1996 - Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in Spain.
1997 - Won two singles titles on ITF Circuit.
1998 - Won three singles titles and one doubles title (w/Clijsters) on ITF Circuit; began season unranked but finished No.226.
1999 - Turned pro on January 1; won title in first Tour event played at Antwerp (as No.178 WC, d. Pitkowski in final); QF twice, at Luxembourg and Québec City; reached 2r twice, incl.
Roland Garros (in Grand Slam main draw debut; l. to Davenport 63 26 75); fell 1r twice (incl.
US Open); won one singles title on ITF Circuit.
2000 - QF three times, at Hobart, Palermo and Bratislava; reached first Grand Slam 4r at
US Open (l. to Davenport); made Top 50 debut afterwards; reached 2r eight times (incl.
Australian Open); fell 1r once (
Wimbledon); withdrew from Antwerp and
Roland Garros w/arm injury and from Québec City w/metatarsalgia in right foot (suffered in Filderstadt); won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit.
2001 - First Top 10 season; won first three Tour singles titles at Gold Coast (d. Farina Elia in final), Canberra (d. Testud in final) and 's-Hertogenbosch (d. Clijsters in final); reached first Grand Slam SF at
Roland Garros (l. to Clijsters 26 75 63; led 62 42) and first Grand Slam final at
Wimbledon (l. to V.Williams), runner-up twice more, at Hawaii (ret. vs. Testud in final) and Filderstadt (l. to Davenport in final); reached QF at Tour Championships (l. to S.Williams); began season ranked No.45 and finished at No.7.
2002 - Second Top 10 season; won two Tour singles titles, at Berlin (d. S.Williams in final) and Linz (d. Stevenson in final); runner-up four times, at Gold Coast, Antwerp, Amelia Island (l. to V.Williams in all three finals) and Rome (l. to S.Williams in final); reached QF at Tour Championships (l. to Clijsters); won lone two Tour doubles titles to date at Gold Coast (w/Shaughnessy) and Zürich (w/Bovina).
2003 - First No.1 season, winning 75 matches, eight titles and $3,667,430 (second to Clijsters in all three); SF or better in 18 of 19 events played (exception was QF at Miami); won first two Grand Slam titles at
Roland Garros (d. S.Williams 62 46 75 in SF, having trailed 4-2 third set; d. Clijsters in final) and
US Open (d. Capriati 46 75 76(4) in SF where she was 10 times two points from losing, down 5-3 in second set and 5-2 in third set; 19 hours later, d. Clijsters in final); other six titles came at Dubai (d. Seles 46 76(4) 75 in final; saved mp at 64 54 down), Charleston (d. S.Williams in final), Berlin (d. Clijsters 64 46 75 in final; saved 3mp down 5-4 third set), San Diego (d. Clijsters in final), Toronto (d. Krasnoroutskaya in final) and Zürich (d. Dokic in final); runner-up three times, at 's-Hertogenbosch (ret. vs. Clijsters in final w/left wrist and finger sprain), Leipzig (l. to Myskina in final, ending season-best 22-match win streak) and Filderstadt (l. to Clijsters in final); reached SF at Tour Championships (l. to Mauresmo); began year at No.5, moved to No. 4 after
Australian Open, to No.3 after
Roland Garros, to No.2 after
US Open and finally No.1 after winning Zürich (October 20).
2004 - Historic start to season marred by illness; began year winning Sydney (d. Mauresmo in final) and
Australian Open (d. Clijsters in final); withdrew from Antwerp w/respiratory illness, then won Dubai (d. Kuznetsova in final); at Doha, 16-match win streak snapped in SF to Kuznetsova, her first loss of season; won Indian Wells (d. Davenport in final); at Amelia Island, lost in SF to Mauresmo 67(4) 75 63 (led 5-2 second set; stated she felt weak during loss); withdrew from Charleston w/hypoglycemia and from Berlin and Rome w/cytomegalovirus; attempted to defend
Roland Garros title but lost 2r (l. to Garbin; earliest exit for
Roland Garros No.1 seed since seedings introduced in 1925); withdrew from 's-Hertogenbosch and
Wimbledon to recover from condition; still suffering from cytomegalovirus, withdrew from San Diego and Montréal; played for first time since May at Olympics (d. Mauresmo in final for gold medal); fell 4r at
US Open (l. to Petrova) and on September 13 rankings dropped to No.4, ending 45-week reign at No.1; withdrew from Filderstadt, Zürich and Tour Championships w/cytomegalovirus.
2005 - Incredible return to Tour in spring following illness-plagued 2004 and injury-plagued beginning of 2005, highlighted by perfect clay court season, including
Roland Garros title; after withdrawing from Sydney,
Australian Open, Doha and Dubai w/right knee injury suffered in practice in December, made season debut (after seven-month lay-off) in March at Miami, reaching QF (l. to Sharapova in 3s, having trailed 61 41, saving mp in second set); then went on season-best 24-match streak on clay, winning four titles, at Charleston (d. Dementieva in final), Warsaw (d. Kuznetsova in final), Berlin (d. Petrova in final) and
Roland Garros (saved 2mp in third set of 76(6) 46 75 win over Kuznetsova in 4r then d. Pierce in final); was second
Roland Garros champion in Open Era to save mp en route (after Myskina, who saved mp vs. Kuznetsova in 4r in 2004); only fourth woman to have unbeaten run on clay that ended in
Roland Garros title, after Evert (1974-75), Graf (1987), Seles (1990); afterwards, returned to Top 10 (at No.7), first time since January; after withdrawing from Eastbourne w/right hamstring strain, became first reigning
Roland Garros winner to lose 1r at
Wimbledon (to Daniilidou); on July 25, returned to Top 5 (at No.5) for first time since October 2004; after withdrawing from San Diego w/right hamstring injury, made summer hardcourt debut at Toronto (l. to Clijsters in final); at
US Open, l. in 4r to Pierce; after withdrawing from Luxembourg w/right hamstring strain, played only match of fall at Filderstadt (l. opener to Pennetta), then withdrew from Zürich, Linz and Tour Championships w/right hamstring strain; ended season ranked No.6, her fifth consecutive Top 10 finish.
2006 - Second No.1 season; won second straight
Roland Garros title (d. Kuznetsova in final to become first player to win without dropping a set since Sánchez-Vicario in 1994) and first Tour Championships title (went 2-1 in RR to qualify for SF, falling to Mauresmo; d. Sharapova in SF to secure year-end No.1 ranking then d. Mauresmo in final); on November 13 year-end rankings rose from No.3 to No.1, her first time on top since 2004
US Open fortnight; runner-up at
Australian Open (ret. vs. Mauresmo in final w/GI illness trailing 61 20, only second time in Open Era a player has ret. in a major final),
Wimbledon (l. to Mauresmo 26 63 64 in final) and
US Open (l. to Sharapova in final); was seventh in Open Era to reach all four Grand Slam finals in one year, and first since Hingis (1997); was also first player since Graf (1993) to reach finals at all four Grand Slams plus Tour Championships; won four more titles, at Sydney (d. Schiavone 46 75 75 in final; trailed 4-1 second set and 5-3 third set), Dubai (d. Sharapova in final), Eastbourne (d. Myskina in final), New Haven (won when Davenport ret. down 60 10 in final w/right shoulder strain); also runner-up at Berlin (l. to Petrova); having begun year at No.6, returned to No.5 on January 30 (after
Australian Open), to No.4 and No.3 on February 27 and March 6 (shortly after Dubai), to No.2 on August 28 (after New Haven), and to No.1 on November 13 (year-end); 60 wins tied her for most of season (w/Kuznetsova); was also only player in Tour history to earn $2 million heading into
Wimbledon; member of Belgian Fed Cup team that d. Russia in World Group 1r but l. to Italy in final (d. Pennetta, Schiavone in singles rubbers; w/Flipkens, ret. in doubles rubber vs. Schiavone/Vinci w/right knee injury); withdrew from Warsaw w/back injury and from San Diego, Montréal, Stuttgart and Zürich w/right knee injury.
2007 - Second straight No.1 season (third overall), winning 10 of 14 events played and becoming first in Tour history to win over $5 million in a season (since surpassed by S.Williams' 2009 earnings); 10 titles included sixth and seventh Grand Slam titles at
Roland Garros (d. Ivanovic 61 62 in final; second player to claim three straight titles there in Open Era after Seles, who did so from 1990 to 1992) and
US Open (d. Kuznetsova 61 63 in final; d. S.Williams in QF and V.Williams in SF, first player to d. both Williams sisters in same Grand Slam and go on to win title, and just second after Hingis to d. both at a Grand Slam at all); one of 10 women to win seven or more Grand Slam singles titles in Open Era (also King, Court, Goolagong, Navratilova, Evert, Graf, S.Williams, V.Williams); other eight titles came at Dubai (d. Mauresmo in final), Doha (d. Kuznetsova in final; saved mp down 5-4 third set of QF win over Schnyder), Warsaw (d. A.Bondarenko in final), Eastbourne (d. Mauresmo 75 67(4) 76(2) in final; trailed 4-2 and 5-3 third set), Toronto (d. Jankovic in final), Stuttgart (d. Golovin in final), Zürich (d. Golovin in final) and Tour Championships (went 3-0 in RR; d. Ivanovic in SF then d. Sharapova in final); 10 titles was first double-digit season tally since Hingis' 12 in 1997; 5-0 record at Tour Championships improved Henin's win streak to 25 matches, a personal best and the longest on Tour since V.Williams' 35 in 2000; four losses in phenomenal 63-4 record (a .940 winning percentage - highest since Graf's .977 season in 1989) came at Paris [Indoors] (in first event of year after missing entire Australian swing w/personal reasons; l. to Safarova 76(5) 64 in SF, holding 3sp in first set and 4-2 second set lead), Miami (l. to S.Williams 06 75 63 in final; held 2mp at 60 54), Berlin (l. to Kuznetsova 64 57 64 in SF; had completed QF win earlier in day) and
Wimbledon (l. to Bartoli 16 75 61 in SF; led 61 53); no pre-SF losses all season; spent all but seven weeks of the season ranked No.1 (lost it to Sharapova for seven weeks after
Australian Open but regained it at Miami); became first woman to pass $5 million in season earnings ($5,429,586), passing previous all-time record holder Clijsters' $4,466,345 total from 2003; aside from Sydney and
Australian Open (personal reasons), also withdrew from Charleston w/asthmatic bronchitis, San Diego w/right wrist injury, Beijing w/respiratory infection and Moscow w/right shoulder injury.
2008 - Went 16-4 from January to May, winning 40th and 41st Tour singles titles at Sydney (d. Kuznetsova 46 62 64 in final; trailed 3-0 third set) and Antwerp (d. Knapp in final; 10th final in a row won); QF three times, at
Australian Open (l. to Sharapova, ending 32-match win streak), Dubai (l. to Schiavone) and Miami (l. to S.Williams 62 60; most lopsided loss for a reigning world No.1 since Hingis l. to Dokic in 1999
Wimbledon 1r by same score); withdrew from Charleston w/right knee injury; reached 3r at Berlin (l. to Safina in 3s); withdrew from Rome w/fatigue then announced immediate retirement from Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on May 14 (was first player ever to retire while holding world No.1 ranking).
2009 - Did not play; in September, announced full comeback to Tour, to commence at beginning of 2010.
