NEW YORK — Kim Clijsters has kept her U.S. Open comeback on track with a 6-0, 0-6, 6-4 upset over third-seeded Venus Williams.

Returning to Flushing Meadows for the first time since winning here in 2005, Clijsters counterpunched against one of the game’s biggest hitters and handled a blustery wind at Arthur Ashe Stadium to win Sunday’s fourth-round match.
This marks the earliest exit at the Open for Williams since 2004.
Before she left the game to start a family, Clijsters was known as one of the few who could move well enough and hit hard enough to handle the Williams sisters. Not much seems to have changed.
Clijsters, who hasn’t played enough tournaments in her comeback to be ranked, is now two wins away from becoming the first unseeded player at the U.S. Open final since Williams made it in 1997.