Clijsters on road to #1
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ByEurosport
Published 02/10/2005 at 17:44 GMT
Playing her 15th tournament of the season, Kim Clijsters captured her eighth crown with the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday. The U.S. Open champion stormed past Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany 6-2 6-4, to equal her best title haul for a year, in 2003 when
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"This was the first tournament that I ever won and that's why it's so nice to be back here for my first tournament after my U.S. Open win," said the champion afterwards.
Clijsters did not drop a set all tournament and was only really tested in her quarter-final victory against Italy's Francesca Schiavone.
It was the Belgian's fifth win in Luxembourg and 29th title overall and maintained her perfect record in finals this year.
It was a second final defeat in succession for Groenefeld who lost to Russia's Maria Kirilenko in Beijing last weekend.
Groenefeld lost her first three service games and although she managed to break Clijsters once in the first set, she was well beaten.
She managed two more breaks in the second set but her major problem was always holding on to her own serve and she was broken three more times as Clijsters wrapped up victory in a little over an hour.
Clijsters won her first title in Luxembourg in 1999 and then added three in a row from 2001-2003 before missing last year's event with a wrist injury.
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