Clijsters, Henin among third-round winners at Wimbledon

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06/25/2010 - Wimbledon, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin were each third-round winners on Friday at Wimbledon and will meet next Monday in the round of 16 at the All England Club.

The eighth-seeded Clijsters rolled to a 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Russia's Maria Kirilenko, while the 17th-seeded Henin thumped another Russian, 12th-seeded Nadia Petrova, 6-1, 6-4.

Clijsters has dropped just 14 games in her first three matches of this fortnight. She is playing at Wimbledon for the first time since a semifinal appearance in 2006, as her comeback from a two-year layoff to start a family began last summer and resulted in a surprising U.S. Open title.

Henin, meanwhile, is in her comeback season after a nearly two-year hiatus. She retired in the spring of 2008 while sitting as the top-ranked player in women's tennis and is now trying to capture the only Grand Slam title that has eluded her.

In seven previous Wimbledon appearances, Henin has been a runner-up twice. She lost to Venus Williams in the 2001 final and fell to Amelie Mauresmo in the 2006 title match.

Clijsters and Henin have split 24 career meetings in a series that dates back to 1998. The two played twice earlier this year. Clijsters won a third-set tiebreaker in the final at the Australian Open tuneup in Brisbane and again prevailed in another third-set tiebreak in the semifinals at Miami.

Henin won the lone previous meeting at Wimbledon in the 2006 semifinals.

Other winners Friday included fourth-seeded Jelena Jankovic of Serbia and 11th-seeded Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. Jankovic blitzed Alona Bondarenko of the Ukraine, 6-0, 6-3, while Bartoli, the 2007 Wimbledon runner-up, eased past Hungary's Greta Arn, 6-3, 6-4.

Williams, the five-time champion and this year's second seed, will play later Friday against Russia's Alisa Kleybanova.

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