As promised, Women's Tennis Blog is continuing its tradition of revising on-court outfits from the season behind us. This year's retrospections will start with the best-dressed WTA player – Nike-clad Maria Sharapova.

Sharapova started the season late, because of her career-threatening shoulder injury, playing her first match of 2009 at the BNP Paribas Open in March. She was introducing herself to competitive tennis slowly, playing doubles first, but her style had to be spot-on from the very beginning, and it was.

People argued that Sharapova’s Roland Garros dress had too much fabric, but I liked it, and I especially favored the blue color against the red clay. Read more »

Who would have thought back in June that Kim Clijsters would win the 2009 US Open? Well, neither did her coach Wim Fissette when he said to Kim at the exhibition in Rosmalen: "If you win the US Open I'll shave my head." Kim won the bet, and her coach has lost his hair.

Look at Kim’s little daughter Jada with a soother at 2:40. I know I’m repeating this all the time, but she’s so cute.

Info: You should click through to watch this video on YouTube, because the administrators of Kim's profile have disabled embedding (don't ask me why).

Surprise US Open quarterfinalist Melanie Oudin made an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show to talk about her spectacular experience at the Grand Slam.

Among other things, Melanie was of course asked to give her opinion about the Serena Williams incident.

Interesting detail: The 17-year-old Melanie has a boyfriend and he’s 15. Hihi.

Magnificent 2009 US Open champion Kim Clijsters arrived at Brussels Airport and was welcomed by a crowd of people.

The world No.19 Clijsters was willing to sign some autographs and later thanked everyone via Twitter.

Arrived back home this morning, after three months! Its good to be home again! Thanks to all the fans for the welcome at the airport x

(source: Down the Line)

Newly-crowned US Open champion Kim Clijsters, who has from an unranked player amazingly propelled to No.19 in the rankings, showed off her trophy in New York’s Times Square, joined by husband Brian Lynch and super cute daughter Jada.

The former world No.1 Clijsters has never looked better, and why wouldn't she, her US Open triumph is highlighting the whole tennis season.

Just to mention: Kim’s fellow Belgian and great champion Justine Henin used her official website to congratulate Kim on this great success.

Dear Kim,

Congratulations with your magnificent victory.
Once again, Jada can be very proud of her mama. Your achievement is just fantastic! Warm applause to you and your whole family.

Best regards,
Justine

(photos via Down the Line)