It took less than an hour. Kim Clijsters returned to Grand Slam tennis with an efficient win over Vikoriya Kutuzova and advanced in the second round. The first round test was not taxing for the former US Open Champion:
“There may have been a few more nerves than normal but otherwise it was just like 2005 for Kim Clijsters as she announced her return to grand slam tennis in convincing fashion at the US Open. Four years after her lone grand slam triumph and more than two years since she hung up her racket to start a family, the Belgian crushed the hapless Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine 6-1, 6-1 in as one-sided a first-round match as you can get.”
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