Comeback easy for Clijsters, Henin

No wonder Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin headed back to tennis convinced they could get back into Grand Slam contention.

It didn't take Clijsters long, as she swept to victory in last year's US Open, and Henin will doubtless soon be back to her dominant best, despite her early defeat to Gisela Dulko in last week's BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, according to Mike Staniforth of Press Association Sport.
One look at the current movers and shakers at the top of the women's world rankings suggests that were it not for the timely comebacks of the Belgian pair, the game would be in a state of significant turmoil.
This week's new world number two, behind the conquer-at-will Serena Williams, is Caroline Wozniacki, a talented 19-year-old from Denmark who was on the receiving end of Clijsters' comeback win at Flushing Meadows.
Nobody would dare suggest Wozniacki is not a very good player. Yet aside from her US Open runner-up slot, she boasts six WTA Tour titles - none of which could by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as significant.
Wozniacki seems at pains to distance herself from her ascension to such lofty heights, perhaps mindful of the scorn heaped upon Dinara Safina last year for her long stay at world number one despite failing to break her Grand Slam duck.
Wozniacki said: "The ranking is just a bonus. I think I'm a great player and I've had a lot of good results. It's not easy to beat me. I just think I'm a fighter and I think the ranking speaks for itself."
Jelena Jankovic, who beat Wozniacki in the Indian Wells final, was once regarded one of the fresh new talents the game badly needed. But the Serb boasts one solitary Grand Slam runners-up slot and treads water in the lower reaches of the top 10.