Clijsters Family Life

She is the daughter of a succesful soccer player, Lei Clijsters.

She announced her engagement to long-time partner Australian player Lleyton Hewitt in November 2003, but they split up in October 2004.

She also has a younger sister named Elke, who like her sister was an accomplished junior player, and who finished 2002 as the ITF World Junior Doubles champion, but back injuries forced Elke to retire from her professional tennis career in 2004.

In 2000 she began dating Australian tennis ace Lleyton Hewitt; they became engaged in 2003 but split in 2004... Her younger sister Elke Clijsters (b. 1985) also plays competitive tennis... Her father Leo (also called Lei) is a former soccer star who was named Belgium's player of the year in 1988... According to the WTA, her name is pronounced KLEYE-sters.