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Seven years after retiring from tennis a
second time, Kim Clijsters is attempt-
ing another comeback at age 36.
The former No. 1 and four-time
major champion announced Thursday
she is planning to return to the pro
tour in 2020, although she’s not yet
ready to say exactly when or where or
how often she will compete.
“My goal right now ... is to be able to
get fit enough, and ready tennis-wise,
to compete at the highest level, said
Clijsters, who was inducted to the In-
ternational Tennis Hall of Fame in 2017.
“That to me would be my challenge,
as of right now. And if you get to that
stage, then you push yourself, and

then it might be like, ‘Hmm, let’s see if

I can get, I don’t know, to the second

week of a Grand Slam.’ I’ll constantly

push myself, I think, if I feel that I’m

getting better and improving,” she

said.

“But it’s very hard for me to think

about right now, and very unrealistic at

this stage, to think, ‘I want to try and

get to a quarter-final of a Grand Slam,“’

she said. “I don’t think like that, be-

cause I’m in the moment, and I know

how much work I still have ahead.”

Clijsters turned pro in 1997, won the

U.S. Open for the first time in 2005 and

walked away from tennis in 2007 at

just 23, shortly before getting married

to an American basketball player,

Brian Lynch.

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Caster Semenya is finally getting her

gold medal from the 2011 world cham-

pionships after Russian runner Maria

Savinova was stripped of the title for

doping.

But Semenya won’t attend a medal

reallocation ceremony at the coming

world championships in Qatar, South

Africa’s track federation said on Thurs-

day.

Semenya was barred from defending

her latest 800-metre world title in Doha

because she has refused to follow new

IAAF rules requiring her to medically

reduce her natural testosterone level to

be allowed to compete in certain races,

including her favourite event.

Instead, Athletics South Africa will

receive the medal from the world track

body on Semenya’s behalf in Doha and

decide on an appropriate event to hand

the medal to Semenya in South Africa, it

said.

The medal reallocation is happening

after the Court of Arbitration for Sport

in 2017 upheld Savinova’s doping ban,

nullifying her results from 2010 to 2013.

She was also stripped of her 2012 Olym-

pic gold in the 800 metres.

That title has also gone to Semenya,

who finished second in that race, too.

Semenya has two Olympic and three

world titles in the 800, but since July has

not been allowed to compete at top-lev-

el track meets in distances from 400

metres to one mile.

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