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Top 10 Most Attractive and Hottest Women Tennis Players in the World
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 Sabine Lisicki: Sabine
Lisicki is a German professional tennis player. She was born in Troisdorf.
Lisicki has won three WTA singles tournaments in her career and one doubles
tournament in 2011. She reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 and 2012 Wimbledon
Championships
and the semifinals of the 2011 Wimbledon Championships. She achieved her career
high rank of world number 12 on 21 May 2012. After struggling with injuries in
2010, Lisicki
rebounded in 2011 and re-entered the top 100 of the world rankings. She is only
the second woman in Wimbledon history to make it to the semifinals while
entering the
tournament as a wildcard.
Since 2004 Lisicki has trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in
Bradenton, Florida, USA, where she is sponsored and managed by IMG. She is
coached by her father, who
studied sport science in Wrocław and Cologne.
Lisicki had a successful year in 2007 on the ITF circuit and climbed from World
No. 497 to World No. 198 in the WTA rankings. She won two titles, one in Jersey
and the other in
Toronto, Canada. She defeated top-seed Katie O'Brien on 2 August 2007 at the
Odlum Brown Vancouver Open.
In 2006, Lisicki competed at the 2006 Sunfeast Open � Singles Qualifying in
Kolkata where she crushed Ragini Vimal 6�1, 6�0 in the first round, but lost in
the qualifying round to
Sanaa Bhambri of India.
Lisicki's first tournament in 2012 was the 2012 ASB Classic Tournament where she
was the number 1 seed. In the first round, she defeated Virginie Razzano 6�4,
6�4. In the
second round, she defeated Mona Barthel 7�6, 3�6, 6�3. In the quarterfinal, she
faced Angelique Kerber, 2011 US Open semi-finalist, and was losing 4�6, before
retiring, due to a
back injury, in the second set at a score of 3�4. In doubles, she entered with
Chinese player Peng Shuai and they won their first round match against Sara
Errani and Roberta Vinci
6�2, 6�3. Both the Italians would go on to the Australian Open in four weeks
time. In the second round, they pulled out due to the injury picked up by
Lisicki in the quarterfinal of
the singles tournament against Angelique Kerber.
Lisicki next entered the 2012 Apia International Sydney where she was unseeded.
Before the first round of the tournament began, she pulled out with her recent
back injury and
gave her place to Lucky Loser, Alexandra Dulgheru.
Sabine Lisicki next competed in the Australian Open where she was the fourteenth
seed. In the first round, she faced Swiss Stefanie V�gele and beat her 6�2, 4�6,
6�4. In the
second round, she defeated Shahar Pe'er 6�1, 6�2. In the third round, she beat
eighteenth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 2�6, 6�4, 6�2. She was defeated by Russian
Maria
Sharapova 6�3 2�6 3�6. Lisicki took the first set, winning six consecutive games
after being down 0�3, but was unable to match Sharapova in the following two
sets.
At the 2012 Fed Cup, Lisicki played for Germany alongside Julia G�rges,
Anna-Lena Gr�nefeld and Angelique Kerber. She started off the meeting between
Germany and the Czech
Republic by facing Iveta Bene�ov�. She lost the match by a score of 6�2, 4�6,
2�6. In her second match, she faced Wimbledon Champion Petra Kvitov� and also
lost 7�6, 4�6,
1�6. Germany lost the meeting by a score of 1�4.
Her next tournament was supposed to be the 2012 Open GDF Suez where she was to
be the fifth seed. She pulled out before the tournament began with a viral
illness.
Lisicki then competed in the 2012 Qatar Ladies Open where she was the ninth
seed. In the first round she met compatriot and the unseeded Angelique Kerber
and lost 6�4, 4�6,
1�6 to continue a losing streak dating back to the fourth round of the
Australian Open. In doubles, she was the fourth seed along with Russian Maria
Kirilenko. They received a bye
into the second round. There they met Andreja Klepač and Alicja Rosolska. They
beat them by a score of 6�2, 4�6, [10�8]. In the third round they met fifth
seeds Nuria
Llagostera Vives and Anastasia Rodionova. They lost the first set 4�6, and in
the second set, Llagostera Vives and Rodionova took an early 3�1 lead, but
Lisicki and Kirilenko were
able to even the score by winning the following two games. The two teams swapped
a break of serve to bring the score to 4�4. The teams held serve and brought the
set to a
tiebreak. Lisicki and Kirilenko won 7�3 to level the score at 1 set each. In the
third set, they lost at a score of [8�10] and hence lost the match.
Lisicki's next tournament was the 2012 Dubai Tennis Championships, where she was
supposed to face fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round. However,
after second
seed Petra Kvitov� withdrew, she became the ninth seed and received Kvitov�'s
bye into the second round. There she met Iveta Bene�ov�, defeating her 6�3, 6�3.
In the
quarterfinals, she faced the fifth seed, Agnieszka Radwańska, losing 2�6, 1�6.
Lisicki's next competition was the 2012 Indian Wells tournament, where she was
the eleventh seed. She received a bye into the second round, where she faced
Spaniard Lourdes
Dom�nguez Lino, losing 1�6, 4�6. In doubles, she competed with compatriot Julia
G�rges. They beat Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears by a score of
6�2, 6�7,
[10�7]. The two German pros next faced Czech pair and 2011 French Open champions
Lucie Hradeck� and Andrea Hlav�čkov�, losing 2�6, 4�6.
Lisicki knocked out world number one and current French Open Champion, Maria
Sharapova, in the fourth round of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships before losing
in the
quarter-finals
Lisicki next went to the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open, where she was the twelfth
seed. She got a bye to the second round where she faced Sofia Arvidsson. Lisicki
won 6�3, 6�2. She
faced Peng Shuai in the third round. She won 6�4, 7�5 and then faced Li Na in
the fourth round. There Lisicki lost the match 6�3, 4�6, 2�6.
At the 2012 Family Circle Cup, Lisicki was the sixth seed. She received a bye
into the second round. There she faced lucky loser Andrea Hlav�čkov�, winning
2�6, 6�3, 6�4. She
faced qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova in the third round and won 7�5, 6�4. In the
quarterfinal, she faced Serena Williams. Behind 1�4 to her opponent, Lisicki
fell and injured her left
ankle. She retired from the match in tears, sending Serena to the semis. In
doubles, she paired with 2012 Australian Open women's doubles champion Vera
Zvonareva. They faced
top seeds Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond and lost 2�6, 2�6.
As a result of the fall in her quarterfinal match, Lisicki was forced to the
sideline at the Fed Cup World Group Play-off tie against Australia. She was also
forced to pull out of the
2012 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, from which she was defending a quarterfinal spot
in singles and the doubles title which she won with Samantha Stosur. Lisicki
also missed the
2012 Mutua Madrid Open, a Premier Mandatory tournament.
After nearly a month off the tour, Lisicki returned as the twelfth seed in the
2012 Internazionali BNL d'Italia. She faced Marina Erakovic in the first round,
where she lost 6�7(4�7),
6�4, 3�6. Traveling next to her home country for the 2012 Internationaux de
Strasbourg, where she was the top seed, Lisicki again experienced a first round
upset, losing to
Pauline Parmentier 4�6, 4�6. Sabine then traveled to Paris to play the second
Grand Slam of the year, the French Open, where she was the twelfth seed. On the
red clay of Roland
Garros, Lisicki lost 4�6, 3�6 to American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Lisicki started her summer grass court season by defending her title in the 2012
AEGON Classic. As the second seed she received a bye into the second round,
where she lost 3�6,
4�6 to Urszula Radwańska. This set Lisicki up with a 5 match losing streak going
into the 2012 Wimbledon Championships. In the first round she beat unseeded
Petra Martić at a
score of 6�4, 6�2, breaking the losing streak and putting her into the second
round, where she faced Serb qualifier Bojana Jovanovski. Lisicki won the match
3�6, 6�2, 8�6 to set
up a third round tie with Sloane Stephens, where she again faced a tight match,
pulling through with a score of 7�6(7�5), 1�6, 6�2. In the fourth round she beat
top seed Maria
Sharapova, to whom she had lost in the semi-finals the previous year, by the
score of 6�4, 6�3. In the subsequent quarterfinals round Lisicki once again met
fellow German
Angelique Kerber. Having lost the previous 4 meetings between the German stars,
Lisicki proceeded to lose the first set 3�6. Lisicki rallied in the second set
to take it in a tiebreak;
in this second set Lisicki saved 2 match points. Some observers felt Kerber was
visibly frustrated during the start of the third set, but Lisicki proved
ultimately unable to take the
match. At one point Lisicki was serving for the match, but Kerber went on the
take the third set, and the match, by a score of 3�6, 7�6(9�7), 5�7,dropping
Sabine Lisicki back
down to a world ranking of 18.
Lisicki entered the 2012 Mercury Insurance Open as the fifth seed but pulled out
with an abdominal injury. She went straight back to London to prepare for the
2012 Summer
Olympics. She entered the singles where she was seeded fifteenth, the doubles
with Angelique Kerber where they were seeded fifth and the mixed doubles with
Christopher Kas
where they were unseeded. In the singles, she beat Ons Jabeur 4�6, 6�0, 7�5 and
Yaroslava Shvedova 4�6, 6�3, 7�5 in the first and second rounds respectively.
She lost to
Maria Sharapova 7�6(10�8), 4�6, 3�6 in the third round despite winning the first
set and leading 4�2 in the second. In the doubles, Lisicki and Kerber beat
British pair Laura
Robson and Heather Watson in the first round after losing the first set whilst
taking only eleven points and going 4�2 down in the second set. They came back
to win 1�6, 6�4,
6�3. In the second round they lost to Venus and Serena Williams 2�6, 5�7. In the
mixed doubles, Lisicki and Kas beat second seeds Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber in
the first round
7�6(7�5), 6�7(5�7), 10�5 then beat Daniele Bracciali and Roberta Vinci in the
quarter final 4�6, 7�6(7�2), 10�7. In the semi final, they lost to Andy Murray
and Laura Robson
1�6, 7�6(9�7), 7�10. In the bronze medal match, they lost to third seeds Mike
Bryan and Lisa Raymond 3�6, 6�4, 10�4.
Lisicki moved on to the 2012 Rogers Cup in Montreal. She was fifteenth seed in
singles falling in her opening match to Carla Su�rez Navarro at a score of 6�3,
3�6, 4�6. In
doubles she made it to the quarterfinals partnering Peng Shuai. They beat sixth
seeds Iveta Bene�ov� and Barbora Z�hlavov�-Str�cov� and Natalie Grandin and
Vladim�ra Uhl�řov�
in the first and second rounds respectively. They were forced to pull out of the
competition at 5�6 against top seeds Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber as a result
of Lisicki getting a
left abdominal injury.
Lisicki entered the 2012 US Open as the 16th seed, but she was upset in the
first round by Romania's Sorana C�rstea, 4�6, 6�2, 6�2. In doubles, Lisicki
again partnered with Peng
Shuai. They beat Laura Robson and Shahar Pe'er in the first round, twelfth seeds
Anastasia Rodionova and Galina Voskoboeva in the second and sixth seeds Elena
Vesnina and
Ekaterina Makarova in the third. They lost to eventual finalists Andrea
Hlav�čkov� and Lucie Hradeck� in the quarter-finals.
Lisicki's next tournament was in Japan at the 2012 Toray Pan Pacific Open. In
singles, she started with a first round loss against British qualifier Heather
Watson 6�4, 7�6(7�3). In
doubles, she partnered with world number 3, Lisa Raymond. They face Monica
Niculescu and Alicja Rosolska, both of whom have recently lost in WTA doubles
finals. Lisicki and
Raymond won 6�3, 6�1. In their quarter-final match with alternates Darija Jurak
and Katalin Marosi, they won 6�4, 6�2. They now face either third seeds Zheng
Jie and Katarina
Srebotnik or Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears for a place in the final.
Lisicki next participated at the China Open, but she was defeated in the second
round by the eventual champion Victoria Azarenka. She next moved to Linz where
she lost in the
first round to Patricia Mayr-Achleitner. Lisicki finished her season losing in
the first round of the 2012 BGL Luxembourg Open to Kirsten Flipkens 6�3, 3�6,
1�6.
Her parents emigrated to West Germany from Poland in 1979; her father, Dr.
Richard Lisicki, is of German and Polish descent, and her mother, Elisabeth, of
Polish. They went to
Germany being part of the German minority in Poland ("Sp�taussiedler") Her
father, who introduced her to the sport at the age of 7, is her coach and her
mother, Elizabeth, is a
painter specializing in ceramics. Lisicki currently lives in Bradenton, Florida.
She is fluent in German, English and Polish. Her off-court interests include
reading, music and athletics.
Her official website: http://www.sabinelisicki.com/
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Dated 05 December 2012
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