By Justin Worsley,
Belgian women's tennis player Justine Henin has announce her retirement from tennis on Wednesday for the second time.
Henin, 28, initially retired in 2008 as the no. 1 ranked player in the world just before the French Open, where she was a favorite to win her fourth consecutive title.
Her retirement was brief, however, and she found herself back on the court in 2010. She came crashing back into the women's rankings, knocking off Nadia Petrova, Sesil Karatantcheva, Melinda Czink and Ana Ivanovic in the Brisbane International before falling in the finals to fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters.
Her retirement comes just five days after losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round of the Australian Open. Henin injured her right elbow during the Wimbledon Championships last June and never fully recovered from the injury.
"After my crash at Wimbledon in June, I knew it would be difficult to come back," Henin said in a statement on her website. "...my elbow is too fragile and hurt so that my passion and my profession at a high level cannot continue to exist."
Henin has won seven Grand Slam titles as well as a gold medal in the 2004 Olympics.
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