Four-time Grand Slam winner Kim Clijsters on Sunday announced that she will return after seven years in retirement at the WTA tournament in Dubai starting on February 17.
The 36-year-old former number one, who hung up her racquet after the 2012 US Open, said: “I am so thrilled to be returning to the court.
“I’m impatient to resume this sport which I love, in front of the fans.”
Clijsters had originally planned to make her return at last month’s Australian Open.
A knee issue scuppered that plan, with Mexico in March then proposed as an alternative, before she accepted an invitation from the Dubai organisers.