Kim Clijsters & Brian Lynch Welcome A Daughter
February 29th, 2008
Former U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters gave birth to a daughter Wednesday, nine months after retiring from tennis.
Kim and her husband, American basketball player Brian Lynch, named the baby Jada.
“The parents and the baby are in great shape,” spokesman Jeroen Jespers said.
Kim, 24, retired in May, saying a string of injuries had led to fatigue, a lack of motivation and a decline in play. She said she wanted to focus a new life with Brian, who plays in the Belgian league.
Kim was Belgium’s first tennis player to reach the No. 1 ranking, holding it for 19 weeks in 2003.
She won her only Grand Slam title at the 2005 U.S. Open, but Kim also won the 2002 and 2003 WTA Championships as part of her 34 career singles titles.
According to Kim’s web site, the baby, born at a hospital in Tongeren, weighed 6.69 pounds and measured 20.08 inches.
Below they were snapped leaving the hospital with Jada.
Congratulations!
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1. pat | February 29th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally a regular looking person having a baby and leaving the hospital like normal people do. Thank you for the pics, I like them and congrats to the couple and their new baby.
2. Gail | February 29th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Awww she looks so in love with the new arrival! too cute!
3. Meg | February 29th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
They do look very normal.
4. oriana | February 29th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Aww, yes, but she’s walking! Don’t they usually get wheeled on in a wheelchair?
5. mackenzie | February 29th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Congratulations
6. 2teens | February 29th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
They absolutely refuse to let anyone leave the hospital unless they get wheeled out (where I live)… even if you are perfectly healthy & capable of walking. Probably to cover their butts against a lawsuit if someone gets lightheaded & faints on their way out, which could easily happen after being medicated or sedated. i guess it’s different in Tongeren.
7. NG | March 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Where I live we don’t get wheeled out.
8. ashleigh | March 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 am
we dont get wheeled out in australia either