[KIM ] Clijsters Proclaimed ITF World Champion
December 20, 2005
Clijsters Proclaimed ITF World Champion
As if her most recent season wasn’t phenomenal enough, Kim Clijsters added
more impressive items to her 2005 resume on Monday, December 19, after being
named both 2005 ITF World Champion and Belgium’s Sportswoman of the Year.
Clijsters had arguably her best season to date in 2005, capturing nine Sony
Ericsson WTA Tour singles titles, including her career-first Grand Slam singles
title at the US Open and Tier I events at Indian Wells, Miami and Toronto
[Canadian Open]. The 22-year-old rebounded from a dismal, injury-plagued 2004,
and ended up finishing first in the Porsche Race to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour
Championships and No.2 in the year-end Tour Singles Rankings. She is the second
Belgian in three years to be named women’s ITF World Champion, following
Justine Henin-Hardenne, who earned the prestigious accolade in 2003.
She was voted Sportswoman of the Year in Belgium for the fifth time.
"Kim Clijsters’ US Open victory and overall consistency saw her come out on
top," said ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti.
The men’s ITF World Champion title went to Roger Federer; the men’s doubles
title went to Bob and Mike Bryan; and the women’s doubles title went to Lisa
Raymond and Samantha Stosur. Junior world champions were 16-year-old American
Donald Young and Belarussian teenager Victoria Azarenka.
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