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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Justine Henin has been granted a wild card entry to the Australian Open in what she is targeting as her comeback to Grand Slam tennis.
Henin, who won the 2004 Australian Open among her seven major singles titles, announced last month she was returning to the women's tour after more than a year in retirement.
The Australian Open has up to 12 wild cards to issue in each of the men's and women's 128-player draws.
Henin will not have a protected ranking when she returns to the tour and so will need to get wild card entries or enter qualifying to get places in the main draw. She announced her comeback soon after fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters won the U.S. Open, only three tournaments into her own comeback from retirement.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/tennis/2009/10/12/australian_open_henin/
That's awesome. I can't wait to see her in action. She was the only female player (besides Golovin, because of other obvious reasons) I liked to watch.