[花絮]Clijsters breaks out in nappy rush
Clijsters breaks out in nappy rush
Having babies will come before career, Belgium's world number two tells Jon H
enderson
Sunday February 29, 2004
The Observer
Interviews with top sportsmen and women can be pretty intense, discussing how
far their competitive drive may take them. Kim Clijsters, the world's number
two tennis player, will go there if you want, but she is just as happy these
days talking about wedding dresses and having babies.
Clijsters, 20, who will marry Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 Wimbledon champion,
some time in the next 14 months, says that like her own mother she wants to
be a young mum: 'It's something I've been feeling pretty strongly about for
the past few months.' She says she intends to interrupt her tennis career -
maybe even end it - to start a family by the time she is 25.
She needs no coaxing to talk about such things. In fact she seems to enjoy
doing so as much as she likes discussing her outstanding career as a tennis
player, which brought her a twenty-first title in Antwerp last weekend and
has already grossed her $8.7 million in prize money.
'I have a very good relationship with my mum and she's really young and I
think that's something I would like to have with my kids as well,' she says
from her home in Bree in Belgium. 'You never know what's going to happen with
your career but what I'm thinking now is that I would like a kid before I'm
25.'
Have she and Hewitt, 23, who also won his twenty-first title in Rotterdam last
Sunday, decided how big a family they want? 'No, not at all. Let's see how the
first one goes, if I'm not scared with the delivery and everything. It's
something I do look forward to, though.'
The date and place of the wedding that will make them the first couple of
tennis after a three-year romance that seems to have grown stronger in an
environment that usually destroys relationships have not yet been fixed.
'We're right in the middle of arranging things now,' she says. 'We've been
looking at a few places in Australia and Belgium.' It is likely to take place
either at the end of this year or in April 2005 before the European clay-court
season.
Clijsters observes that it may not be much fun wearing a wedding dress in the
middle of a cold Belgian winter and moans a little about the paperwork involved
in an Australian and Belgian becoming husband and wife. 'But I'm sure that it
will be fun the moment I can start designing and doing stuff on my wedding
dress. That's what I'm looking forward to.'
Where they'll call home is also undecided. 'I go to Australia a lot at the end
of the year and I think that may be our base. But I've got a house here in
Belgium, too. So both. Belgium is still my home and when I go to Australia it
feels like a big holiday.'
Some might reckon that Clijsters' readiness to dwell on her life beyond tennis
provides evidence that she lacks the dedication to her sport that has left her
trailing Justine Henin-Hardenne, the other Belgian who has beaten Clijsters in
three grand slam finals.
Maybe, but you can have enough intense conversations with athletes about where
their competitive drive is taking them.
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