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 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.

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.

During the European clay court season, Williams won the Tier II tournament in Hamburg but lost in the third round of the Tier I EUROCARD Ladies German Open to World No. 18 Justine Henin and the first round of the French Open to Barbara Schett.

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.

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

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.

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.

Henin then helped Belgium defeat Austria 5 – 0 in a first round tie of the Fed Cup.

By the end of the 2004 spring hard court season, Henin had built a 25-match Tier I winning streak and a 22 – 1 win-loss record ( winning her first 16 matches ).

Petrova had come into the tie with two consecutive clay court tournament victories and a 10-match clay court winning streak, while Dementieva had defeated Henin in their last meeting in Indian Wells and defeated second ranked Belgian compatriot Kim Clijsters on the first day of the tie.

Henin captured the title without losing a set and became the first French Open champion to defend her title successfully since Steffi Graf in 1996.

Tipped as the tournament favorite, Henin won the first set.

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 then defeated Mauresmo and won the tournament for the first time in her career.

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.

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.

At the US Open, Henin defeated her first four opponents in straight sets, with a 6 – 0 set in each match.

In the semifinals against Venus Williams, Henin was up a break in the first set but could not hold it.

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.

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.

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 had struggled for three hours in her first match against Katarina Srebotnik, eventually winning 7 – 5, 6 – 7, 6 – 3.

This was the first time in their long rivalry that Henin and Serena Williams met in a Grand Slam Final.