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

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.

As the top seed at Wimbledon, Williams defeated Henin in the semifinals to make the final for the third consecutive year.

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.

In the final, Henin saved three match points in the third set before defeating Clijsters.

At the Australian Open, Henin defeated top-ranked Lindsay Davenport and fourth ranked Maria Sharapova in three-set matches to set up a final against third ranked Amélie Mauresmo.

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 final, Henin defeated Ana Ivanovic in straight sets, 6 – 1, 6 – 2 to claim her third consecutive French Open title, equalling Seles's open era record.

Henin then faced Serena Williams in the quarterfinals for the third consecutive time in a Grand Slam tournament, and for the third time, Henin won, 7 – 6 ( 3 ), 6 – 1.

Henin ended the year ranked World No. 1 for the third time in her career, having done so previously in 2003 and 2006.

At the Tier I, clay court Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Henin lost in the third round to Dinara Safina 5 – 7, 6 – 3, 6 – 1, in what turned out to be her last match before retirement.

In the third round, Henin defeated Dominika Cibulková in 93 minutes, 6 – 4, 6 – 4 advancing to the quarterfinals where Henin thrashed Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1, 6 – 4 to set up a meeting in the quarterfinals with World No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki.

In the third round, facing former World No. 1 Maria Sharapova, Henin ended her streak of consecutive sets at 40, losing the 2nd set to Sharapova but going on to win 6 – 2, 3 – 6, 6 – 3.

She showed splashes of her old form during the grass season, having reached the Eastbourne final beautifully, losing to Justine Henin in a close final concluded in a third set tiebreak.

She reached her third career final at the Qatar Total German Open in May, beating Mary Pierce, Amélie Mauresmo and Jelena Janković, before losing to Justine Henin.

Petrova then fell to 17th seed Justine Henin in the third round, 6 – 1 6 – 4.

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.

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.

In May, at the clay-court event in Berlin, Safina defeated World No. 1 Justine Henin in the third round.

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

At the French Open, Henin was the two-time defending champion and top seed.

Henin began the grass court season at the 2010 UNICEF Open, where she was the top seed for the first time since her return.

At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Henin was the No. 17 seed.

Henin was the 11th seed and a defending finalist at the 2011 Australian Open.

After drawing comeback queen Justine Henin as the number two seed, Petrova lost in a close 5 – 7, 5 – 7 match.

She lost in the first round in her debuts at the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon, although she reached the fourth round at the US Open before losing to second seed and eventual champion Justine Henin.

As the 7th seed at the Tier I Indian Wells tournament, Molik made the fourth round before losing to a returning Justine Henin 6 – 4 2 – 6 6 – 2.

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.

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.

2006 proved to be a good season for Schnyder also, staying within the top 10 and reaching the finals in Charleston ( defeating top seed and defending champion Justine Henin in the semifinalss and also ending Henin's 2-match winning streak on clay, though Schnyder lost to Petrova in the final ), and in Stanford ( falling to top seed and defending champion Kim Clijsters ).