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Sabine fights into Australian Open round of Sixteen

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:07:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki won yesterday against Svetlana Kuznetsova 2-6 6-4 6-2 in her 3rd round in sunny Melbourne. After struggling in the first set and beginning of the 2nd set where she just didn't find her game at a score of 2-6 1-3 she turned the game around and fought back with amazing ground shots and good services. Kuznetsova didn't give up and hit some very hard to get angles, but Sabine responded well and turned her 4th match point to reach the australian open 4th round for her first time.

There world no. 4 Maria Sharapova waits for her, beiing in top form and having lost no more then 5 games until now in the tournament. The match takes place tomorrow in the night session at Rod Laver Arena, the Center Court of the Australian Open, at 7:30 pm local time in Melbourne.

Sabine reaches 3rd round of Australian Open

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:07:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki beat Stephanie Voegele 6-2 4-6 6-4 and Shahar Peer 6-1 6-2 in her first two rounds of the Australian Open 2012. In the first round against the swiss number one Voegele it was very windy what caused the ball often not to fly as intended, and made the service game for both players very hard. But Sabine kept fighting and finally won in three sets. Today against Peer, she could play her services as usually, and started with a 3-0 lead. She didn't give the israelian player a chance to adjust to the game but forced her game onto her opponent to finish the match in less then an hour. Sabines next opponent will be either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Sloane Stephens.

Ready for Aussie Open

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:49:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki practiced for the first time in Melbourne yesterday. She had no pain and is getting fully ready for Aussie Open! She had a good start into the season in Auckland where she reached the Quarterfinals when Sabine had to retire due to a muscle injury. She had to skip Sydney to get fully recovered and is now ready for the first grand slam of the year.

Berlins Champion of the Year

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:44:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki was pronounced as Champion of the year 2011 of Berlin. That is a great honor in the olympic city where many european, world and olympic champions come from. She is the first tennis player to receive the award after Boris Becker back in 1985. In the last couple of years Britta Steffen and Claudia Pechstein dominated the womens Champion title.

WTA-Comeback Player Of The Year

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:03:00 +0000

WTA awarded Sabine Lisicki as Comeback-Player Of The Year 2011. Player of the Year honors went to Wimbledon-Winner Petra Kvitova.

In 2009 Sabine broke almost the top 20 of the WTA ranking after winning her first title in Charleston and reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, but had a long break after an injury in 2010. It was just in April of this year, when she stroke back from position 218 with two titles in Birmingham and Dallas and her semi-final in Wimbledon and finished her comeback ranked 15 at the end of this years season.

WTA-Rank 15 at end of 2011

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:51:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki finished this years season on rank 15 of the womens tennis association. She gained over 200 places since april of 2011.

Back in April Sabine was at a ranking of #218 and had to play Challengers and Qualification Matches before winning her 2nd and 3rd WTA titels at Birmingham and Dallas. Together with her performance at wimbledon where she got stopped by Maria Sharapova in the semi-finals and getting into the 4th round of the US Open she made it back to the top of womens tennis.

Sabine at Tournament of Champions in Bali

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:06:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki has been invited to the Tournament of Champions in Bali thanks to her winning the tournaments in Birmingham and Dallas earlier this year. She reached the semi-finals there when she had to forfeit due to pain in her back.

In the first round she beat slovakian Daniela Hantuchova in a thrilling match 7-5 6-2. After being 0-4 down in the third set of the semi-finals, she pulled out of the tournament against Anabel Medina Garrigues from Spain. Only the best ranked women that won an international wta tournament this year get invited to participate in Bali. After 2009 Sabine was there for the second time.

Sabine reaches final 8 of US Open

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:06:00 +0000

Sabine Lisicki got into the round of 16 on the US Open, where she got stopped by number two of the world Vera Zwonareva from Russia. That was her best result in Flushing Meadows, New York and got her further back to the top of the world.

On her way to the final eight Sabine defeated Alona Bondarenko and the american wildcard Irina Falconi both in straigt sets. Unfortunately her match against Venus Williams in the second round was cancelled in the last minute when the multiple grand slam winner had to forfeit due to injury. Get well soon, Venus!

Sabine wins Texas Tennis Open

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:06:00 +0000

By beating Aravane Rezai from France 6-2 6-1, Sabine won the Texas Tennis Open in Dallas and got her 3rd WTA tour title. She lost only 13 Games in five Matches.

Sabine had an incredible run playing better with each round. She upset former top 20 and qualifier Aravane Rezai in straight sets after just 50 minutes. Yesterday she beat Irina-Camelia Begu from Roumania 6-0 6-1 in the semi-finals.

Now Sabine makes herself ready for the upcoming US Open in New York. She plays against Alona Bondarenko in the first round of the 4th and last grand slam in 2011.

Vote for Sabine at Xperia Hotshots

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:19:00 +0000

The Sony Xperia Hot Shots is about to be finished and now it's time to vote for the winner. Sabine is proud that she currently has the most facebook fans within the six young tennis girls and needs all of you to vote for her now!

http://www.facebook.com/xperiahotshots?sk=app_123063087773739

"It would mean a lot to me if you could take a minute and vote for me on here!" - she says with a smile and is very thankful for all of your support.

Sabine reaches Semifinals in Stanford

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:06:00 +0000

Sabine beat world no. 10 Samantha Stosur and no. 14 Agnieszka Radwanska on her way to the semi-finals at the Bank of the West Classic WTA Event in Stanford, California.

After defeating Simona Halep 6-1 6-2 on tuesday, Sabine served 13 Aces with just 3 Double Faults against no. 4 seed Samantha Stosur. She beat her doubles partner in straight sets 6-3 7-5 without being breaked. Tonight she had a very tough fight against no. 5 seed Agnieszka Radwanska to reach the semi-finals. She won the first set in the tie-break after 80 minutes of fighting just to lose the second set 2-6, but started great in the deciding set with a double-break to an early 4-1 lead and closed the set 6-2.

Next opponent in the semi-finals is either Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams who play in the forth quarterfinal tonight.

“LI NA & FRIENDS” Tennis Event in Wuhan

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:49:00 +0000

The city of Wuhan leadership and IMG announced that on December 17-18, 2011, Li Na will headline a special two-day tennis extravaganza in Wuhan, "Li Na & Friends", alongside new rival and rising star, Sabine Lisicki, who defeated Li in a thrilling contest at Wimbledon, as well as 14-time Grand Slam singles champion Pete Sampras and tennis heartthrob Carlos Moya, who like the hometown hero also owns a Roland Garros singles crown.

After fighting off two match points to defeat Li at Wimbledon, Germany's Lisicki is eagerly anticipating the exhibition. "I am delighted to have been included in the "Li Na & Friends" event. Li Na and I had one of the best quality matches of Wimbledon 2011 and it is always a pleasure to play a champion -- especially a reigning Grand Slam Champion like Li Na who is so friendly and professional, something all of China should be very proud of. To play singles and doubles in an event that also includes the great Pete Sampras will be an amazing experience. I understand we can expect thousands of people and a fantastic atmosphere and I really look forward to seeing you all in China -- and maybe even doing a little shopping, possibly with a little help from Li Na, at the end of the year!"

Sabine stuns crowd in Wimbledon

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:20:00 +0000

Sabine Lisickis stuns as she reached Wimbledon 2011 semi-finals. On her way there she beat no. 3 seed Na Li and no. 9 seed Marion Bartoli until she got stopped by no. 5 seed Maria Sharapova in two close sets. She entered the tournament with a wild-card which she got after reaching quarter-finals in 2009 and winning the Birmingham title three weeks ago - Sabine made sure to use that wild-card well and will be seeded in US Open after this stunning run. The crowd loved her.

In doubles, along with Samantha Stosur, Sabine reached the Wimbledon 2011 finals where they got stopped by no. 2 seeds and now Wimbledon doubles champions Peschke/Srebotnik after beating no. 1 seeds King/Shedova along their way to the finals.

Sabine wins 2nd Tour Title

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:20:00 +0000

Longines Press Release

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:20:00 +0000

Paris / Saint-Imier, 1st June 2011 – In line with the values it has always upheld, Longines, official partner and timekeeper for the French Open, strengthens its support to the young tennis talents. The famous Swiss watchmaker is looking to the future by organising the Longines Future Tennis Aces, a tournament aimed at promoting sport and encouraging the values of respect, fair play and tolerance which it holds dear. The draw of the tournament has been made by tennis star and Longines Ambassadress of Elegance Francesca Schiavone on the rooftop of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris. The brand presented the Longines Rising Tennis Stars, a program that aims to support young tennis talents in the development of their careers.

Longines can boast a long-term commitment to the world of international top-class tennis. Apart from being the official partner and timekeeper for the French Open at Roland-Garros, Longines is also present at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, as well as at the Rakuten Japan Open in Tokyo, the oldest tournament of the ATP tour in Asia.

Longines is thrilled to count two of the most famous tennis legends among its Ambassadors of Elegance, namely Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf, and to support their respective foundations. The involvement of the brand also includes a partnership with the new queen of Italian tennis, Francesca Schiavone, as a Longines Ambassadress of Elegance.

Longines is also looking to the future of tennis. As such, the brand is organizing the Longines Future Tennis Aces tournament and decided to sponsor promising youngsters from every corner of the world with Longines Rising Tennis Stars. This program aims to support young tennis talents aged between 17 and 21 years old in the development of their careers.

The Longines Rising Tennis Stars

Grigor Dimitrov
Grigor Dimitrov is the number one tennis player from Bulgaria at 20 years old. Ranked No. 64 on the ATP Tour rankings, Grigor has won four ATP Challenger tournaments (three ATP Challenger tournaments back-to-back in 2010) and most recently reached the quarterfinals at the ATP 250 tournament in Munich (Germany).
As a junior professional, Grigor was the Wimbledon Junior Champion (2008) and US Open Junior Champion (2008). He reached a career high junior ranking of No. 3 in the world.
Born and raised in Haskovo (Bulgaria) Grigor learned to play tennis at the age of five. He trains at the Mouratoglou Academy outside of Paris, France and is coached by Peter McNamara. His ambition is to be No. 1 in the world.

Tiago Fernandes
Tiago Fernandes is the number one tennis player from Brazil under 21 years old. He is currently ranked ATP No. 392 at 18 years old and is internationally recognized as the next up-and-coming tennis sensation from South America. Tiago’s professional accomplishments include reaching the finals at the ATP Challenger in Recife (Brazil) in 2011 and the semifinals in three ITF Futures events in Brazil.
As a junior professional, Tiago reached a career high junior ranking of No. 1. Tiago was the first Brazilian player to be ranked ITF Junior No. 1 in the world. His junior career highlights include, Australian Open Junior Champion (2010), Roland Garros Junior Quarterfinalist (2010), US Open Junior Quarterfinalist (2009) and five ITF Junior titles. Tiago was born in Maceio (Brazil) and is coached by Larri Passos.

Tsung-Hua Yang
Tsung-Hua Yang (Taiwan) is the first player from Taiwan to be awarded with the title of number one junior player in the world. He is currently ranked ATP No. 302 at 20 years old. Yang competes on the ATP Challenger Tour and the ATP World Tour, both in singles and doubles. In 2008, he was the winner of the Junior Grand Slam at Roland-Garros and he was the first from Asia to win the 2008 Junior World Champion Award. Besides these achievements he defends his country as a member of the Chinese Taipei Davis Cup Team. Yang represented Chinese Taipei and won two gold medals at the 2010 Asian Games, in Guangzhou (China). Last year, he was awarded as Athlete of the year 2010 for Chinese Taipei.

Sabine Lisicki
Sabine Lisicki (Germany) was introduced to tennis by her father at the age of 7 and quickly realized she had a natural talent and love for the sport. After beginning her career on the ITF Circuit in 2004, Sabine rapidly established herself as a major force in the women’s junior game. Her breakthrough season came in 2008, and was highlighted by reaching her first WTA Tour final.
She made history during the 2009 Family Circle Cup, by becoming the lowest ranked player ever to win the title in Charleston (USA). Sabine, who is coached by her father Richard and trains at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton (USA) is known for her tenacious spirit on the court. She reached a career high of WTA No. 22 in August 2009. An injury in March 2010 took her out for 7 months. She came back on track lately with good tournaments in Miami, Charleston and Stuttgart.

Ryan Harrison
Ryan Harrison (USA) began playing at the age of 2. He is one of the youngest ever to win an ATP Tour match. He lives in Bradenton (USA) and trains at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. Ryan considers grass as his favorite surface. He reached a career-high No. 7 in world junior rankings in April 2008. Ranked No. 119 on the ATP Tour rankings, he reached the Fourth Round of Indian Wells this year where he beat Chardy, Garcia-Lopez and Raonic before losing to Federer. Ryan won the Singles and Doubles titles at the Honolulu Challenger in January 2011. This was his first singles title at the Challenger level.

Roberto Carballes Baena
Roberto Carballes Baena (Spain) is 18 years old. He is currently ranked ATP No. 446 and No. 11 in the world on ITF Junior World ranking. His favorite surface is clay. Roberto lives in Barcelona and his coach is Miguel Sanchez. So far this year, he played 11 tournaments and won 2 titles in Spain.

Sai-Sai Zheng
Sai-Sai Zheng (China) represented her country in the inaugural youth Olympic in Singapore in 2010 where she won the gold medal in the double and the silver medal in the single tournament. She considers hard as her favorite surface. She is currently ranked No. 275 on the WTA Tour, where as she was ranked No. 650 at the beginning of the year. She is currently one of the highest ranked at the age of 17.

Roland Garros 2011

Thu, 26 May 2011 11:20:00 +0000

Hi everyone,
I had a great tournament and a very good match against Vera. Unfortunately it didn´t go my way but I still have a lot of positive things that I take out of this match! I´m sad that my body let me down. Doctors recently discovered that I´m intolerante to Gluten- meaning I can´t eat e.g. pasta. One of the biggest energy sources...

My body needs to adjust to the big change and needs some time. Its good that we found out and it will only make life better in the long run! Thanks for all the nice messages! I´m ok and excited to continue my good play on the grass.

A good start into 2011

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:45:00 +0000

Sabine had a great start into the new year winning 4 of her first 5 matches in Auckland. She went through the qualifying at the tournament in Auckland. On the way to the Main Draw she beat Dubois, M. Lucic and S. Mirza and only lost to the second seed Wickmayer in 3 sets in the second round. Now she's preparing in Melbourne for the Australian Open.

pre-Christmas time

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Hi everybody. As some of you might know I´ve been on the Bahamas to help Mark Knowles with his charity event to raise money for children. It has been a very good couple of days. We raised more money than ever before at that event so everybody was happy. I´m glad to be in a position to help and put a smile on the kids face.

Now I´m back in Florida. It is surprisingly cold here! I had a little cold but I´m good again and back on the court! I had a very good session with Nick yesterday. We´re getting my game ready for next year. We also did a fun thing today by taking the gym stuff outside and simply do my gym workout outdoors It was a good change. By doing things like that it never gets boring!

I will be going back to Germany to spend Christmas there. I´ve also been asked to do a drawing at the Handball game just before a match of “our” team- “The Füchse” from Berlin. The stadium is suppose to be sold out so I think it will be great and I hope to make a good drawing

Hope everybody is doing great and enjoying the pre-Christmas time!

Sabine

Last Weekend

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Hi everybody, I had another tough week of training in Florida. I´m feeling fitter from week to week. On friday my manager Olivier and his wife Karen had a wedding party here in Sarasota. Lots of fellow players were here (Filip Krajinovic, Mario Ancic, Yuki Bhambri, Taylor Dent, Jordan Cox, Kei Nishikori) to celebrate. It was a great weekend but tomorrow it´s back to work :) Hope everybody had a good weekend!

Sabine

Interview with rbb

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:05:00 +0000

Sunday evening Sabine goes to the live show „Sportplatz“. It will be shown on rbb (Rundfunkt Berlin-Brandenburg) between 10pm and 11pm.

Offseason

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Hi everybody, my Team and I have decided that I´ll practice the next few weeks. During the last few tournaments we saw what we need to work on and want to improve those aspects of my game! We´ve been working a lot on my fitness the past two weeks at the Olympic Training Center in Berlin. It´s been fun but hard as well. I did a test on the treadmill to see how I´m doing since I came back from my injury. I was happy to see that I´ve improved!

Last weekend I went to support my friend Britta Steffen at her first World Cup in a long time. It was a tough first competition for her coming in 4th and 6th place. Both of us are working hard to be back at our “old” form as quickly as possible though! Yesterday I went to the ice hockey game of the “Eisbären Berlin”. It was once again heaps of fun and great to relax a bit. Towards the end it was everything else but relaxing though…the game got so exciting that the penalty shooting had to decide who the winner of the night is. It was a nice evening after a hard week of training. Talk to you soon.

Sabine

After the US Open

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Dear Fans, the 2weeks in New York put me another big step forward. I won my first match since my comeback and in the second round of the Us Open I lost to Vera Zvonareva who is playing in the finals now. I had my chances in the second set where I really played well but unfortunately I couldn't convert them. I left New York with a smile on my face and a lot more confidence in the bag then before! I was in Florida for a couple of days and yesterday we flew to Quebec City where I'm playing my next tournament! I'm looking forward to another week and another opportunity for me! Thanks for all your support in New York!

Sabine

Comeback in Cincinnati

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Hi Everybody, I´ve been working very hard in the last couple of weeks to be ready to come back! This week I´ve played many practice sets and matches and I feel good! Cincinnati is going to be my first tournament back and I´m very happy about it. I´ve always enjoyed my time there. It´s a great tournament with a great facility and good crowds! I´m really looking forward to playing my first tournament!

No Portoroz tournament!

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:05:00 +0000

I wanted to fly to Portoroz on Friday to play my first tournament in months . Prior to that I went to see my doctor to make a last check. Then he said that my ankle isn´t strong enough yet to play a tournament without taking any risks.

I´m terribly disappointed because I was really looking forward to playing on the tour again. Everything was booked, my bags were packed and then you get to hear this. It´s another bump in the road and I have to stay strong and keep working hard to improve my stability in the ankle so that I can play soon on the tour with out risks!

Comeback Tournament

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Sabine has set her comeback tournament: Portoroz, July 19th. After Portoroz, Sabine will return to the USA where she will play the American Hardcourt season. Keep reading Sabine’s blogs where she writes about her weekly updates.