Clijsters: Olympics too big an event for farewell

Belgium's world number two Kim Clijsters on Monday shot down talk of retiring after next year's London Olympics and said she would rather have a much lower-key farewell. The four-times grand slam winner, who returns to action at this week's Rogers Cup in Toronto after missing Wimbledon with a foot injury, said the Olympics were the last big event she is focused on. "I am not saying I am done after the Olympics but that's where so far I have set my schedule towards and what I am building towards and then we'll see what happens from there," Clijsters, 28, told reporters. "I might choose to end [my career] in a smaller tournament just to have it a little more personal and where I can really enjoy it with my family, my friends and coaches," she added. Clijsters said it was too soon to determine what tournament would be her last but the three-times US Open winner did say she felt a special connection to Flushing Meadows, where she won the first three grand slams of her career. "I have done so well there for many years, my husband's family is there and we could have a very personal tournament there besides all the craziness... we will have when we go to the Olympics," said Clijsters. The popular Clijsters, who triumphed at the 2009 US Open, three tournaments into a comeback from a two-year retirement in which she gave birth to a daughter, said she was fully recovered from the injury that kept her out of Wimbledon.