Sabine Lisicki - Wimbledon Tennis Championships July 2013

Sabine Katharina Lisicki (German pronunciation: [zaˈbiːnɛ lɪˈzɪki]); born 22 September 1989) is a German professional tennis player. She turned professional in 2006 and her breakthrough came in 2009 when she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships and won her first WTA title, the Family Circle Cup, against Caroline Wozniacki. In March 2010, she suffered an ankle injury at the Indian Wells Masters that kept her out of competition for five months and saw her fall out of the top 200.

At the Wimbledon Championships, Lisicki was seeded twenty-third. She beat Francesca Schiavone 6–1, 6–2 in the first round, Elena Vesnina 6–3, 6–1 in the second round and fourteenth seed Samantha Stosur 4–6, 6–2, 6–1 in the third round. In the fourth round she faced first seed and reigning Wimbledon, US Open, and French Open champion Serena Williams. Lisicki won in 3 sets; 6–2, 1–6, 6–4; marking the fourth time in her last four participations that she knocked out the reigning French Open champion at Wimbledon. Williams had been on a 34-match winning streak coming into the match. Lisicki defeated Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6–3, 6–3, reaching the Wimbledon semi-finals for the second time in her career. She beat Agnieszka Radwanska in a three set semi-final 6–4, 2–6, 9–7 in two hours and eighteen 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 Schüttler at the 2003 Australian Open. However, she was beaten in the final by France's Marion Bartoli 1–6, 4–6.