Former world female tennis No. 1 Kim Clijsters, 24, who retired last Masy, and the U.S. basketball player Brian Lynch were married in a secret in Belgium early morning ceremony on Friday, news reports said.
The civil ceremony was officiated by Jaak Gabriels, the mayor of the northern Belgian town of Bree, who confirmed to local media that the ceremony had taken place at 6 a.m. the Associated Press reported.
The wedding was made one day earlier than scheduled as she was known to be pregnant, her spokesman said, adding that the baby is due for the end of January next year.
"This has been organized on the request from Kim, to keep the ceremony as low key as possible,” Gabriels said.
Clijsters’s official website confirmed that the couple was married on Friday, adding a reception was planned for Saturday.
Clijsters became the first Belgian woman tennis star to place top of the world ranking in 2003 for 19 weeks. She retired in May as she continued to suffer injuries in a deep slump, and to be eager to wage a new life, news reports said.