IAt the second round of the tournamet at Leipzig, Jelena will face a player she has already played against at the age of 14: Kim Clijsters

There is hardly any girl on the tour Jelena knows better and likes more as Kim Clijsters. Especially off court. Together they won the title of the French Open juniors (picture) and another junior doubles tournament which is called  Torneo Int`l Giovahlic Citta Di Prato, which sounds italian to me, but i have never heard about that toury, before. They also won the doubles title of Los Angeles last year!

But the two "Fila girls" do not only know eachother from playing with eachother. They have also played against eachother several times. Jelena leads Kim at junior matches 3-1, a record what Kim will never be able to change (he he), and Kim leads Jelena 5-1 in matches played in the last three years, since both turned 18 (Jelena is a few weeks older as Kim). Unforgettable will probably always be their semi-final of Hamburg in 2002 where the Belgium won over Jelena Dokic, who first fought herself back into the match after loosing the first set, and captured a 4-1 lead in set 2 as her leg problems started. Jelena couldn`t hardly move anymore, tried to hit only aces and return-winners from then on, and still kept playing though the therapist had already told her to stop. Jelena was finally crying her beautiful eyes out, as she had to retire at 4-4 in set two, but got the biggest applause of the audience i have ever heared when she left the court, accompanied by her friend Kimmy.

Both players stormed into the top of the world as teenagers, Jelena always one step ahead of the belgium waffle, like Kim is called, and it seemed that nothing could stop their run to the no.1 of the world. But whilst Jelena finally got stopped when being no.4 by not being able to handle her difficult private situation anymore, and dropped to position 26 now, Kim managed to reach their biggest goal of their lifes: Becoming number 1 of the tennis world!

To do so she has won 6 tournaments only this year and reached the amazing ammount of 13 finals! And two of those were Grand Slams!

But the match is not lost for Jelena before it even started, because at 5 of their 6 meetings as WTA-players the lower ranked player won the match, and Jelena was down 5-1 to Conchita Martinez also, but was able to win the next 4 matches against her! And finally it will be Kims first match on surpreme-court for more than 6 months, as she had a first round bye, whilst Jelena has already won her opening match vs. Kostanic.

Ok, maybe that was not really convincing everybody, but at least i show some hope, and Jelena should do the same! Jelena will have a huge advantage compared to every other girl on the tour who has to play Kim Clijsters. Jelena will not play the number one! Jelena will play her friend Kimmy! She can go out, enjoy herself, hit some of her unbelievable winners, and ..... well, lets see what happens :-)