15 Aug 2009

Clijsters bows out

12:25 pm on 15 August 2009

Kim Clijsters' dream return to tennis after two years out is over.

The Belgium former world number one lost in straight sets to the number one seeded Russian Dinara Safina in the quarter-finals at the Cincinnati Open.

Safina next meets the 14th seeded Italian, Flavia Pennetta, who beat unseeded Slovak Daniela Hantuchova 6-3 6-3.

The fourth seeded Russian, Elena Dementieva, beat the eighth-seeded Dane Caroline Wozniacki 6-2 6-1 to progress to the semi-finals.