Two-Time Champion Kim Clijsters Withdraws From U.S. Open Tennis
Kim Clijsters has withdrawn from this month’s U.S. Open, which she won in 2009 and 2010, due to a strained stomach muscle, the United States Tennis 
Association said today in an e-mailed release.
Clijsters, who also won the tournament in 2005, pulled out of the Rogers Cup in Toronto last week because of the injury, according to her website. She won the Australian Open in January and missed Wimbledon with an ankle injury.
Clijsters, 28, said in the USTA’s statement that “two weeks of rehab was not enough to heal this injury.” The Belgian is ranked No. 3 on the WTA Tour.
“Now there is nothing else I can do than to rest and have treatment every day,” Clijsters said in the statement. “If a gradual approach is not taken, I will relapse in the same injury.”
The U.S. Open, the final Grand Slam on the annual tennis schedule, runs Aug. 29-Sept. 11 at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York. The tournament carries a $1.8 million purse for the men’s and women’s singles champions.
“We wish her a full and speedy recovery and look forward to her return to New York next year,” U.S. Open director Jim Curley said in the release.
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