DENNIS PASSA
AP Sports Writer
MELBOURNE, Australia – The much-anticipated quarterfinal between the back-from-retirement Belgians dissolved in 52 minutes on Friday at the Australian Open.
That’s the time it took for Kim Clijsters to lose, in embarrassing fashion, her third-round match at the season’s first Grand Slam tournament.
The 6-0, 6-1 defeat to Nadia Petrova was the worst of Clijsters’ career and as one-sided as the score indicated. Clijsters lost the first set in just 18 minutes and won only five points in her first seven games.