Henin ; and reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time at Wimbledon.
In the World Group quarterfinal tie against Belgium, Kirilenko lost her singles match against 2005 US Open champion Kim Clijsters, but partnering with Dinara Safina, won her doubles match against Justine Henin and Clijsters.
Both Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin won their singles matches to seal the first victory for Belgium against Russia in Madrid.
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