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Elke Clijsters Country (sports) Belgium Residence Bree , BelgiumBorn (1985-01-18 ) 18 January 1985 (age 39 ) Bilzen , BelgiumTurned pro 2000 Retired 2004 Plays Right (two-handed backhand) Prize money $47,951 Career record 53–54 Career titles 1 ITF Highest ranking No. 389 (15 September 2003) Career record 52–23 Career titles 7 ITF Highest ranking No. 244 (6 October 2003)
Elke Clijsters (born 18 January 1985) is a former professional tennis player from Belgium.
Career
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Elke won the 2002 girls' Wimbledon Championships doubles title with Barbora Strýcová , and the girls' US Open doubles title with compatriot Kirsten Flipkens .[1] [2] Her highest singles ranking was 389, a ranking she achieved on 15 September 2003. She played in the Belgium Fed Cup team in 2002, 2003 and 2004, losing all four matches, of which one was a singles match. In 2004, she reached the finals of two ITF singles tournaments, winning the one in Bournemouth . In the same year, she also reached the finals of two ITF doubles tournaments, of which she also won one. She retired in 2004 due to a persistent back injury.[3]
In 2021, Clijsters participated in the Belgian version of The Bachelorette .[4]
Personal life
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Her father was the Belgian football player Lei Clijsters (1956–2009) and her sister is former world No. 1 tennis player, Kim Clijsters (born 1983). Elke married footballer Jelle Van Damme on 31 May 2008 in Bree, Belgium .[5] They had their first child in 2009, a boy.[6] She gave birth to their second child, a girl in November 2010. Their marriage ended in 2016.
ITF Circuit finals
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$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments
Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner-ups)
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Result
No.
Date
Tournament
Surface
Opponent
Score
Loss
1.
7 April 2003
ITF Torre del Greco, Italy
Clay
Raffaella Bindi
4–6, 2–6
Loss
2.
11 August 2003
ITF Koksijde, Belgium
Clay
Lenka Snajdrová
4–6, 2–6
Win
3.
1 May 2004
ITF Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Clay
Melanie South
3–,6 6–1, 6–2
Loss
4.
8 May 2004
ITF Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Clay
Ekaterina Kozhokina
1–6, 4–6
Doubles: 10 (7 titles, 3 runner-ups)
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Result
No.
Date
Tournament
Surface
Partner
Opponents
Score
Loss
1.
21 August 2000
ITF Westende, Belgium
Clay
Caroline Maes
Natasha Galouza Anouk Sterk
1–6, 0–6
Win
2.
3 September 2001
ITF Pétange, Luxembourg
Clay
Jaslyn Hewitt
Natallia Dziamidzenka Kika Hogendoorn
6–1, 6–3
Win
3.
5 August 2002
ITF Rebecq, Belgium
Clay
Jaslyn Hewitt
Leslie Butkiewicz Tessy van de Ven
3–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win
4.
3 November 2002
ITF Stockholm, Sweden
Hard (i )
Marta Domachowska
Jenny Loow Suzanne van Hartingsveldt
6–1, 6–1
Loss
5.
21 January 2003
ITF Hull, United Kingdom
Hard (i )
Borka Majstorović
Irina Bulykina Galina Voskoboeva
6–4, 6–7, 3–6
Win
6.
2 February 2003
ITF Tipton, United Kingdom
Hard (i )
Liana Ungur
Zuzana Černá Iveta Gerlová
6–3, 6–2
Win
7.
18 May 2003
ITF Casale Monferrato, Italy
Clay
Leanne Baker
Jolanda Mens Stefanie Weis
6–3, 6–4
Win
8.
11 August 2003
ITF Koksijde, Belgium
Clay
Kirsten Flipkens
Zuzana Černá Vladimíra Uhlířová
6–2, 6–4
Loss
9.
2 March 2004
ITF Buchen, Germany
Hard (i )
Caroline Maes
Lucie Hradecká Eva Hrdinová
1–6, 4–6
Win
10.
29 March 2004
ITF Napoli, Italy
Clay
Mandy Minella
Michelle Gerards Mariëlle Hoogland
6–1, 6–0
References
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^ Belga (15 June 2004). "Elke Clijsters met fin à sa carrière" . La Libre Belgique (in French). Retrieved 20 January 2013 .
^ Callens, Florian (5 May 2021). " 'De Bachelorette': Kim Clijsters geeft zus Elke laatste raad voor beslissende roosceremonie" . Newsmonkey (in Flemish). Retrieved 15 January 2022 .
^ "Elke en Jelle in alle stilte getrouwd" . Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). 2 June 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2013 .
^ "Zoontje voor Jelle Van Damme en Elke Clijsters" . De Standaard (in Dutch). 13 October 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2011 .
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