#3 Lleyton Hewitt – Kim Clijsters
Hewitt and Clijsters were 2 of the leading tennis players in the world in the 2000s and were subject to much media scrutiny when it came to be known that they were in a relationship. The Belgian met Hewitt during the Australian Open in 2000 when Kim's sister, Elke, asked her to get Hewitt's autograph.
Subsequently, Kim’s and Hewitt’s relationship blossomed. She was even known as ‘Aussie Kim’ among the Australian public during the period.
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They were famously engaged after a romantic boat trip around Sydney Harbour in December 2004 but the much talked about wedding would never come to fruition. Differences in the planning for the wedding between Kim Clijsters and her to-be in-laws were cited as the reason the two former world number one tennis players split.