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Clijsters and Henin to meet in final in Brisbane

09:02 am on 9 January 2010

Former top tennis players Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters will meet in the women's final at the Brisbane International.

Henin, playing her first tournament since her shock retirement in 2008, crushed Serbia's Ana Ivanovic 6-3 6-2 in a little over an hour in their semi-final.

Then Clijsters, who won last year's U.S. Open after making her own fairytale comeback, demolished Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-4 6-2 in their semi final.

In the men's event, American Andy Roddick and Czech Tomas Berdych both won their quarter-finals to join holder Radek Stepanek and Gael Monfils in today's semi-finals.

Roddick sent down 16 aces in beating Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-3 7-6 after Berdych edged past Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci 7-6 2-6 7-6.