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Defending champion Kim Clijsters dominated Ana Ivanovic in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, on Sunday to advance into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open. It took Clijsters just under an hour to dismiss the 2008 French Open Champion Ivanovic."The U.S. Open is a special tournament for me," Clijsters told the crowd in an on-court interview with CBS following her match.
Clijsters, who won the U.S. Open in 2005, briefly retired from the sport before returning last year to claim her second U.S. Open title in only her third tournament back. Clijsters has now won 18 straight matches at Flushing Meadows.
When asked if she felt invincible at the Open during her post-match press conference, she responded, "Yeah, not that I think about it, but I want to try and keep it going. I've always enjoyed playing here at the U.S. Open. I remember playing qualifying and playing Serena in 2001 or 2002 many years ago already."
Ivanovic unraveled Sunday after she was able to win a couple of early games in the opening set. "Today I was just a little bit, you know, slow. I think nerves crept in," Ivanovic said after the match.
"I was on the big stage again," the former No. 1 added. "I didn't have that feeling for a long time. You know, lots of kind of emotions came back, and I felt just a little slow and just a little bit, you know, out of it."
The Serb finished the match with 28 unforced errors and only won 37 percent of her service points in the match. Clijsters committed just 16 unforced errors and won 70 percent of her first-serve points in the contest. Clijsters won 70 total points in the match, compared to Ivanovic's 45.
"She played well," Ivanovic said of Clijsters. "I had my opportunities in the beginning that I didn't convert, so that was a little bit disappointing."
Clijsters is seeking to become the first back-to-back women's singles champion at Flushing Meadows since Venus Williams accomplished the feat in 2000 and '01. The Belgian was asked about how she copes with the pressure of being a defending champion at the U.S. Open.
"I guess when you're older ... and I having played obviously a lot of Grand Slams, you don't feel -- I mean, the pressure is a privilege. It's something that comes because you've done well in the past, and I look at it in that way."
The second-seeded Belgian moves into the quarterfinals for her sixth straight time at Flushing Meadows.
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