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Henin won 7 – 6, 7 – 5 after having been down 0 – 3 in the second set.
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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.
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.
Mauresmo won a silver medal in singles at the Olympic Games in Athens, where she was defeated by Belgian Justine Henin in the final.
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.
Had Henin won this match, she would have immediately replaced Clijsters as the World No. 1.
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.
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 won 6 – 3, 6 – 3.
Tipped as the tournament favorite, Henin won the first set.
Henin won both of her singles matches during the Fed Cup final against Italy in Charleroi, Belgium.
Henin then defeated Mauresmo and won the tournament for the first time in her career.
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 a highly anticipated quarterfinal match against Serena Williams, Henin won 6 – 4, 6 – 3.
Henin won the tournament without dropping a set and had not lost a set at this tournament since the 2005 French Open quarterfinals.
In August, Henin won the Tier I Rogers Cup in Toronto, defeating Janković in the final.
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.
In the final, Henin won her second US Open singles title, defeating Kuznetsova in straight sets, 6 – 1, 6 – 3.
Henin won the tournament without dropping a set.
Henin won her next tournament, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, defeating Tatiana Golovin in the final.
Two weeks later, Henin won the Zurich Open, her ninth title of the year, by again defeating Golovin in the final.
At the WTA Tour Championships, Henin won all three of her round robin matches, defeating Anna Chakvetadze, Janković, and Bartoli.
Going into the match against Bartoli, Henin had won 22 consecutive matches since Bartoli defeated her in the 2007 Wimbledon semifinals.
Henin won the match on her fifth match point in the final game of the match.
Henin and 7
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.
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 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.
In the semifinals, Henin lost to Amélie Mauresmo 7 – 6 ( 2 ), 3 – 6, 6 – 3.
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.
With her French Open victory, Henin moved from World No. 12 to World No. 7 in the women's singles rankings.
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.
Henin then helped Belgium defeat Austria 5 – 0 in a first round tie of the Fed Cup.
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