Former world women's tennis number one Kim Clijsters continued her impressive grand slam comeback with a 3 set victory over French 14th seed Marion Bartoli in the second round of the U.S. Open in New York.
The Belgian, in just her third event since returning to the tour after two years away, hit back superbly to romp through the second and third sets for victory in just under 2 hours.
Clijsters had beaten Bartoli in the first match of her comeback last month but the former Wimbledon runner-up took the attack to the Belgian and snatched the first set.
But Clijsters, who gave birth to her first child just 18 months ago, wore down her opponent with relentless groundstrokes to set up a clash with another Belgian, Kirsten Flipkens.
Other women's seeds to be beaten today were number 12 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, number 17 Amelie Mauresmo of France and number 20 Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain.
