MELBOURNE: U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters slumped out of the season’s first major in a shocking 6-0, 6-1 loss to No. 19-seeded Nadia Petrova on Friday.
Clijsters, who won the U.S. Open in September in only her third tournament back from two years off to get married and have a baby, seemed distracted as she won only five points in an 18-minute first set in her third-round match at the Australian Open.
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