Sabine lisiki teniss player

Sabine Katharina Lisicki (born 22 September 1989 in Troisdorf) is a professional German tennis player. She achieved her career high rank of #22 on 3 August 2009. She lives in Berlin and Bradenton, Florida. Lisicki is the daughter of first-generation Polish immigrants.

Lisicki trains at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, USA. She's never had a professional coach in her life.

She had a successful year in 2007 on the ITF circuit and climbed from #497 to #198 in WTA rankings. She won two titles, one in Jersey, UK, and the other in Toronto, Canada.

At the 2008 Australian Open, her first Grand Slam tournament, she defeated the #16 seeded player, Dinara Safina (7–6, 4–6, 6–2) and Mariya Koryttseva (6–1, 7–5) to reach the third round as a qualifier. She lost her third round match to Caroline Wozniacki (4–6, 6–4, 6–3).

Sabine next reached the fourth round of the Miami 2008 Sony Ericsson Open, a Tier I event, where she sensationally defeated sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze (WTA 6) in straight sets 7–5, 6–1. However, she was soundly beaten 6–3, 6–2, in the next round by Elena Dementieva (WTA 11).

Sabine lost in the first round to the 2007 runner up and the #11 seed Marion Bartoli 6–2, 6–4. With daylight fading on Center Court at the end of day one, she made a spirited comeback in the second set, with a powerful serve and some good groundstrokes, but was not good enough to convert important points.

After some moderate success, Lisicki reached her first WTA final at the Tashkent Open in October, which she lost 2–6 6–4 7–6 to the fellow teenager Sorana Cîrstea of Romania.

Lisicki started her year at the Hopman Cup in Perth where she defeated Australia's Casey Dellacqua 4–6, 6–2, 7–5 in her first singles match but lost the other two to Meghann Shaughnessy in three sets and Dominika Cibulková in straight sets.

Lisicki started the 2010 season by playing at the Hopman Cup for Germany. She won her single ties against Elena Dementieva and Laura Robson but lost to Yaroslava Shvedova. Partnering Philipp Kohlschreiber, they lost all their doubles matches. Therefore, Germany did not proceed to the finals.
Because of injury, Lisicki was then forced to pull out of tournaments at Ponte Vedra and Charleston. Because Lisicki was unable to defend her title at Charleston, her ranking fell to 42.
Lisicki missed Roland Garros and Wimbledon, but, due to a protected rank, will stay inside the world's top 100.
Coming into the 2010 US Open ranked world number 96, Lisicki made quick work of American Coco Vandeweghe 6-1 6-0 in the first round. She lost to 7th seed Vera Zvonareva in the second round.