Madrid : Rafael Nadal cruised into the Madrid Open quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory Thursday over Mikhail Youzhny that featured an array of creative shots. Top-ranked Serena Williams and No. 2 Maria Sharapova also reached the quarterfinals in straight sets. Having already established control by winning Youzhny's second service game, Nadal kept a point going with a deft no-look backhand flick before nailing a winner down the line to...
07:01 PM, May 09, 2013
Stuttgart: Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands will have to wait for their third title of the season as they ended runners-up at the WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix after losing the summit clash to Sabine Lisicki and Mona Barthel, on Sunday. Playing their third final of the season, the unseeded Indo-American pair lost 4-6 5-7 in one hour and 33 minutes to the local favourites, who were unseeded wild card...
10:15 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Former No. 1 Wozniacki has rallied from a set to win her first-round match 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 to Sabine Lisicki of Germany. ...
09:30 AM, Jan 15, 2013
Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka opened her 2013 season with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Germany's Sabine Lisicki. ...
05:52 PM, Jan 02, 2013
London: Maria Sharapova overcame an early deficit and 10 double-faults on Wednesday to reach the Olympic quarter-finals by beating No.15-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. Sharapova, playing in her first Olympics, let out a whoop when she closed the victory with an ace. The Russian's opponent Thursday will be Kim Clijsters, a first-time Olympian but four-time Grand Slam champion. ...
03:12 AM, Aug 02, 2012
London: Top-seeded Maria Sharapova was knocked out of Wimbledon on Monday, losing 6-4, 6-3 to Sabine Lisicki in the fourth round just a month after completing a career Grand Slam. Lisicki, a 15th-ranked German, outplayed the 2004 Wimbledon champion in the wind and rain on Court 1 for her first career victory over Sharapova in four matches. She avenged last year's loss to Sharapova in the Wimbledon semi-finals. Also advancing...
11:07 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic is tough to beat at Wimbledon, indoors or out. Playing the day's first Centre Court match on Friday under the retractable roof, defending champion Djokovic rallied past Radek Stepanek 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. When a drizzle delayed the start of the third round, tournament officials decided Djokovic's match should be played inside. An odd spectacle ensued: The roof closed as the sun came out and outside court...
09:10 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Charleston: Reigning US Open champion Samantha Stosur put the latest match-up in the Williams sisters' sibling rivalry on hold by rallying past Venus Williams at the Family Circle Cup. The second-seeded Stosur won five of the last six games for a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory in the quarter-finals on a chilly, windy Friday at the season's first clay-court event. Stosur now has a chance at knocking out both Williams sisters...
11:15 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Charleston, South Carolina: Venus Williams kept up with sister Serena by winning a third-round match at the Family Circle Cup, moving one step closer to an all-Williams semi-final. Venus and Serena both reached the quarter-finals of the Family Circle Cup on Thursday with straight-set victories. Venus defeated Anastasia Rodionova 7-5, 6-2 on center court shortly after Serena ousted Marina Erakovic, 6-2, 6-2. Should the sisters win on Friday, it would...
01:09 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Doha: Seeded players Sabine Lisicki and Daniela Hantuchova lost in the opening round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday after holding one-set leads. Angelique Kerber overcame a stomach bug to defeat the ninth-seeded Lisicki 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in an all-German match, and Simona Halep of Romania downed the 15th-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4) after 2 hours, 32 minutes. Kerber, a US Open semi-finalist who won her...
10:33 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Stuttgart: Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova rallied to beat Germany's Sabine Lisicki and send defending champion Czech Republic into the semi-finals of the Fed Cup after giving her country an insurmountable lead in the first round on Sunday. Angelique Kerber later beat Lucie Hradecka 6-4, 6-4 to salvage some pride for the hosts with the 24-year-old German's first Fed Cup win. But Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova reaffirmed Czech dominance...
01:25 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Melbourne: Maria Sharapova is back into the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time since she won the title at Melbourne Park in 2008. The No. 4-ranked Sharapova had a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 win over No. 14 Sabine Lisicki at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night and will meet fellow Russian Ekaterina Makarova in the next stage. No. 56-ranked Makarova staged the biggest upset of the Open so...
06:23 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Melbourne: Serena Williams' 17-match winning streak at the Australian Open ended on Monday in a stunning 6-2, 6-3 loss to Ekaterina Makarova, the lowest-ranked woman in the fourth round. The dominant force at Melbourne Park this century, Williams had lost only two matches at Melbourne Park since winning the first of her five Australian Open titles in 2003. After losing in the 2008 quarter-finals, she won titles in 2009 and...
09:31 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Auckland: Top seed Sabine Lisicki overcame a 90-minute delay for heavy rain that halted her momentum to scratch out a tough three-set victory over fellow German Mona Barthel in the second round of the Auckland Classic on Wednesday. The 22-year-old had broken Barthel to take a 6-5 lead in the first set and seemed to be getting on top of the match before rain swept across central Auckland and forced...
06:11 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Auckland: Top-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany beat French wildcard entry Virginie Razzano 6-4, 6-4 on Monday in the first round of the ASB Classic. The 22-year-old Lisicki, who lifted her world ranking from 218 to 15 in 2011 as she recovered from an ankle injury, struggled to assert her powerful service game before beating Razzano in 85 minutes. "It's always tough to play the first match of the season," Lisicki...
08:10 PM, Jan 02, 2012
