The #1 Ranked Women's Tennis Player Since 2003

Justine Henin has won three of professional tennis's four Grand Slam tournaments, and has been the #1-ranked women's tennis player in the world several times since 2003. She won her first WTA Tour event as a pro, at Antwerp in 1999, becoming only the fifth person ever to win her WTA debut.

Her breakout year was 2001, when she made the semifinals of the French Open (losing to fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters) and then the singles finals at Wimbledon (losing to Venus Williams). By the end of that year she was ranked #7 in the world and was a sports hero in her home country.

In 2003 she began a stirring rivalry with Clijsters in Grand Slam tournaments: she defeated Clijsters in the finals of the 2003 French Open and the 2003 U.S. Open, and then again in the finals of the 2004 Australian Open. She also won the French Open three straight years, from 2005-2007, and won the U.S. Open in 2007. According to her WTA profile, Henin is 5 feet, 5 3/4 inches (1.67 meters) tall... Henin has never won at Wimbledon, but was a finalist there in 2001 and 2006. In 2006 she was a finalist in all four Grand Slam tournaments, winning the French Open and losing in the other three finals.

Henin married Pierre-Yves Hardenne on 16 November 2002. The couple separated in January of 2007, with Henin saying on her website, "I must announce to you that Pierre-Yves and I have decided to separate; the reasons are personal." During their marriage, Henin was known professionally as Justine Henin-Hardenne, but after the separation she changed her name back to Justine Henin.