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Clijsters doubtful for French Open Kim Clijsters' status for the French Open is still in doubt as she recovers from ligament damage to her right knee. Clijsters, a two-time runner-up at Roland Garros, will travel to Paris this week for intensive training sessions to test her knee, which she hurt at the German Open earlier this month. The two-week major opens Monday. "As soon as I will feel any pain during training, I will stop," the Belgian said on her Web site Wednesday. "If everything goes according to plan, I will start the tournament, but I will not take any risk in a match." The former top-ranked player strained knee ligaments in Berlin while chasing down a ball against Patty Schnyder. She was forced to rest for eight days and resumed training Tuesday with her knee heavily wrapped. "I still cannot move freely about the court," she said. Clijsters, ranked 17th, already made one comeback from injury this year. After reaching the top ranking in 2003, Clijsters sat out most of 2004 after surgery on her left wrist and pulled out of the Australian Open in January. She returned after a 10-month layoff at the Indian Wells tournament in March and beat top-ranked Lindsay Davenport in the final. The next week, she won the Nasdaq-100 Open in Miami. Clijsters reached the French Open final in 2001, losing in three sets to Jennifer Capriati. Two years later, she lost to fellow Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne.
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