190 Facts About Sabine Lisicki

Sabine Katharina Lisicki is a German professional tennis player.

Sabine Lisicki rebounded in 2011 and won the Eastbourne Classic before entering the Wimbledon Championships as a wildcard and going on to reach the semifinals, where she lost to Maria Sharapova.

Sabine Lisicki followed that two months later by winning her third WTA tournament, the Texas Open.

Sabine Lisicki reached the final of the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Marion Bartoli.

In doubles, Sabine Lisicki won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in 2011 with Samantha Stosur and in 2013 with Mona Barthel and the 2014 Miami Open with coach Martina Hingis.

Sabine Lisicki reached the doubles final at Wimbledon in 2011 with Stosur and came fourth in the mixed-doubles event at the 2012 London Olympics with Christopher Kas.

Between 2014 and 2018, Sabine Lisicki held the world record for the fastest serve by a female tennis player.

Sabine Lisicki held the record for the most aces in a singles match, hitting 27 aces during her second-round encounter against Belinda Bencic at the 2015 Birmingham Classic, until it was surpassed by Kristyna Pliskova at the 2016 Australian Open.

Sabine Lisicki's parents emigrated to West Germany from Poland in 1979; her father, Dr Richard Sabine Lisicki, is of German and Polish descent and her mother, Elisabeth, of Polish.

Since 2004, Sabine Lisicki has trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where she is sponsored and managed by IMG.

Sabine Lisicki had to be driven across Europe in a car by her parents so that she could attend tournaments.

In 2006, Sabine Lisicki competed at the Sunfeast Open in Kolkata, where she defeated Ragini Vimal in the first, but lost in the final qualifying round to Sanaa Bhambri.

Sabine Lisicki competed in her first WTA Tour main-draw match when she was given a wildcard to play at the German Open.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the first round to Mara Santangelo, in three sets.

Sabine Lisicki had a successful year in 2007 on the ITF Circuit and climbed from world No 497 to No 198 in the WTA rankings.

Sabine Lisicki won two titles, one in Jersey and the other in Toronto.

Sabine Lisicki defeated top-seed Katie O'Brien at the Vancouver Open.

Sabine Lisicki lost her third round match to Caroline Wozniacki.

Sabine Lisicki next reached the fourth round of the Miami Open, a Tier I event, where she defeated sixth seeded Anna Chakvetadze in straight sets, but was defeated in the next round by Elena Dementieva.

At Wimbledon, Sabine Lisicki lost in the first round to the 2007 runner-up, 11th seed Marion Bartoli.

Sabine Lisicki started her year at the Hopman Cup in Perth where she advanced to the third round before losing to Dominika Cibulkova in straight sets.

At the Australian Open, Sabine Lisicki defeated the 30th seed Aleksandra Wozniak in the opening round before losing to Samantha Stosur in straight sets.

At the Cellular South Cup in Memphis, Sabine Lisicki reached the semifinals, defeating third seed Lucie Safarova on the way before losing to eventual winner Victoria Azarenka.

Sabine Lisicki then took part in the first Premier Mandatory tournament of the year in North America.

Sabine Lisicki had previously defeated second seeded Venus Williams in the third round and No 6 seed Marion Bartoli in the semifinals.

Sabine Lisicki then took part in Germany's Fed Cup World Group play-off win against China.

Sabine Lisicki defeated world No 16 Zheng Jie in the first singles match, and partnered with Anna-Lena Gronefeld to win the decisive doubles match.

At the French Open, Sabine Lisicki lost to Lucie Safarova in the first round.

On her first match on grass at the Eastbourne International, Sabine Lisicki lost to Samantha Stosur in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki played her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at Wimbledon, where she was beaten by world No 1, Dinara Safina.

On 3 September 2009, daytime, Rodionova's match point, Sabine Lisicki slipped while going to return a backhand and injured her left ankle.

Sabine Lisicki left the court in a wheelchair as Rodionova advanced to the third round.

The injury was a sprain, and Sabine Lisicki returned to her base in Florida for rehabilitation.

Sabine Lisicki lost her first round-robin match to Aravane Rezai, but won her second round-robin match against Melinda Czink.

Sabine Lisicki started the season by playing at the Hopman Cup for Germany.

Sabine Lisicki won her singles ties against Elena Dementieva and Laura Robson but lost to Yaroslava Shvedova.

Sabine Lisicki then played the Pattaya Open in Bangkok where she was the second seed and lost her second-round match to home player Tamarine Tanasugarn.

In both tournaments, Sabine Lisicki retired in the second round because of an ankle injury.

Sabine Lisicki had to learn how to walk again and faced suggestions that she should retire rather than risk further injury.

At Melbourne, Sabine Lisicki played the qualifying tournament and lost in the second round to Vesna Manasieva.

Sabine Lisicki lifted her form and reached the third round at the Miami Open, where she was defeated by Maria Sharapova.

At the Family Circle Cup, Sabine Lisicki reached the third round, but lost to Sania Mirza in two sets.

In doubles, Sabine Lisicki partnered with former world No 1 doubles player Samantha Stosur to win her first ever career doubles title.

At the Birmingham Classic, Sabine Lisicki reached the final where she defeated Daniela Hantuchova to win her second WTA Tour title.

Sabine Lisicki was the second wild-card entry to reach the women's semifinals in Wimbledon history.

In doubles, Sabine Lisicki partnered with Stosur and lost in the final.

At the Silicon Valley Classic, Sabine Lisicki beat fourth seed and doubles partner Samantha Stosur and fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, but fell to Serena Williams in the semifinals.

At the Cincinnati Open, Sabine Lisicki lost to Shahar Pe'er in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki then traveled to Dallas to compete in the inaugural Texas Open as the fifth seed.

Sabine Lisicki won her third title, defeating qualifier Aravane Rezai, having dropped no more than three games each match of the way to her victory.

Sabine Lisicki was scheduled to play Venus Williams in the second round, but Williams withdrew before it started due to her recent diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome.

Sabine Lisicki dispatched Irina Falconi to advance to the fourth round for the first time, before ultimately being defeated by second seed Vera Zvonareva.

At the China Open Sabine Lisicki defeated Zheng Saisai in straight sets but withdrew from her second round match against Kaia Kanepi.

Sabine Lisicki next entered the Sydney International where she was unseeded.

Sabine Lisicki next competed in the Australian Open where she was the 14th seed.

At the 2012 Fed Cup, Sabine Lisicki played for Germany alongside Julia Gorges, Anna-Lena Gronefeld and Angelique Kerber.

Sabine Lisicki started off the meeting between Germany and the Czech Republic by facing Iveta Benesova, a match in which she lost.

Sabine Lisicki pulled out before the tournament began with a viral illness.

Sabine Lisicki then competed at the Qatar Ladies Open where she was the ninth seed.

Sabine Lisicki next went to Miami, where she was the 12th seed.

Sabine Lisicki got a bye to the second round where she faced Sofia Arvidsson.

Sabine Lisicki won this match too and then faced Li Na in the fourth round.

At the Family Circle Cup, Sabine Lisicki was the sixth seed.

Sabine Lisicki faced qualifier Yaroslava Shvedova in the third round and won in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki retired from the match in tears, sending Serena into the semis.

Sabine Lisicki was forced to pull out of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, from which she was defending a quarterfinal spot in singles and the doubles title which she won with Sam Stosur.

Sabine Lisicki faced Marina Erakovic in the first round, where she lost.

Sabine Lisicki then traveled to Paris to play the French Open, where she was the 12th seed.

Sabine Lisicki started her summer grass-court season by defending her title at Eastbourne.

Sabine Lisicki won the match in three sets to set up a third round tie with Sloane Stephens, where she again faced a tight match, pulling through in the third set.

Sabine Lisicki rallied in the second set to take it in a tiebreak; in this second set Sabine Lisicki saved two match points.

Sabine Lisicki entered the Southern California Open as the fifth seed but pulled out with an abdominal injury.

Sabine Lisicki went straight back to London to prepare for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sabine Lisicki entered singles where she was seeded 15, and in mixed doubles with Christopher Kas where they were unseeded.

Sabine Lisicki was 15th seed in singles falling in her opening match to Carla Suarez Navarro.

Sabine Lisicki entered the US Open as the 16th seed, but she was upset in the first round by Sorana Cirstea.

Sabine Lisicki next participated at the China Open, but she was defeated in the second round by the eventual champion Victoria Azarenka.

Sabine Lisicki finished her season losing in the first round of the Luxembourg Open to Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the second round to world No 1, Victoria Azarenka.

Sabine Lisicki pulled out of the qualifying draw at Sydney with a virus.

Sabine Lisicki competed in the mixed doubles with Frederik Nielsen.

Sabine Lisicki downed Alexandra Panova in the second round and came back from a set down in the quarterfinals to beat Marina Erakovic.

Erakovic ran away with the first set and Sabine Lisicki retired from the final with illness.

Sabine Lisicki missed the Indian Wells Open with the same illness.

Sabine Lisicki returned in time to play at the Miami Open but lost in the first round to Simona Halep.

Sabine Lisicki started her clay-court season on the green clay at the Charleston Open.

Sabine Lisicki then travelled to Stuttgart for Germany's Fed Cup World Group Play-off tie against Serbia.

Sabine Lisicki was picked to play the doubles rubber with Anna-Lena Gronefeld against Vesna Dolonc and Aleksandra Krunic.

Sabine Lisicki stayed in Stuttgart to compete at the Porsche Grand Prix.

Sharapova ultimately won in straight sets, with Sabine Lisicki putting up a fight in the second set.

From Madrid, Sabine Lisicki went to Rome to play at the Italian Open.

Sabine Lisicki then went to Paris for the second major of the year.

Sabine Lisicki defeated Sofia Arvidsson in the first round and pulled off a straight sets win against Spaniard Maria Teresa Torro Flor in the second round, reaching the third round of the French Open for the first time in her career.

Sabine Lisicki started her grass court season by playing at the Birmingham Classic.

At the Wimbledon Championships, Sabine Lisicki, seeded 23rd, beat Francesca Schiavone in the first round, Elena Vesnina and 14th seed Samantha Stosur in the second and third round.

Sabine Lisicki won in three sets, marking the fourth time in her last four participations that she knocked out the reigning French Open champion at Wimbledon.

Sabine Lisicki defeated Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, reaching the Wimbledon semifinals for the second time in her career.

Sabine Lisicki beat Agnieszka Radwanska in a three set semifinal in two hours and 18 minutes to advance to her first Grand Slam final, thereby becoming the first German woman to reach a major final since Steffi Graf at Wimbledon in 1999, and the first German player of either gender to reach a Grand Slam singles final since Rainer Schuttler at the 2003 Australian Open.

Sabine Lisicki then played at New Haven, beating Kristina Mladenovic in the first round before losing to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the second.

Sabine Lisicki then played the US Open as the 16th seed, where she defeated qualifier Vera Dushevina in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki then won her second match against Paula Ormaechea before losing to Ekaterina Makarova in round three.

Sabine Lisicki missed most of the Asian swing, but competed at the China Open as the 13th seed.

Sabine Lisicki then played the Osaka Open, again beating Scheepers in the first round, but was forced to withdraw from the tournament with a left hip injury before her second-round match.

Sabine Lisicki ended her 2013 season on a high by reaching the semi-finals of the Luxembourg Open.

Sabine Lisicki beat Donna Vekic, Tereza Smitkova and Karin Knapp in her opening three matches.

Sabine Lisicki won the last set to love in all three of these matches.

Sabine Lisicki finished her year ranked as world No 15.

At the Australian Open, it was announced that Sabine Lisicki would bring in Martina Hingis as a coach.

At the Pattaya Open, Sabine Lisicki struggled to overcome Donna Vekic in the first round in three sets.

Sabine Lisicki then endured a poor run across the North American swing, losing in her first match in Indian Wells to Aleksandra Wozniak.

In Indian Wells, Sabine Lisicki competed in the doubles draw playing alongside coach Martina Hingis.

Sabine Lisicki looked to carry momentum from the Miami title by going to Charleston and playing at the Family Circle Cup.

Sabine Lisicki entered the tournament as the fourth seed and received a bye in the first round of play.

Sabine Lisicki lost to the eventual champion Petkovic, managing to score only one game in the whole match.

Sabine Lisicki did not participate in Germany's Fed Cup semifinal victory over Australia, moving from the outdoor green clay of Charleston to the indoor red clay of Stuttgart.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the opening round to ninth seed Ana Ivanovic.

Sabine Lisicki then competed at the Madrid Open where she was the 15th seed.

Sabine Lisicki fell in the third round to Simona Halep in three sets.

Sabine Lisicki reached the second round at Roland Garros where she retired against compatriot Mona Barthel after injuring her wrist.

At the Rogers Cup in Montreal the following week, Sabine Lisicki defeated former world No 5, Sara Errani, in the first round in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki defeated Monica Niculescu and Grace Min to reach the quarterfinals.

Sabine Lisicki won her fourth WTA title by defeating Karolina Pliskova, her first singles title in more than three years.

Sabine Lisicki received a wildcard at the Pan Pacific Open but lost to Casey Dellacqua in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki lost to Karin Knapp in three sets in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki was selected to play the doubles tie alongside Anna-Lena Gronefeld.

Sabine Lisicki had a rough start to the year, losing in the first rounds at the Brisbane International, the Sydney International and the Australian Open, losing to Shvedova, Suarez Navarro, and Mladenovic respectively.

Sabine Lisicki finally picked up her first win of the year in Dubai beating Monica Niculescu before bowing out to Ana Ivanovic.

Sabine Lisicki continued winning by beating Sara Errani and Caroline Garcia to advance to the quarterfinals.

Sabine Lisicki lost to Jelena Jankovic in the semifinals in three sets despite leading by a set and a break.

Sabine Lisicki carried her good form over to Miami where she beat fellow countrywoman Julia Gorges, Ana Ivanovic, and Sara Errani to advance to her second Premier Mandatory quarterfinal in a row.

Sabine Lisicki lost to eventual champion Serena Williams in the quarterfinals in three sets.

Sabine Lisicki then played for Germany in the semifinals against Russia at the Fed Cup where she lost to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in three sets despite having a match point in the second set.

Sabine Lisicki played in the doubles with Andrea Petkovic but the pair lost to Pavlyuchenkova and Elena Vesnina to give Russia the win and a place in the final.

Sabine Lisicki began on clay in Stuttgart and was handed her first career double bagel loss to Zarina Diyas in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki then played at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia and picked up her first clay win by beating Sloane Stephens before losing to Timea Bacsinszky in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki then played at the Nuremberg Cup and lost in the second round to Lara Arruabarrena in three sets despite having a match point in the third set.

Sabine Lisicki then played at the French Open as the 20th seed.

Sabine Lisicki beat Monica Puig in the first round in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki then beat 2009 champion Magdalena Rybarikova and 2013 champion Daniela Hantuchova to advance to the semifinals.

Sabine Lisicki lost to fellow countrywoman and eventual champion Angelique Kerber, in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki beat Jarmila Gajdosova and Christina McHale to advance to the third round.

Sabine Lisicki lost to Timea Bacsinszky in straight sets ending a streak of making the quarterfinals or better which she had done in her five previous appearances.

Sabine Lisicki then played at the Rogers Cup, beating last year's finalist, Venus Williams and Barbora Strycova to advance to the third round where she lost to eventual champion, Belinda Bencic in three sets despite having a match point in the third set.

Sabine Lisicki then played at the US Open as the 24th seed.

Sabine Lisicki beat qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Camila Giorgi in the first two rounds.

Sabine Lisicki lost to Simona Halep in three sets, in a match that had a combined 105 unforced errors and 17 breaks of serve.

Sabine Lisicki began her 2016 season at the Hopman Cup representing Germany with Alexander Zverev.

In Doha, Sabine Lisicki lost in the first round to Monica Niculescu.

At the Nuremberg Cup, Sabine Lisicki avenged her loss to Lara Arruabarrena the previous year before losing to Varvara Lepchenko in straight sets.

At the French Open, Sabine Lisicki lost to qualifier Veronica Cepede Royg in the first round in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki beat Kristina Mladenovic before losing to Mariana Duque in three sets.

Sabine Lisicki easily beat recent French Open quarterfinalist Shelby Rogers in straight sets and in the second round she beat 14th seed Sam Stosur in straight sets.

Sabine Lisicki then fell to Yaroslava Shvedova in the third round.

Sabine Lisicki played at the Cincinnati Open qualifying stage and knocked out Anastasija Sevastova in round one, but was defeated by Zheng Saisai in round two.

At the Wuhan Open, Sabine Lisicki was defeated by Ekaterina Makarova and at the China Open, Sabine Lisicki beat Lucic-Baroni but lost to Svitolina.

Sabine Lisicki received a wildcard in both the Wuhan Open and China Open and after this, Lisicki was back in the top 100 again.

Sabine Lisicki next played at the Hawaii Open and beat Julia Boserup and Veronica Cepede Royg, but retired injured in the third set of her quarterfinal against Jacqueline Cako.

Sabine Lisicki was supposed to participate at the Kooyong Classic; however, she withdrew due to a shoulder injury, which kept her out of the Australian Open.

Sabine Lisicki reached the quarterfinals beating fifth seed Kiki Bertens and Shelby Rogers.

Sabine Lisicki ended up losing to eventual finalist Julia Gorges.

Sabine Lisicki made it to the quarterfinals at the Washington Open eliminating qualifier Valentini Grammatikopoulou and Aryna Sabalenka.

Sabine Lisicki ended up losing to fifth seed Oceane Dodin.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the second round to lucky loser Naomi Broady.

Sabine Lisicki reached the semifinal where she retired during the second set against Antonia Lottner.

Sabine Lisicki reached her first semifinal since 2015, losing to Kateryna Kozlova.

Sabine Lisicki was defeated in the first round of qualifying at Indian Wells and Miami by Sofia Kenin and Andrea Petkovic.

Sabine Lisicki next lost in the first round of Hua Hin to Garbine Muguruza.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the first qualifying round to Zarina Diyas at Dubai, and lost in the first round of Charleston to Sofia Kenin.

Sabine Lisicki lost in the first round of Bogota to the eventual champion Amanda Anisimova, and lost in the first qualifying round at Stuttgart to Isabella Shinikova.

Sabine Lisicki then lost in the first qualifying round of Rabat to Bibiane Schoofs, and lost in the first round of Nuremberg to Ajla Tomljanovic.

Sabine Lisicki failed to qualify for the ITF tournament in Surbiton, and failed to qualify for the tournament in Rosmalen, losing in the first qualifying round to Greet Minnen.

Sabine Lisicki next lost in the second qualifying round of Mallorca to Kaja Juvan, despite defeating compatriot Mona Barthel in the first qualifying round.

Sabine Lisicki received a wildcard for the Wimbledon qualifying, where she lost in the final round to Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove, after defeating Timea Babos and Ankita Raina.

Sabine Lisicki participated in her first WTA event of the year at Linz, where she defeated Bibiane Schoofs in the first qualifying round before falling to Tereza Martincova.

Sabine Lisicki fell on court, and tore her anterior cruciate ligament, and announced later that she had received surgery for the injury.

Sabine Lisicki beat Anastasia Nefedova in the first round, and then beat fourth seed Sofia Shapatava in the second.

Sabine Lisicki then received wildcards to compete in the German Open in Berlin.

Sabine Lisicki won her first main draw match on the WTA Tour since 2018 as a wildcard at the Bad Homburg Open, defeating compatriot Tamara Korpatsch in the first round.

Sabine Lisicki then beat Belgian Greet Minnen in the second round, before losing to eventual champion Caroline Garcia in the quarterfinals.

Sabine Lisicki then accepted a wildcard into the Andorra Open, where she defeated sixth seed Sara Errani in the first round, but lost to later champion Alycia Parks in the quarterfinals.

Sabine Lisicki has a strong forehand and backhand, hitting balls with power, depth and angles.

Sabine Lisicki is nicknamed "Boom Boom" for her "huge serve and thumping groundstrokes".

Sabine Lisicki's serve is among the most powerful on the WTA Tour, having been described variously as a "cannon" and a "howitzer".

Sabine Lisicki was ranked second in the aces count in 2013, only behind Serena Williams, and was ranked fifth in 2014.

Sabine Lisicki held the record for the most aces in a singles match.

Sabine Lisicki broke the record of 24, held jointly by Serena Williams and Kaia Kanepi, by hitting 27 aces during her second-round encounter against Belinda Bencic at the 2015 Aegon Classic on 17 June 2015.

Sabine Lisicki used to "hate" playing on grass because she is allergic to it and had a five-match losing streak on grass in 2009.

Sabine Lisicki is on medication for her allergy and "loves" playing on it.

Sabine Lisicki is a fan of the Germany national football team and of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich.

Sabine Lisicki was previously in a relationship with German comedian Oliver Pocher, whom she dated for almost three years.