
Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters plans to play on for a maximum two years following her remarkable run of success since returning to the tour in 2009 after taking time out to have a baby.
Clijsters, 27, has proved an almost unstoppable force at the majors after a 2-1/2 year maternity break, winning three of her four Grand Slam titles after the birth of her daughter Jada.
While many now hold her up as a torchbearer for working mothers -- at the 2009 US Open she became the first mum to win a Grand Slam for almost three decades -- Clijsters said she had worked out her retirement date based on family commitments
"There is no use worrying about what's in the past," she said. "Go out there and play my game, that's all I can control
"She is a great Fed Cup player," Wickmayer said. Mattek-Sands held on with grit alone and even took a 5-2 lead in the tiebreaker, but the Belgian No. 2 refused to let go.
It leaves the U.S. team with a mountain to climb and the distinct prospect of failing to reach the semifinals for the first time since 2004.
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