Elise Mertens leading next generation of Belgian tennis

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) When Elise Mertens was growing up in the medieval city of Leuven, Belgium, Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin were taking Belgian tennis to new heights. She remembers, back to when she was five, seeing Clijsters play for the first time – the year Clijsters made her first French Open final.

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