JUSTINE HENIN - The Most ARTISTIC Tennis Legend: June 2015

Happy Birthday to our Artistic Tennis Queen Justine! As usual, I have ordered this cake from google image to Justine, hope you like it:

And I'll post this video made by suhu san for Justine every 1st June:

Now comes all the news which I've not blogged about, sorry for the delays, this time round, I will post from the latest news to the oldest:

Ju had just posted on her official facebook page with beautiful photos of herself:

Ju's side view is always so charming, drools~

The room looks a little small and cramped

Here's one artistic shot of Ju...nope, not the tennis though

Is this another modelling session?

If I were there, I would want to take photos with Ju too!

All other news sources I've obtained from Justine Henin Media & News Updates from Facebook, so you can also read from there if this blog is like taking ages to update:

First of all, we know Justine is hired as a commentator in RG, so we get to see plenty of her beautiful photos there:

Ju and Nadal!!! The clay Queen and King

Ju and Djokovic!!!!

Ju looks lovely in here

And I love her little messy hair here, together with her smile, so cute!

Looks like RG is really popular in there, full of crowds!

Oh my lovely Justine next to that lovely burger, both are yummy and delicious to my eyes!

Ppl may mistaking Ju going for the cooking show

Our handsome Ju waiting for someone?

Ju looks super small in size next to that big guy, whoa!

Ju looking professionals among the professionals

I love her smile despite her frowning due to strong sunlight?

copy and paste Danielle's words "Here is a magnificent testimony of the Director of the Sports of France Télévision, he delivers us here his admiration for Justine as consultant... Very interesting!":

http://www.dhnet.be/sports/tennis/francois-brabant-j-ai-un-faible-pour-justine-556887fc35704bb01c8983ab

Here's one article on Juju saying RG is her garden, I'm sure we all agree on that:

http://www.francetvsport.fr/roland-garros/justine-henin-roland-garros-c-est-mon-jardin-280676

Some insights of Ju on Maria Sharapova:

http://www.francetvsport.fr/roland-garros/le-regard-de-henin-la-volonte-de-maria-sharapova-279772

Ju thinks that this could be Djokovic's year (video shown below, it's all in French and I don't think it's all about Djokovic but about other stuffs as well, but just listen to her sexy voice and her cute face will do):

http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1749/Roland-Garros/article/detail/2337695/2015/05/26/Justine-Henin-Ca-pourrait-bien-etre-l-annee-de-Djoko.dhtml

EXTRAIT - Justie Hénin, invité spéciale du... by Europe1fr

An interview of Justine regarding the favs of RG:

http://www.dhnet.be/sports/tennis/roland-garros-justine-henin-se-mouille-et-donne-ses-favoris-55645b723570fde9b36db22a

Translation of Danielle:

Roland Garros: Justine Henin gets wet and gives his as favorites

Belga Published on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 at 1:46 pm - Updated on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 at 2:16 pm

Tennis

The former quadruples prize-winner vote for...

Justine Henin makes his big return to Roland Garros this year. Rochefortoise, quadruples prize-winner on the hard-packed surface of the Door of Auteuil, put back its tailor of consultant for France Télévisions instead of Amélie Mauresmo, become a coach of Andy Murray and who will be a mom for the first time in August. " It could well be the year of Djokovic ", she confided.

Justine Henin is delighted to find the atmosphere felted by Roland Garros, the Grand Slam tournament which made its legend. Having exchanged the racket for the microphone today, she will live about fifteen in a clearly more relaxed way than in her nice time, but not without less passion.

She was grilled moreover already. We asked her to deliver her forecasts for this edition 2015, where Rafael Nadal could realize a historic exploit by standing out for the tenth time of his career!

" Djokovic is the odds-on favorite ", she estimated. " His game evolved and to have become it made by dad he brought more serenity. He left well to stand out finally. And I am curious to see the answer of Nadal ", added former world N.1, who looks forward to the quarterfinal which has to bring into conflict both men.

And of the feminine side? " I have to admit that I look more gladly at the tennis male than feminine. I have a big admiration for Serena Williams. She has to prove nothing more, but she continues to chase away the records. There is also Sharapova, who comes to defend her title, Halep and Suarez Navarro, but when Serena really wants something, she always finds the means to obtain it. I wonder well which is going to stop her. "

Followed by this handsome Justine's photo:

So handsome!!!!

Here's a long translated transcription of Justine's interview by Danielle, thank you so much!

" Justine Henin special guest of the Big Express of the Health " - Jean-Marc Morandini - on the radio Europe I

JMM - It is Justine Henin who joined us, hello, thank you for being live with us on Europe I. Victorious quadruple of Roland-Garros, consultant tennis also of France Télévision, because we decided to propose a special today dedicated to the sport and to the health, to the sport and to the shape since this terrace of Roland-Garros, Justine Henin you began the sport very early, in 5 years I believe?

JH - Ah yes, it is necessary to have predispositions I I had, I was lucky enough to be born with a technical talent because physically I have all the same a small template, thus I had to work, very physically, a lot what makes that I have a body a little used today moreover in only 33 years.

JMM - You feel it today?

JH - Yes very strong, even very very strong. It is true that to fight...

JMM - What is it, it is pains, it is what?

JH - It is pains, it is a little more, we do not know very well, but I do not so much want any more to make other things, I would have to maintain a physical activity, but it is joint pains, it is tendinous pains. I have a 2-year-old girl and sometimes when I carry her in my arms I feel a little the weight of the struck balls which... We are not all like that but all the same many sportsmen pay a little the full price after our career.

JMM - We shall speak about it with the doctors later! Justine Henin and at which moment you began to feel pains finally, the weight of the sport? Since you are stopped or before?

JH - I had a very fragile body at first, and there were no experts who gave a chance to me to arrive there and then as I had a small template, and then to fight against one Serena Williams I had to work harder physically really twice that she and thus very fast wounds. I had a career hindered by wounds but that learns to manage, we surround ourselves with professionals also but finally we take a lot of medicine, that we shall have maybe the opportunity to speak about it also. I give maybe a little bit negative image but anyway I believe that... that it is proved all the same that the sport at a very high level, not mastered is not very very good for the health, thus I felt pains rather young, in 15-16 years I already had rather grave wounds.

JMM - It is interesting what you say Justine Henin, because we have the impression that the sport charges it to you in fact?

JH - Yes I believe that the body does not cheat in my opinion, he does not lie and sometimes we try to hide just a little, there are wounds which we can master and then arrive muscular injuries then there we can hide not at all, and here is they are difficult times in a career because we know that careers are short in certain sports, in the tennis in this particular case thus it is moments when it is necessary to hang on, we shall speak about mental also I think, it is moments when there are many things in the head, the body and the head are closely linked moreover, and there are so many things to be said...

JMM - Dr M. When we hear Justine Henin who speaks to us about wounds, who speaks to us about his body which suffers, that means in fact that the sport at high level it is bad?

Dr M - Not we cannot say that it is bad but after there is frankly a question of predisposition and template, it is sure that if you have tennis players who play in the flexibility, when you see Federer which plays, we have the impression that he dances, and then when you see Nadal we have the impression that he is a boxer, thus it is obvious that it is not at all, that they will not be the same consequences, thus there is a template, it is true that Justine was not of Serena Williams's template for example, that changes everything because there you use your articulations, it is repeated, repeated, repeated traumas and then that depends on surfaces of the food and on the stress...

JH - A little the stress also from the moment there is a personality... me I have a rather anxious personality, I think that Federer is in the management of his feelings, thus he manages to evacuate things much more serenely than a very anxious player who contracts and thus risks to injure himself much more easily.

JMM - Dr M. When she tells us that the wounds that she had, or that she has today, or the pains we can say that that does of the hurt for the body?

Dr M - It is true that that hurts, you have lot of sports on which the consequences are really very important, not to mention the boxing, of the soccer, the tennis, finally there are lot of sports where you have repeated, repeated, repeated micro-traumas, then we understand well in the boxing because we get knocked about in the head non-stop, but it is similar to the tennis because you have besides the calendars of matches which are really borderline what to recover now because of the imperatives of the media, we agree?

JH - Yes there is that, and then there is a calendar which does that we stop in the middle of November then on January 1st the season starts again, even sometimes earlier, thus we set one week, ten days holidays then we restart the preparation, we reconstruct bases. You should not pity the sportsmen obviously, it is the lives which we adore, which give us a lot and in whom we do a commitment obviously and we try. It is necessary to try to respect its body also one moment, but I think that at some point a sportsman has difficulty in respecting his body because he wants to get through what!

JMM - Justine Henin you also speak about medicine, you say " I took a lot of medicine " it is medicine which calm the pain, which mask the pain?

JH - A lot of anti-inflammatory drugs, oh yes I think that it is something about what we do not speak, we begin to speak about it more and more and I believe that we begin to say also that that creates cardiovascular problems and normally... I I took a lot of anti-inflammatory drugs because I had tendinitis to the left and to the right and because when you have one finale of Grand slam to be played. Moreover the year when I abandoned against Amélie Mauresmo in finale of Open of Australia, I had a grave wound in the shoulder and I took so much anti-inflammatory drugs that I finish to made a stomach ulcer and thus here we are. And at some point people speak a lot of doping but we do not sometimes speak of it on the excessive-medicalization which is in the sport...

Dr C - It is especially necessary to speak about the notion of traumas and you have two types of traumas, you have the immediate trauma, that is the one who injures himself during the competition, because he gets hit or because he made a bad movement, and you have these micro-traumas repeated in particular in the case of the tennis, that means that there is a single arm which moves, thus which is requested, thus there is a physical imbalance which is going to continue during the age of the life and the second thing, in particular in the tennis, it is the blockings, and when we speak about competition we know that we go extremely of the body and to go extremely of the body it is exactly to go up to the breaking point of the ligament, the tendon, of the muscle, that is going to leave aftereffects of the years later, thus it is normal to have wounds in competitive sport and to keep them.
JMM - Dr M We also go to see when we are valid, not big sportsmen as Justine in any case, when we a little go in for sport, which are basic rules to respect when we go in for sport?

Dr M - Then the basic rule it is of no step to begin, for example the tennis players of Sunday or the skiers of the holidays, what they are doing it is that they do absolutely nothing the year and then at some point they begin running as rabbits and there really there are dangers, dangers for the back, the back really sets a great deal of risks, because you have risks of slipped discs, spasms, dangers also for muscles, muscles are requested and the strains, the strains, and the dangers also in term cardiovascular because you should not forget when we went in for sport we always believe be 25 or 30 years old, Jean-Michel and I we spoke about it, we made tennis young, maintaining you put us on a court, if we put us 3-4 a little bit violent balls in a row, we risk to do a heart attack.

JMM - We see that there is a lot of people which continue to go in for sport in 60-70 years, we see tennis players on Sundays or the weekend on grounds...

Dr M - Yes if you entail, if you are followed there is no problem, you warm up before, you clean up yourselves later, there is no problem we can play for a long time. We cannot play the same rhythm but the difficulty, it is often what, what arrives to the sportsmen of Sunday, it is that they do nothing and then we make them a tennis match do and then at once they start again dashing off and it is on a starting up etc. you can be made, there is of major risks, and then wounds it is very very grave. But it is the cardiovascular risk because to play, to look we remember ourselves of Michel Berger, a tennis in height "dodger" while you are not well entailed, that will be very dangerous.

JMM - Are there sports which it is necessary to avoid according to the advanced age, when we are 40 years old? Is it necessary to avoid... which sports when we are 50 years old which sports etc. there are sporting contraindications?

Dr M - There are contraindications, but I think especially I to have practised quite a lot of sports, and for the councillor including in the prevention, before any the sport it is necessary to indulge itself, that is of no use to tell somebody " made by the running " because he does not like that, because he does not take pleasure, it is necessary to take some pleasure, later it is necessary to do it according to your means, we cannot in 45-50 years do the sport as we did it for 20 years, it is impossible...

JMM - Justine Henin you spoke to us, you have a girl I believe, that's it ok, your girl you would like that she begins going in for sport at high level from 5 years as you made it or you say yourselves now frankly, not frankly it is true that that frightens?

JH - Not that physically but they are lives here we are, it is very rich lives, I shall never regret the one that I lived, now if one me said we do a commitment and we give every during a number of years, with a great deal of sacrifices thus I would assume, I would try to put her in good hands, not to advise her... I hope that she will be no tennis player one day...

JMM - You hope that she will not be a tennis player?

JH - Here is it will be her life, she already has her personality drawn well in 2 years, yes it would not be my wish but I think not, I would want something else for her, but at the same time I believe that I not much have to say...

JMM - Dr M The councils which we can give also always to people who listen to us, we advise necessarily to draw up check-ups regularly when we go in for sport?

Dr M - A leave a certain age it is clear that it is necessary to make a cardiovascular check up, there is a minimum of things to do, a cardiological examination, let us let us say from 40 years, 40 years there has a minimum you have to do a blood check-up to see if you do not have too much cholesterol, what we call risk factors, and if you regularly play to do all the same cardiovascular check-up, electrocardiogram, ultrasound, it is a minimum of things to take preventive action, then that it is the B.A.B.A. and then to respect at the same time a food and a training, the warm-up it is fundamental, me I saw on tennis courts, to see people who drank some beer and who smoked between the tricks, that seems completely absurd but that exists!

JMM - The notion of warm-up is important Justine Henin because you, big sportswoman, you know it maybe, because people who play tennis, or in other sports moreover, in the soccer the weekend do not make it...

JH - It is important, I have a small anecdote, I do a meeting with the Belgian press once a year and there I played with journalists exactly 15 days ago, the classic blow which, the guy who had not played any more since I do not know, two years, and then he arrived, he wanted to go all out, he wanted to show things, strain in the thigh obviously, thus the classic blow, not they are things to be avoided and I would say that it is at all the ages, actually the cardiac problems that can arrive later but it is fundamental, we come not on a playing field without warming up, in more the tennis is a very explosive sport, it is necessary to go there smoothly, me when I rose on the court I stood out, at first there was a preliminary warm-up, and then I stood out 5 in 10 minutes to hit the ball very very slowly, but even sometimes the high-level sportsmen you know it needs to remind them that every day, they are disciplined but it is necessary to remind to them all the same that...

JMM - And during winter, your level in the warm-up that set how long, to have an idea for people who listen to us then you are a big sportswoman, you train perpetually...

JH - Yes before beginning to hit the slightest ball, it was between 20 and 30 minutes of warm-up, I ran, I did small exercises, in more I had a problem in the shoulder thus I had to make just a little specific exercises on my shoulder, everybody obviously do not have to make that, but that maintains.

JMM - Not but that proves that even you 20 in 30 minutes of warm-up it is very long...

JH - Obviously, obviously yes it is a minimum

JMM - Dr C?

Dr C - A small anecdote, because just now Marcel spoke about some beer, I shall call back historically that the Australian players, in particular Rod Laver who won all the same twice the Grand slam, explained that at the end of every match he felt the need to drink one or two beers because he considered that it was a myo-relaxant and that helped him to relax his muscles, then we forgot this technique but in this particular case it was true that...

JMM - I drink it before...

JH - Good it was not so bad in fact...

Dr C - The problem it is that people made exactly the same thing...

JH - The problem it is the quantity which later...

Dr C - The problem it is the quantity they drank a beer and then they visited the physiotherapist who took care of them...

JMM - Justine Henin you continue to be enormously followed medically today to see a little the consequences of the sport?

JH - Not I do a blood check-up in a rather regular way as everybody should do it I think, thus I am
completely normally followed, I have no problem either to get up in the morning, it is not so catastrophic as that, I hope that I am going to age, there is still full there other things, I do the yoga I maintaining, you see it is much softer, that allows to go towards another shape of breath, relaxation, before I needed to be always in the strength by going in for sport, and today I see that as a little more physical activity, to move, things which do good to the head also, because that it is important...

And then there's an interview of Justine on Serena...hmmm, don't really care about Serena but well, just enjoy the video:

http://www.tennisactu.net/news-chronique-justine-henin-serena-a-ce-qu-elle-veut-40659.html

Roland-Garros 2015 - Chronique Justine Henin... by tennisactu

Same for this article link below:

http://www.francetvsport.fr/roland-garros/justine-henin-des-attentes-tres-fortes-pour-serena-williams-279454

Justine is worried about Nadal:

http://tennisactu.net/news-chronique-justine-henin-je-m-inquiete-pour-nadal-40362.html

Roland-Garros 2015 - Justine Henin : "Je suis... by tennisactu

Something that Justine shares with us, her thoughts:

http://www.rtl.be/sport/tous-les-sports/tennis/voici-ce-qui-inquiete-justine-henin-722834.aspx

Thank you to Danielle for her translation:

This is what worries Justine Henin
Published on May 12th, 2015 at 5:21 pm

" The tennis and the adrenalin do not miss me, I am happier than I was him never during my career ", assured on Tuesday Justine Henin during a meeting with the press within his club of Limelette ( Walloon Brabant). On the other hand, she observes the male tennis and a thing worried: unfitness of Rafael Nadal.

" The tennis gave me a great deal of pleasure, but I affect my racket from now on only from time to time, and only to give from the pleasure to the others, in particular to the children. I receive requests to play doubles in exhibition, maybe which one day I shall accept. "

Justine Henin's only sports practices limit themselves from now on to the yoga, to the relaxation and to a little of jogging. The former champion continues nevertheless to follow the current events of the tennis, in particular for missions of consultant which she will soon perform to Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

More attracted from now on by the male tennis, Rochefortoise admits to be worried for Rafael Nadal, to about ten days of the beginning of his tournament idol. " He seems begun physically and mentally. I was surprised by his number of balls moved away from the center these last weeks. He plays besides very short. His opponents feel that he is weakened, even if he has a psychological advantage to Roland. This tournament could be a turning point in his career. "

For Parisian about fifteen, former number 1 world point Novak Djokovic as odds-on favorite. She esime that David Goffin's tournament will depend many of the drawing. The life of the former champion is given rhythm from now on by her two-year-old daughter, the management of her tennis club of Limelette and her association " Justine for Kids ".

She does not at the moment see performing a function of coach or captain of Fed Cup.

And aren't we all excited to see her hitting some Tennis balls again? After so long, ps visit the link itself to view the video, I can't find the embed option anywhere in the source:

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/tennis/1.2338496

The clay Queen

An interview of Justine who stated that she is very happy now:

http://www.telepro.be/011-34864-Justine-Henin-Je-suis-plus-heureuse-que-je-ne-l-ai-jamais-ete-lors-de-ma-carriere.html

http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1513/tennis/article/detail/2318516/2015/05/12/Plus-heureuse-que-jamais-Justine-Henin-raconte-sa-nouvelle-vie.dhtml

http://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20150512_00648051?utm_source=lavenir&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=soir&utm_content=general-news&m_bt=22797001167

http://sportmagazine.levif.be/sport/tennis/justine-henin-plus-heureuse-qu-elle-ne-l-a-jamais-ete/article-normal-394723.html\

http://www.rtbf.be/sport/tennis/detail_je-suis-bien-plus-heureuse-aujourd-hui-que-quand-je-jouais?id=8979047

http://www.sport.be/fr/autres/article.html?Article_ID=728455

Here's the video link:
https://pdlvimeocdn-a.akamaihd.net/55535/146/366479726.mp4?token2=1433132468_c2d92490db6e14f99c94d02b057661e4&aksessionid=3e7e8e70d6eaf8fa
http://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20150512_00648066

Danielle's English translation:

Justine Henin: " I am happier than I was him never during my career "

The former N 1 world of tennis is satisfied with its mom's role today.

Justine Henin's only sports practices limit themselves from now on to the yoga, to the relaxation and to a little of jogging.

The former champion continues nevertheless to follow the current events of the tennis, in particular for missions of consultant which she will soon perform to Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

For Parisian fifteen, former number 1 world point Novak Djokovic as odds-on favorite. She considers that David Goffin's tournament will depend many of the drawing.

The life of the former champion is given rhythm from now on by her two-year-old daughter, the management of its tennis club of Limelette and her association " Justine for Kids ". She does not at the moment see performing a function of coach or captain of Fed Cup.

Posting some photos of her:

Her wearing pink always reminds me of her 2007 RG moments

She hasn't lost her touch for sure...

What happened to my upload such that it's so blurry? But at least it can't hide her beautiful smile!

Look how happy she laughs!

Happy Henin!

One day, I would really want to visit her club, it seems like a beautiful relaxing place to go ^_^

The dark Ju, because it's really dark to see her face clearly

Ah, this is much better in lighting

There's forever a serious Ju photo

Even if half of her face is hidden, you can see how serious she is when she's playing tennis! The killer instinct

Ju is not the shortest, sorry lady!

I would like to take this time to post all Danielle's translation for the above related articles on Justine and her life now:

Published on Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 at 4:39 pm

Open-heart Justine Henin: " the tennis and the adrenalin do not really miss me " (photos)

Belgian and international tennis, career, private life, associative projects … Justine Henin evaded no subject during a meeting with the press, on Tuesday, within his club of Limelette in the Walloon Brabant. " The tennis and the adrenalin do not miss me, I am happier than I was it never during my career ", she assured.

" The tennis gave me a great deal of pleasure, but I affect my racket from now on only from time to time, and only to give from the pleasure to the others, in particular to the children. I receive requests to play doubles in exhibition, maybe which one day I shall accept. The adrenalin does not miss me either, like that had been able to be the case after my first sports retreat. I became a mom, I need serenity, what is a real challenge in a world where everything moves so fast. I feel even no more nostalgia when I see one finale of Grand slam. I always need to move and to quench my taste for the journeys, but I am at present happier than I was it never during my career ".

Justine Henin's only sports practices limit themselves from now on to the yoga, to the relaxation, " which calm (my) big anxiety " and in a little of jogging. " I understood that the strength did not pass necessarily by the pain and that the world of the tennis is not the world as such, as I could consider it when I was a player. When I resumed the competition, I did not make it particularly by desire, but because I felt an enormous space. Nevertheless, I quickly had to face the facts: I was exhausted physically and mentally affected. More not to be at the top level was an option. Finale in front of Kim ( Clijsters) to Brisbane was fantastic, but I had to give twice more that before. The wound incurred in Australian Open which followed was finally wholesome, I understood that it was not any more for me. And then, it is while being at it that I met my companion who became my husband, my life changed ".

" Worry about Nadal "

The former champion, who as spectator admits a weakness for Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, continues nevertheless to follow the current events of the tennis, in particular for missions of consultant which she will soon perform to Roland Garros and Wimbledon. " When I look at the matches, I analyze essentially the behavior of the players, what really makes the difference for the highest level. In Paris, I shall be present during two weeks for France Télévision and not only to comment on matches, but also for analyses. In London, it will be about a particular experience because I shall work for the radio BBC, beside big names as John Mc Enroe ".

More attracted from now on by the male tennis, Rochefortoise admits to be worried for Rafael Nadal, to about ten days of the beginning of his tournament idol. " He seems begun physically and mentally. I was surprised by his number of balls moved away from the center these last weeks. He plays besides very short. His opponents feel that he is weakened, even if he has a psychological advantage to Roland. This tournament could be a turning point in his career ".

For Parisian about fifteen, former number 1 world point Novak Djokovic as odds-on favorite. " His results plead for him, his game evolved, he became a dad … He behaves from now on as a real number 1, even if to run after the Grand slam which his prize list misses is always difficult, I know about what I speak ", she specifies in an allusion to the fact that she has never managed to stand out in Wimbledon.

As regards Andy Murray, recent winner of Nadal in Madrid, Justine Henin gets from him " a much more aggressive approach, more initiatives and creativity ", that she attributes to a "effect Mauresmo". The Scotsman, from now on coached by former number 1 French, will be a player to follow in the Door of Auteuil, she estimates. " His first victory on hard-packed surface, in Munich, made for him in any case a lot ".

Concerning Belgian, Justine Henin finds more asserted David Goffin. " He is not any more the same than the year of his 1/8th final in front of Federer, he became experienced. His speech evolved, he shows some envy and a good mentality. He has to assume from now on player's status of the top 20. His tournament will depend many of the drawing ".

At the girls, she regrets the absence of emergence of a new wave, in spite of her enormous respect for Serena Williams. At the Belgian level, " there is a hollow, it will be necessary to wait. It is not easy to ensure continuity having known a period with two players about the first two world places ", she estimates.

Her new life

The life of the former champion is given rhythm from now on by her two-year-old daughter, the management of his tennis club of Limelette and her association " Justine for Kids ". " The management interests me, I am moreover going to form this way. I was very isolated in my bubble of high-level sportswoman during my career, maintaining I want to learn other people. The part which concerns the transmission to the young players of my academy is also very important. The purpose is not only to make champions, it also has to be a school of life. I need to discover things which I was not able to experiment during my career, by living in an instant present and without falling ".

Rochefortoise aims, by means of her association, at the opening of a house of respite in namuroise region at the beginning of 2018. A project the budget of which is of a million euros and which should allow to welcome two to three families affected by the disease of a child. " It is not about one
hospital, but about a host's warm house which will allow to get fresh ideas free of charge and with the supervision of a medical committee. There is at present only three in Belgium, the objective thus is to answer the real request ".

The best Belgian player of the history does not at the moment see performing a function of coach or captain of Fed Cup. " I do not close the door, but it is the 100% investment which is not on the agenda. I shall make it, possibly, only when I shall have the impression to be really able to do it well ".
" I am happier today than when I played " - BRUNO FAHY - BELGA

It almost became a tradition, a few days away from the beginning of Roland Garros, Justine Henin welcomes the press for a desultory meeting. Selected passages.

Justine what do you think of Rafael Nadal this season. Do you think that he can sign a 10th victory?

It is certain that he is not in the best conditions. We can speak so much that about it we want but the truth, it is on the ground that we see it. In Madrid, he showed good things but I was also amazed by the number of balls badly centered from him in front of Murray. I do not say that he is going to play his career to Roland but I think that he is begun so physically as mentally.

Another favorite?

The favorite number one it is Djoko. When we look at the evolution of his game, the fact that he became dad brings to him of the maturity. It can be the year. He makes things in a thoughtful way. He takes time to rest as by skipping over Madrid. And then the chain Roland and Wimbledon, lengthened of week this year, it is positive for him. He has shoulders to assume his place of number one and favorite of the tournament. I do not see why that would resist him. Besides, even if Roland remains the only grand slam which misses him, I think that he manages better and better his feelings.

Were impressed to you by Murray's victory in Madrid?

Murray is always unconquered on ground. It is true that I liked well the way he plays in front of Nadal. We felt a more aggressive, closer game of his line. Doubtless that there is an effect Mauresmo. He works in the confidence and this victory in Madrid is going to bring it to him more still. He is a member of men to follow.

" If Serena wants, it is difficult to stop her "

Serena Williams - GÉRARD JULIEN - AFP

A blow of eye on the feminine board?

I regret that there is behind Serena and Sharapova no girls who push, that a new generation does not arrive. I have an admiration for Serena who is always there and motivated after so many years. We have the impression that if Serena wants, it is difficult to stop her.

Let us speak Belgians...

There are many expectations around the Belgians to Roland. David ( Goffin) is not any more the same player as the one who made 8th. It is a more asserted player. He has a status to be assumed, from there to beat big and to go far that is going to depend also on the drawing. To be " Top 10 " at the guys, it is necessary to beat very good players and in a regular way. Now, he has to succeed in making that in the big tournaments.

An advice to David to reach there?

I do not know enough his way of working but I think that the potential and the will are there. If we look at Davydenko, he was frail also but he played with other assets

And others?

Ruben ( Bemelmans) enters in him top100, Steve ( Darcis) comes back from his wound. It is positive for the Belgian public which always waits for many of his players during the Parisian tournament.

As for Yanina ( Wickmayer), I am her only through her results. That means from a great distance... There were so many expectations. It is difficult to express an opinion because I did not see her any more playing for a long time. It is difficult to pronounce me.

I am convinced that in a career is needed a minimum of stability. I do not speak Yanina exactly but many players and players change circle of acquaintances as soon as the results do not follow. It is true that Belgium was very bad. I do not know if we shall know another situation with one number one and one number two. It is necessary to be positive and to remain optimistic. What is certain, it is that the society also changes. The children do not make a single activity but several, they discover other sports and do not put a lot any more completely into a way. I wonder if it is not going to have consequences on the future.

You imagine a sports future for your daughter?

My daughter will decide on what she will want to do. The only thing which I wish, it is that she goes at the bottom of things when we begin something we go up to the end.

And you? It is finished the sport? You have other leisure activities?

I always advised to people to go in for sport a little to be at ease with themselves and now I also advise it to me. I began myself in the yoga even if some do not consider it as a sport, that brings me a lot of serenity and you know that when I played I was relatively put under stress (laughter).

Otherwise other than that, I am always a traveler. I need to move but I appreciate that the time stops from time to time. I am happier today than when I played.

Justine Henin exchanged some balls(bullets) with the journalists - BRUNO FAHY - BELGA

Otherwise how organize you your days?

They are loaded, I assure it you. Since Carlos left for China, I take care a great deal of the management of the club: sportswoman, financier and human. We threw besides the club a branch seminary fate to companies.

It arrived overnight but as I like learning, I like the challenge. I wanted to raise this challenge. We have the image of an elitist club for example and that did not please me. I wanted to change that. It is true that I surrounded well myself and that I delegate a lot but that fascinates me. I grew up in clubs and I always liked seeing all this world living, the young person who comes to play once a week, the retired man who comes to hit the ball, couple who comes to eat here to the restaurant or the companies which come to form. The tennis is not in a prosperous era, there are many of the small clubs which have difficulty, it is true that it's not a walk in the park.

I do not say that I shall still be here in 5 years to manage the club. I learnt to live more the present moment. While I always needed control, I now make way for the surprises and then I also leave the open door abroad but with a very precise project.

" To coach? I do not close the door but not for the moment "

The coaching can interest you?

To coach, it is the job which does not act as itself. It is the 100 %. It is no door which I close but not for the moment. To coach it is very different to play. I have things to be yes transmitted but a coach, it is someone who is capable of making take out the maximum of the qualities of his player. Have I this young anything? I do not know.

And captain of Fed Cup?

No, I do not think of it. But when we speak about my passions and about my timetable. There is also a Justine association 4 Kids with the project of rest home. It is a project which I hold. We wish that it is developed for 2018.

It is doubtless there, with the children, that I feel best. We really want to offer a service which meets the needs. The mom who comes does not have to care to make the meal or to take care also of her other children. It is the pediatric centers which will decide which families will come. Our purpose, it is to be able to offer the free access. We have many companies behind us. We feel that people also want to refocus on the main part. We also want to collaborate with associations which have less fame. With my name I am conscious that it is easier to make things happen... At present we look for a ground in the namuroise region but our objective, it is to end for 2018. It is an imperative.

I call back moreover the date of June 21st and the jogging for the benefit of the association in Han sur Lesse with the last kilometer in caves. There will be three distances: 5km, 10km and Trail. We created 5 kilometers to affect the population of the region and Trail of 20 kilometers should allow to fill the expectations of those who made the road to come up to there. The frame is luxurious... We are not in a route where people come to make a stopwatch, it is a family atmosphere.

Always in search of challenges? What will be the next one?

My next challenge... It will be in Wimbledon. The challenge is considerable because it will be on the BBC but in radio and in English with consultants as Mc Enroe and Navratilova. It will please me to go back there.
Henin: ' the tennis does not miss me ' in 12.05.2015 ¦ Bruno Verscheure

Belga

Belgian and international tennis, career, private life, associative projects... Justine Henin evaded no subject during a meeting with the press, on Tuesday, within her club of Limelette.

" The tennis and the adrenalin do not miss me, I am happier than I was him never during my career ", she assured. " The tennis gave to me a great deal of pleasure, but I affect my racket from now on only from time to time, and only to give from the pleasure to the others, in particular to the children. I receive requests to play doubles in exhibition, maybe which one day I shall accept. The adrenalin does not miss me either, like that had been able to be the case after my first sports retreat. I became a mom, I need serenity, what is a real challenge in a world where everything moves so fast. I feel even no more nostalgia when I see one finale of Grand slam. I always need to move and to quench my taste for the journeys, but I am at present happier than I was him never during my career. "

Justine Henin's only sports practices limit themselves from now on to the yoga, to the relaxation, " which calm (my) big anxiety " and in a little of jogging. " I understood that the strength did not pass necessarily by the pain and that the world of the tennis is not the world as such, as I could consider it when I was a player. When I resumed the competition, I did not make it particularly by envy, but because I felt an enormous space. Nevertheless, I quickly had to face the facts: I was exhausted physically and mentally begun. More not to be at the top level was an option. Finale in front of Kim ( Clijsters) to Brisbane was fantastic, but I had to give twice more that before. The wound incurred in Australian Open which followed was finally wholesome, I understood that it was not any more for me. And then, it is while being at it that I met my companion who became my husband, my life changed. "

NADAL

The former champion, who as spectator admits a weakness for Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, continues nevertheless to follow the current events of the tennis, in particular for missions of consultant which she will soon perform to Roland Garros and Wimbledon. " When I look at the matches, I analyze essentially the behavior of the players, what really makes the difference for the highest level. In Paris, I shall be present during two weeks for France Télévision and not only to comment on matches, but also for analyses. In London, it will be about a particular experience because I shall work for the radio BBC, beside big names as John McEnroe. "

More attracted from now on by the male tennis, Rochefortoise admits to be worried for Rafael Nadal, to about ten days of the beginning of his tournament idol. " He seems begun physically and mentally. I was surprised by his number of balls moved away from the center these last weeks. He plays besides very short. His opponents feel that he is weakened, even if he has a psychological advantage to Roland. This tournament could be a turning point in his career. "

For Parisian about fifteen, former number 1 world point Novak Djokovic as odds-on favorite. " His results plead for him, his game evolved, he became a dad... He behaves from now on as a real number 1, even if to run after the Grand slam which his prize list misses is always difficult, I know about what I speak ", she specifies in an allusion to the fact that she has never managed to stand out in Wimbledon.

GOFFIN

As regards Andy Murray, recent winner of Nadal in Madrid, Justine Henin gets from him " a much more aggressive approach, more initiatives and creativity ", that she attributes to a "effect Mauresmo". The Scotsman, from now on coached by former number 1 French, will be a player to follow in the Door of Auteuil, she estimates. " His first victory on hard-packed surface, in Munich, made for him in any case a lot. "

Concerning Belgian, Justine Henin finds " more asserted " David Goffin. " He is not any more the same than the year of his 1/8th final in front of Federer, he became experienced. His speech evolved, he shows some envy and a good mentality. He has to assume from now on player's status of the top 20. His tournament will depend many of the drawing. "

At the girls, she regrets the absence of emergence of a new wave, in spite of her " enormous respect for Serena Williams ". At the Belgian level, " there is a hollow, it will be necessary to wait. It is not easy to ensure continuity having known a period with two players about the first two world places ", she estimates.
Interview de Cristel Joiris - L'Avenir.

CJ - Justine vous faites beaucoup de choses en dehors du tennis également, vous prenez du temps aujourd'hui à revenir à l'Académie dont vous vous occupez, pouvez-vous nous faire part à quel point vous vous investissez?

JH - Oh je suis là, si pas tous les jours, au moins tous les deux jours à m'investir dans l'Académie avec les jeunes, à transmettre un maximum de choses, et puis la gestion de tout le club en général, qui est un club de tennis, qui est une école de tennis classique, et qui est maintenant un centre d'affaires, on a des salles où des séminaires peuvent se dérouler, un restaurant, c'est plus qu'un Club, il se passe beaucoup de choses, des activités, je m'occupe de la gestion. Alors c'est vrai que ce n'était pas ce que j'avais imaginé comme reconversion et le défi pour moi c'est d'apprendre de nouvelles choses, à manager des équipes, d'ailleurs je dois continuer à être formée en management pour être plus performante, un petit peu de gestion financière, de gestion humaine, de développer de nouvelles choses, je ne sais pas si je serai encore là dans 5 ans, mais en tout cas c'est un apprentissage pour moi de pouvoir développer tout ça, ça c'est sûr, et puis il y a mon association "Justine for Kids" pour les enfants malades. Là on essaie de développer des projets qui font du bien aux enfants, qui permettent aux familles de souffler, on organise des événements pour récolter des fonds et beaucoup d'activités pour les enfants et ça, ça me donne beaucoup d'énergie parce que ça donne énormément de sens à ce que je fais.

CJ - Avec un jogging justement prochainement?

JH - Oui, ce sera le 21 juin à Han-sur-Lesse, c'est déjà la 4ème édition des 10 km des Grottes, mais en sachant que cette année il n'y aura pas seulement les 10 km, il y aura également un 5 km et un trail de 20 km, donc on aura toutes les panoplies de sportifs, une journée très conviviale, très familiale, avec la particularité que pour chaque parcours le dernier km se court dans les Grottes. Il y a aussi une course pour enfants, un village pour enfants, une journée qui me plait énormément, parce que c'est le sport, c'est la santé, au profit d'enfants qui ont besoin qu'on les soutiennent et que je m'implique énormément dans ce projet là aussi.

CJ - Le fait d'être maman c'est tout aussi intensif que d'être sur le terrain?

JH - Je crois que c'est plus intensif, c'est une intensité différente, c'est sûr que c'est plus équilibrant en tout cas, je pense que c'est vraiment ce dont j'avais besoin, ce que je voulais, ça remet en question, ça fait avancer et puis les priorités changent et je me sens beaucoup plus épanouie aujourd'hui que je ne l'étais quand j'étais joueuse, même si ma carrière m'a donné des grands moments de joie, aujourd'hui il y a moins de hauts et de bas, il y a plus de constance et ça me convient très bien.

Interview of Cristel Joiris - The Future.

CJ - Justine you do many things except the tennis also, you take today time to return to the Academy of which you take care, can you announce us to what extent you put a lot?

JH - Oh I am there, so not every day, at least every two days to put a lot into the Academy with the young people, to transmit a maximum of things, and then the management of all the club generally, which is a tennis club, which is a school of classic tennis, and which is now a business center, we have rooms where seminars can take place, a restaurant, it is more that a Club, there are many things, activities, I take care of the management. Then it is true that it was not what I had imagined as reconversion and the challenge for me it is to learn new things, to manager of the teams, moreover I have to continue to be formed in management to be more successful, just a little financial management, human management, to develop new things, I do not know if I shall still be there in 5 years, but in any case it is a apprenticeship for me to be able to develop all this, that is for sure, and then there is my association " Justine for Kids " for the sick children. There we try to develop projects which do good to the children, which allow the families to blow, we organize events to collect funds and many activities for the children and that, that gives me a lot of energy because that gives a great deal of sense in what I'm doing.

CJ - With a jogging exactly soon?

JH - Yes, it will be June 21st to Han-sur-Lesse, it is already the 4th edition of 10 km of Caves, but by knowing that this year there will be not only 10 km, there will be also 5 km and trail of 20 km, thus we shall have all the sportsmen's outfits, a very friendly, very family day, with the peculiarity that for every route last km runs in Caves. There is also a running for children, a village for children, one day which pleases me enormously, because it is the sport, it is the health, for the benefit of children who need that one support them and because I get involved enormously in this project there also.

CJ - The fact of being a mom it is also intensive as to be on the courts?

JH - I believe that it is more intensive, it is a different intensity, it is sure that it is more balancing in any case, I think that it is really what I needed, what I wanted, that questions, that takes forward and then the priorities change and I feel much more spread today than I was it when I was a player, even if my career gave me great moments of enjoyment, today there is fewer tops and bottom, there is more constancy and that suits me very well. (continued below)
CJ - We are going to see you soon on France Télévision, it is not new but you make all the tournament this year, it is a real pleasure for you that?

JH - Yes it is true that I took quite a lot of distance with regard to the circuit and to the world of the tennis, except for the last year I had already worked for France TV hanging Roland Garros. I like returning in Paris, I like returning to Roland because it is a place where I feel really good. To work for the television it is something which also pleases me, then the atmosphere in France TV is really..., it is a big family, thus there is a very good working atmosphere, thus that be going to be only positive things. I hope that I can bring a look, a good analysis on the game, on the tournament and I shall make it in any case to 100%(fully) as usual.

CJ - Who you adore commenting exactly, which is the player at whom you prefer to look?

JH - Ah it is Federer unquestionably, I like very much Wawrinka also, I love the players who create, who develop of the game and Federer is the genius, I believe that everybody likes looking at him, he is even difficult to comment so much finally here is I am one big fan. And after there are interesting things in all the matches, I am really fascinated by the psychological and mental aspect of the players and the players when they are capable of going out the best of themselves, finally at this level there there is a question of tennis but also a question which takes place in the head and in the will and the one that wants it more than the other one and that, that fascinates me. And thus I like looking at the matches especially for that!

CJ - The live, that does not put under stress us too much?

JH - Not, I am not worried, well there are surprises, anything can happen live, we can sometimes be close by or be been a surprise by certain things, but I am not really afraid of that. On the base I am someone who is rather in the control and I begin to be made it just a little, but reasonably, thus not, the live it is not something which frightens me, that I find interesting, that can make go out full of great things also...

- Justine Henin on TV France for Roland Garros: " my preferred? Federer obviously... "

Cristel JOIRIS ( @Cristel_Joiris ) - The Future

Justine Henin met the press it on Tuesday afternoon, fifteen days before Roland Garros when the former Belgian star of the tennis will comment with all the French team on Television. She speaks to us about this new mission of TV commentator...

+ READ ALSO ¦ " I am happier than I was him never during my career(quarry) "

Her Parisian trip will last two weeks this year. Justine Henin will be indeed consultant for France Télévision during all the duration of Roland Garros. A job which fascinates her. Discover our video above.

One more article on Justine saying RG is her preferred:

http://tennisactu.net/news-chronique-justine-henin-roland-garros-mon-prefere-40154.html

Roland-Garros 2015 - Chronique Justine Henin... by tennisactu

Here's something not related to RG but congrats to Justine Henin Academy for making its listing in this website as one of the top best tennis academies in the world! Allez JHA!

http://robcherrytennis.com/index.php/best-tennis-academies-in-the-world/

Justine as a business woman:

Can you count how many Justines are there?

I wondered what she's talking about

Ju has a great fashion sense, I love her scarf haha!

This day Justine participated in a conference, with several other participants, which has for subject the young people who want to launch into the business by the sale, you will find below the transcription of her interview as well as the translation.
On the French-speaking version there is also the entire meeting (57 minutes) but the part which concerns us is the one the interview of Justine...

http://www.lalibre.be/…/comment-reussir-dans-le-monde-de-la…

How succeed in the world of the sale?

On-line writing - Monday, May 04th, 2015 at 5:39 pm

Current events Sales Academy, a practical training school in the sale supported by ICHEC-Entreprises, organized an on-line conference intended for the young people who wish to launch into the businesses by the sale. This one is kept since the European Parliament, in the presence of personalities of the Belgian entrepreneurial, political and sports world.

This conference was chaired by the director of the school, Thibaut Deckers. Michel Bienert, coach specialized in the techniques of sale, Emmanuel Foulon, specialist of the communication, Marie Arena and Pascal Arimont, Members of the European Parliament and Justine Henin were present, ex world number one world of tennis which described its vision of the winning strategies. The latter put in parallel the sporting event and the world of the sale.

Interview
Justine Henin, du tennis au business

Ce lundi Emmanuel Foulon organisait au Parlement Européen, une émission consacrée au chômage chez les jeunes et les remèdes. Différentes personnalités étaient invitées dont Justine Henin.

JH – Ben voilà je crois qu'on m'a félicitée pour mes messages de motivation et on a cité mon parcours. C'est vrai qu'un parcours n'est pas l'autre, moi j'ai vécu une vraie vocation, je n'ai pas eu à me poser la question à 18 ans à voir vers quelles études ou genre de vocation je voulais aller. J'ai tout de suite voulu devenir joueuse de tennis et c'est devenu mon obsession, mais le but c'est aussi d'avoir un message positif, il y a encore des choses positives pour les jeunes, il faut continuer à rester positif, il faut créer des opportunités et que le potentiel est là !

Journaliste : C'est quoi le parallèle entre le sport de haut niveau et le business ?

JH – Oh il y a beaucoup de points communs je crois, tout se construit, il y a un plan d'action à mettre en place, des stratégies à développer, il y a le dépassement de soi. Je crois que c'est une valeur qui fait beaucoup au niveau de l'entreprise comme au niveau du sport finalement, comment on y arrive, comment on se construit, je crois que c'est comme au travail, c'est par la volonté, par l'envie de repousser les limites. Je pense qu'un chef d'entreprise c'est comme un sportif, on se retrouve proche parce que c'est prendre des décisions et on se demande parfois si ce sont les bonnes à un moment il faut être dans l'action et dans une certaine prise de risque aussi.

Journaliste : Quels sont vos projets actuels au point de vue business ?

JH – Je m'occupe toujours de la gestion de mon Club à Limelette, un peu plus qu'un Club parce que c'est une Académie internationale, parce qu'on a ouvert aussi un Centre d'Affaires maintenant avec des salles d'événements, un restaurant, donc c'est une partie maintenant dont je suis dans la gestion, j'apprends un nouveau métier, j'ai envie de continuer à me former aussi pour ça. Et après j'ai une association qui s'appelle « Justine for Kids » qui vient en aide aux enfants malades en Belgique, à travers le biais de différentes activités, l'organisation de supports techniques, on finance aussi des projets de décoration dans les différents hôpitaux, et dans les 3 ans à venir on a le projet ambitieux d'ouvrir une maison de répit pour les enfants malades et leur famille, c'est pour l'association et c'est dans les 3 ans à venir, donc bien occupée...

Journaliste : Est-ce que vous avez suivi une formation pour gérer tout ça ?

JH – Non, mais j'y pense de plus en plus parce qu'au début je me retrouvée dans la direction d'un Club un peu contrainte parce que ce Club existait et que je l'avais racheté quand j'étais toujours joueuse et que je ne savais pas m'en occuper, et du jour au lendemain j'ai dû m'en occuper, je l'ai fait avec mon bon sens avec ce que je pensais être le plus bel effet, mais je sens que j'ai aussi des limites, que je dois continuer à être formée, parce que j'ai envie d'apprendre, parce que j'ai envie d'être plus performante et donc maintenant le management, une formation de management j'y pense sérieusement, et pour continuer à grandir, et aussi pour mieux épauler mes collaborateurs pour tenir le cap, parce que le patron a besoin d'un personnel au top et une émulation dans les deux sens, et pour ça il faut avoir envie d'évoluer

Translation
Justine Henin, of the tennis in the business

On Monday Emmanue! Foulon organized to the European Parliament, a broadcast was dedicated to the unemployment at the young people and the remedies. Various personalities were invited of which Justine Henin.

JH - Ben here is I believe that we congratulated me on my messages of motivation and we quoted my route. It is true that a route is not the other one, me I lived the real vocation, I did not have to ask myself the question in 18 years to see towards which studies or kind of vocation I wanted to go. I wanted at once to become a tennis player and it became my obsession, but the purpose it also is to have a positive message, there are still positive things for the young people, it is necessary to continue to remain positive, it is necessary to create opportunities and what the potential is there!

Journalist: What is it the parallel between the high-level sport and the business?

JH - Oh there are many common points I believe, everything builds himself, there is an action plan to be set up, strategies to be developed, there is an overtaking of one. I believe that it is the value which makes at the level of the company as at the level of the sport a lot finally, how we arrive there, how we build ourselves, I believe that it is as for the work, it is by the will, by the envy to push back the limits. I think that a business manager it is as a sportsman, we find ourselves close because it is to make decisions and we sometimes wonder if they are the good ones at the moment it is necessary to be in the action and in the certain risk-taking also.

Journalist: what are your current projects in the point of view business?

JH - I always take care of the management of my Club to Limelette, a little more than a Club because it is an international Academy , because we also opened a Business center maintaining with rooms of events, a restaurant, thus it is a maintaining part of which I am in the management, I learn a new job, I want to continue to form also for that. And later I have an association which is called " Justine for Kids " which helps the sick children in Belgium, through the way of various activities, the organization of technical supports, we also finance projects of decoration in the various hospitals, and in coming 3 years we have the project ambitious to open a house of respite for the sick children and their family, it is for the association and it is in coming 3 years, thus occupied well...

Journalist: did you do a training course to manage all this?

JH - Not, but I think of it more and more because at the beginning I me found in the direction of a Club a little forced because this Club existed and because I had acquired it when I was always a player and when I did not know how to take care of it, and overnight I had to take care of it, I made it with my common sense with the fact that I thought of being the most beautiful effect, but I feel that I also have limits, that I have to continue to be formed, because I want to learn, because I want to be more successful and thus maintaining the management, a formation of management I think of it seriously, and to continue to grow up, and also to support better my collaborators to keep heading, because the boss needs an excellent staff and an emulation in both senses, and for that it is necessary to want to evolve

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