Injury-prone Kim Clijsters will be hoping she can avoid further injuries with better scheduling during her final season on the WTA Tour.

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Clijsters won her fourth Grand Slam title in Australia at the start of 2011 but her season was wrecked by a series of injuries, forcing her to miss both Wimbledon and the US Open.

Last week she played her first match since the start of August, defeating world number one Caroline Wozniacki in an exhibition in front of 10,000 fans in Antwerp.  

"The start of 2011 was really good. But after that I made some decisions I no longer would make now," Clijsters told her fans on her official website. "After a physically and psychologically very strenuous Australian Open, the indoor tournament in Paris was the one event too much…. [but] I don't have any regrets. It was because of my final in Paris that I was able to No. 1 again. Now, I'll be listening to my body much better. I have been working really hard on my serve, because that often did not go well in the past year. And there are a few other details I would like to see improve."

Meanwhile there were further hints that this will indeed be Clijsters' final season on the tour. She has joined forces again with old coach Carl Maes (who helped her reach that first Grand Slam final at the French Open in 2001).

"Choosing someone entirely new for her final year would perhaps be a bit too tricky," Maes told the press. "There will always be things you do not have control of, but both physically and on the level of tennis, training is going really well. The main issue is how Kim will put things into practice for a real match."