Kim Clijsters, Belgium's former top-ranked player, is expected to announce her return to professional tennis at a news conference Thursday in Bree, Belgium, her hometown. Her plans will probably include requesting a wild card to the United States Open.Clijsters, 25, stirred talk of a comeback by agreeing to play in a World Team Tennis event this summer and in an exhibition with Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi and Tim Henman at Wimbledon in May.
United States Tennis Association officials said that they had not received a formal request for a wild card into the Open from Clijsters, but that she would probably be granted one.
Clijsters, who reached No. 1 in 2003, won the Open in 2005, her only Grand Slam title. Twenty-three of her 34 pro singles titles have come on hardcourts.
Clijsters retired in May 2007, citing injuries and the desire to start a family. She married the American basketball player Brian Lynch that July; their daughter, Jada Ellie, was born in February 2008.
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