10 Reasons why Kim Clijsters Will Win the US Open

The reasons why Kim Clijsters will win the 2010 US Open title are abundant.

Perhaps the better question would be why she wouldn’t win the title; but I’ll leave that rumination for the second piece of a matching set of articles on the ultimate match: Why Zvonareva could win the title?

Where Mama Kimie is concerned, here are the ten reasons why she will win the title.

1. Kim Clijsters is the defending US Open champion,
2. She’s won two straight US Open titles - 2005 (before retirement) and 2009 (third tournament upon reversing retirement),
3. She’s on a 20-match winning streak at Flushing Meadows,
4. She has a 5-2 head-to-head edge over Zvonereva lifetime,
5. She has a home-like edge at the tournament; not only is she married to an American son but the American public loves her and has taken her as one of their own,
6. She's enjoying a great season and has won three titles, all of which were hard court titles,
7. She's 13-1 on the American hard courts, including a title in Cincinnati,
8. She finished second in the Olympus US Open series which means she stands to win bonus prize money; loads of it,
9. She’s had a tougher path into the final, beating Stosur and Venus Williams in the last two rounds,
10. All and sundry, wants her to win – including the tennis gods,

With all of these reasons in tow, there’s no reason why Clijsters isn’t a solid bet for this year’s US Open Champion.