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Former world number one Kim Clijsters who retired for the second time in 2012 but returned to action in February 2020, went down 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 to the Czech Katarina Siniakova at Indian Wells which dropped her to 0-5 since coming back to the tour. Clijsters fell behind 3-0 in the first set as she struggled to find a rhythm with her serve at the start but turned tables in the second, pounding winners to the delight of the supportive crowd on an overcast day in the Southern California desert.
Clijsters had knee surgery in October 2020 and returned to the court at last week`s Chicago Fall Tennis Classic, where she lost in the first round to Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei.
