BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Australian and U.S. Open champion Kim Clijsters will be sidelined for a month because of shoulder and wrist injuries.
The former world No. 1 from Belgium will miss next week's Fed Cup semifinal against the visiting Czech Republic in Charleroi.
Clijsters said a busy tennis schedule put too much stress on her right shoulder and wrist and she will not be able to hold a tennis racquet for a couple of weeks.
The 27-year-old Clijsters will also miss the Madrid Open next month.
"I don't want to force anything," the second-ranked Clijsters said on her website.
Last month, Clijsters retired from her fourth-round match at Indian Wells because of a shoulder problem, and then last week she lost to eventual champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals in Miami in a rather lethargic performance.
"I felt something was not quite right," Clijsters said. "There were too many successive aches and pains that just didn't want to disappear."
