The USA will soon have another Grand Slam champion competing under its banner as South Africa’s Liezel Huber has announced her decision to become a citizen in the United States.
Huber, who won the 2005 ladies title at Wimbledon with Cara Black and most recently the 2007 title at the Australian Open also with Black, is expected to gain citizenship in March.
She is married to an American, Tony Huber, and has resided in Houston for the past few years, so it is definitely not a surprise that she would want to compete under the red, white, and blue.
The News24 article mentions that she has had several disagreements with the South African tennis federation in the past and was not permitted to compete at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
According to her brother, Janus Horn, Liezel is “still a South African at heart, but she hasn’t got good memories of South African tennis.”
Since moving to the United States, Huber has been very involved in charitable work, most notably her foundation for Hurricane Katrina victims, Liezel’s Cause.
