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Venus Williams defeats Clijsters

ANTWERP, Belgium, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- American Venus Williams succesively defended her title Sunday at the Proximus Diamond Games by beating Belgium's Kim Clijsters.

Williams, the top seed, did not lose a set in the indoor event and posted a 6-2, 6-4 victory to improve to 4-2 lifetime against the second-seeded Clijsters.

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Playing in only her second event of the year, Williams claimed her 28th career title on Sunday. She retired with a knee injury during the first set of her last meeting with Clijsters at the season-ending WTA Tour championships in Los Angeles.

Williams won $93,000 and is closer to taking home a diamond studded racket. She has to win this event twice more in the next four years to earn the golden racket encrusted with approximately 1,700 diamonds.

Clijsters beat Venus Williams and her sister, world No. 1 Serena, in successive matches to win the WTA Tour championships. But the 19-year-old Belgian squandered a huge chance last month at the Australian Open when she failed to convert two match points and a 5-1 lead in the third set in the semifinals against Serena, who went on to defeat Venus for win her fourth straight Grand Slam title.

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