Ten things to know about Kirsten Flipkens

Flipkens thanked good friend and former world no.1 Kim Clijsters after her win over Kvitova in the quarter-finals. “She’s been there for me through the good and bad times. I have to thank her. Kim was one of the people last year still ­believing in me. The people who still believed in me, I could count them on one hand. I’m so, so happy. You cannot imagine. We’ve known each other from when we were six years old, I practice at her academy and our mums are very close friends. We’ve been texting all the time and she wanted to call me yesterday but we’re superstitious so we’re not going to speak on the phone until I’m out of the tournament.” Clijsters tweeted that Flipkens’ win on Tuesday left her in tears.