grrr… i hate it when my favourite couples break up. It makes it less and less realistic to me that there can ever be a fairytale story… 
Singles again for Lleyton and Kim
By Bronwyn Hurrell
October 23, 2004
LLEYTON Hewitt was nursing a broken heart last night after Kim Clijsters dumped him over the telephone.
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Hewitt, holidaying in the Northern Territory with close friend and Adelaide Football Club premiership hero Andrew McLeod, is understood to be bewildered and devastated.
The couple was to be married in Australia in February with a celebration following in Belgium. But Clijsters said a wedding is now “out of the question”.
“Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt have mutually decided to end their relationship,” Clijsters said on her website yesterday.
“Private reasons compelled the couple to end their relationship and logically following an eventual wedding is out of the question.”
On the website it said “as every other couple whose relationship has come to an end” neither wished to speak publicly about it.
“Both distance themselves also from gossip in such situations,” the statement read.
Two wedding ceremonies had been planned to satisfy the wishes of parents Glynn and Cherilyn Hewitt and Leo and Els Clijsters.
Hewitt, 23, proposed to Clijsters, 21, aboard a Sydney Harbour cruise last year.
The two former No 1 tennis players have been together for more than four years.
They met at the Australian Open in 2000.
Reports surfaced earlier in the year that all was not well in the Hewitt camp, with relations between Clijsters and her future mother-in-law strained.
Hewitt and Clijsters’ wedding had also been announced via the Belgian’s website. “The beautiful love story will have its logical extension with a marriage in February in Australia.”
Hewitt, whose career peaked with US Open and Wimbledon titles in 2001 and 2002, lost in the US Open final to Roger Federer last month. Clijsters reached No 1 last year but has recently been troubled by a wrist injury.
The Daily Telegraph