Photo by MATTHEW STOCKMAN / GETTY IMAGES NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Former world number one Kim Clijsters continued her stunning comeback to grand slam tennis as she outclassed fellow Belgian Kirsten Flipkens 6-0 6-2 on Friday to reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
The Belgian, back after two years off the tour, during which time she gave birth to her first child, needed just 62 minutes to book her place in the last 16.
The first set lasted just 27 minutes as 2005 champion Clijsters forced world number 93 Flipkens into a series of errors.
Flipkens led by a break at 2-1 in the second set but Clijsters ran through five successive games to set up a clash with either third seed Venus Williams or unseeded Slovakian Magdalena Rybarikova.
Wow, no wonder ESPN didn't even bother showing this match.
Can't even call it a match really more like a steam roll!. Good for Clijsters.
So it's going to be Kim and Venus head to head (as predicted).
I'm not impressed with Venus' game in the least so I'm going with Clijsters for the win.
She would most likely have to get past Serena to win the championship, but I'm really starting to believe she can do it.
And boy, would that make one hell of headline!.
Go Kim!.
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