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EASTBOURNE, England: Four-time French Open queen
Justine Henin confessed Monday that she would not be devastated if
she never wins Wimbledon.
But the Belgian added that she
will making an aggressive run at the only Grand Slam title she is
lacking, beginning her preparation on grass this week at the
Eastbourne Championships.
“To win all four Grand Slams
would be a great achievement,” Henin said on Monday, little more
than a week after she beat Serb Ana Ivanovic in the Roland Garros
final.
“But I don’t know if it would
make me any more happy. But to somehow win Wimbledon would be
amazing, it would be another great adventure.”
Henin said she was still riding
the wave of emotion unleashed in Paris.
“I only arrived here last
night,” she said in the rainy English seaside town. “After a few
days, the emotions started to do down, you are still a bit tired,
but it was back to work last Tuesday.”
Henin said that she decided only
at the last minute to keep her date at Eastbourne, the prime WTA
tune-up for Wimbledon which begins in a week.
The defending champion won the
title here a year ago out of the box, but said that she had not been
sure about returning to defend in the wake of the Paris victory
earthquake.
“I’m still not fully
recovered but if I’m here, I’m here to play,” said the
25-year-old, who lost last year’s Wimbledon final to Amelie
Mauresmo. “I want to get a couple of matches here.”
Henin said she spent the
immediate days after her Paris trophy with her family, with whom she
has been slowly reuniting over the past half-year since splitting
with her husband at the start of 2007.
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