Archive for category: Sabine Lisicky
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Azarenka defeats Lisicki and advances into third round of China Open
Many observers were salivating at the prospect of this second round clash, which pitted in-form world number one Victoria Azarenka against the inconsistent but dangerous Sabine Lisicki. Although Azarenka had won both of their previous contests, each match had gone deep into the third set. Lisicki had beaten Maria Sharapova [...] -
Wozniacki moves into 2nd round of Tokyo, Watson beats Lisicki
Caroline Wozniacki, Heather Watson as well as Jie Zhen will play in the second round of the 2012 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Former number one Wozniacki came into the tournament as last week’s Seoul title holder. She picked up where she had let off a couple of days [...] -
US Open Round 1: Bartoli Strolls into R2, Cirstea and Pliskova Pull Off Upsets over Germans Lisicki and Goerges
Bartoli defeats Hampton, 6-3 7-6(5) France’s Marion Bartoli (11th seed) breaks in the opening game, to go up 2-0 in the first set. Bartoli is working a point beautifully, managing to wrongfoot America’s Jamie Hampton, but Hampton recovers and Bartoli nets an easy BH at 30-40 on Hampton’s serve at [...] -
Venus Williams beats Wozniak, Lisicki sees of Shvedova in the second round of Olympics
In a very tightly fought second round match, Sabine Lisicki of Germany overcame the spirited play of the unseeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, 4-6 6-3 7-5. Play was suspended at a critical point in the match, when Shvedova led 6-4 3-6 3-2, once again because of the rain which has [...] -
Serena Williams shock defeat by Makarova at the aussie open
It was only the second loss of her career for Serena Williams at Melbourne Park. She went out surprisingly to the Russian Ekaterina Makarova in the last 16 of the 2012 Australian Open, Makarova winning 6-2 6-3. The 23 year old Russian played agressive tennis throughout the match and Williams [...] -
Wozniacki and Sharapova reach last 16 at Australian Open
Last year’s Wimbledon finalist Maria Sharapova overcame 30th-seeded German Angelique Kerber 6-1, 6-2 to reach the round of last 16 at this year’s Australian Open. She will now face Sabine Lisicky of Germany in the next round. Top seed Caroline Wozniacki is yet to drop a set at this year’s [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova, Goerges and Lisicky out of Linz
Sorana Cirstea of Romania surprisingly defeated fourth seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the second round of the Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament in Austria. Pavlyuchenkova couldn’t find her serve as she made 11 double faults. Cirstea will play either Lucie Safarova or Alberta Brianti next. This [...]
