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Sabine Vasilievna Katharina Lisicki (born 22 September 1989 in Troisdorf) is a professional German tennis player. She achieved her career high rank of World No. 22 on 3 August 2009. She lives in Bradenton, Florida. Lisicki is the daughter of first-generation Polish immigrants.
Lisicki trains at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida, USA. She has never had a professional coach in her life.

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, UK, and the other in Toronto, Canada. She defeated top-seed Katie O'Brien on 2 August 2007 at the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open.
Lisicki started the 2010 season by playing at the Hopman Cup for Germany. She won her singles ties against Elena Dementieva and Laura Robson but lost to Yaroslava Shvedova. Partnering with Philipp Kohlschreiber, they lost all their doubles matches, so Germany did not proceed to the finals.

Lisicki then travelled to Melbourne to compete in the Australian Open where she was the 21st seed. However she was upset in the second round by Alberta Brianti in three sets.

Her first tournament after the Australian Open was the Pattaya Open in Bangkok where she was the 2nd seed. However, she lost her second round match to home-crowd favourite Tamarine Tanasugarn.
She then went to Dubai to compete in the Dubai Tennis Championships. She lost her second round match against Venus Williams.

Her next two tournaments were at Indian Wells and Miami. In both tournaments, Lisicki had to retire in the second round because of an ankle injury.

Because of injury, Lisicki was then forced to pull out of tournaments at Ponte Vedra and Charleston. She also missed missed the Roland Garros and Wimbledon.

Coming into the 2010 US Open ranked world number 96, Lisicki advanced to the second round before losing to 7th seeded Vera Zvonareva.

After the US Open, Lisicki failed to qualify for the Luxembourg leading to her dropping out of the Top-100.
Lisicki started the 2011 season at the ASB Classic in Auckland. She beat India's Sania Mirza to qualify for it. She then won her first round match against Florencia Molinero, 6-1 6-3, before losing to Yanina Wickmayer in three sets in the second round.

After losing at 2011 BNP Paribas Open to Sorana Cirstea, Sabine lifted her form up and she reached third round at 2011 Sony Ericsson Open. She beat Melinda Czink and caused an upset beating Nadia Petrova when Petrova retired in the third set due the dizziness. She fell to Maria Sharapova in the third round.

At 2011 Family Circle Cup Sabine reached third round but lost to Sania Mirza in two sets. She beat Marion Bartoli in the second round.
At the 2011 French Open, she advanced to the second round against the number three seed, Vera Zvonareva. Lisicki had a match point at 5-2 of the third set, but she lost the point and eventually the match, 4-6 7-5 7-5. Afterwards, she lay on the court, sobbing, and was taken off on a stretcher due to injury.

At the 2011 AEGON Classic, Lisicki defeated 3rd seed Peng Shuai in the semifinals after defeating Kimiko Date Krumm, Kirsten Flipkens, Tamira Paszek, and Magdaléna Rybáriková. She will play Slovak Daniela Hantuchová for a chance to win her second WTA Tour title.

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