Did you know that Kim Clijsters in 2001 became the first person from Belgium to reach a Grand Slam singles final in the Open Era?
Did you know that Kim Clijsters in 2003 became not only the first Belgian—man or woman—to be ranked World No. 1, but also did so without winning a Grand Slam tournament?
Did you know that Clijster compiled a 90–12 singles record?
Did you know that Clijster singles win total was the highest single-season total by any woman since Navratilova in 1982?[227]
Did you know that Kim Clijsters was the first woman to play more than 100 singles matches in a year since Chris Evert in 1974?[227]
Did you know that in 2005 Clijster became only the second player (the first being Steffi Graf in 1995 and 1996) to win the Pacific Life Open–NASDAQ-100 Open double. En route to the Key Biscayne victory?
Did you know that in 2005 Clijster victory in the US Open Series she collected $2.2 million in prize money?
Did you know that in 2005 Kim Clijsters holds the largest single purse ever won by a female athlete?
Did you know that in 2005 Clijster to date holds a North American hardcourt win-loss record of 36–1?
Did you know that in 2005 Clijster had a 22-match winning streak from August to October, during the streak, she won tournaments in Los Angeles, Toronto and Luxembourg, and the US Open?
Did you know that in 2005 Kim Clijster became the first player ever to win the WTA Player of the Year Award in the same year of winning the WTA Come Back Player of the Year trophy?
Did you know that in 2006 Clijster returned to the World No. 1 ranking after the Australian Open in January?
Did you know that in 2005 Kim Clijster broke a rankings record, she was ranked as low as 134 in the World in March 2005, so her return to the top spot in a ten-month span was the fastest and biggest leap in women's tennis history?
Did you know that in 2009 Clijster was the third unseeded and first unranked female champion of a Grand Slam title by winning the 2009 US Open?
Did you know that in 2009 Clijster won the WTA Come Back Player of the Year trophy despite only playing three months effectively?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster was the first woman to retain the US Open title since Venus Williams in 2001?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster is the third woman to win two Grand Slams as a mother, one shy of the record by Margaret Court?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster rpeated her feat from 2005 of earning a women's sport record paycheck of approximately $2.2 million in US earning by winning the US Open, after ending the US Open Series as second after Caroline Wozniacki?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster broke the $20 million US mark in career prize money?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster became WTA year prize money leader with more than $5 million in US earnings?
Did you know that in 2010 Clijster became most time winner of the Karen Krantzcke WTA award for fair play (7)
Did you know that in 2011 Clijster equalling the record of Margaret Court of winning three Grand Slams as a mother
Did you know that in 2011 Clijster won $2.2 million in US earning, for the third time a women's sport record paycheck by winning the Australian Open?
Did you know that in 2011 Clijster became number 1 in the WTA rankings for the fourth time in her career on 14 February 2011 after the 2011 Open GDF Suez in Paris, nearly five years after being at the #1 spot in early 2006?
Did you know that in 2011it is also the first time Clijsters is number one in the same calendar year of winning a Grand Slam?
Did you know that in 2011 Clijster became the first mother to hold the number 1 ranking since the inception of the computer rankings in 1975?
Did you know that in Clijster was ranked 16 on the Time Top 100 list of most influential people, the first sports person on the 2011 listing?
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