Tennis: Back Again!

It wasn't too long that Kim Clijsters retired from Tennis, with Justine Henin following her not too long after that. At that point, with the next best player, Kirsten Flipkens, being ranked a hundred-something, I thought it'd be a long time before we'd see Belgian women's tennis reappear. Certainly I didn't think we'd be hopeful this year already.

As such, I'm delighted to be able to say that not only is Kim Clijsters making a smashing come-back—already beating Venus Williams, ranked 3rd on the WTA lists, at the US open, and only a few months after her returning to tennis at that—but Yanina Wickmayer, ranked 50-something on the WTA lists by now, has managed to reach the last 16 players. With Kirsten besting her career record by reaching the 3rd round of the US Open (before being ousted by Kim, no less), I feel the future of Belgian Women's tennis is looking very bright indeed.

Perhaps I should think about getting that cable subscription, so I can actually watch the matches.