Comments on: Keep Your Eyes on Sabine http://www.onthebaseline.com/2009/12/21/keep-your-eyes-on-sabine-lisicki/ Women's Professional Tennis News, Results, and Commentary Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:59:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Aaress Lawless http://www.onthebaseline.com/2009/12/21/keep-your-eyes-on-sabine-lisicki/comment-page-1/#comment-55495 Aaress Lawless Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:06:13 +0000 http://www.onthebaseline.com/?p=8894#comment-55495 She definitely had an excellent run at the Family Circle Cup this year and it was great to see her back the trophy up by continuing to improve her form throughout the rest of the season. Great article, Diane! Thank you for joining us! She definitely had an excellent run at the Family Circle Cup this year and it was great to see her back the trophy up by continuing to improve her form throughout the rest of the season.

Great article, Diane! Thank you for joining us!

]]> By: Andrew Broad http://www.onthebaseline.com/2009/12/21/keep-your-eyes-on-sabine-lisicki/comment-page-1/#comment-55488 Andrew Broad Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:48:35 +0000 http://www.onthebaseline.com/?p=8894#comment-55488 With her big serve, big backhand and fighting spirit, Sabine has the potential to have a great future. She could be winning Majors in the 2010s, but she is inconsistent and therefore unpredictable. I saw Sabine play in the flesh at Birmingham 2008, when she lost 6-3 6-4 to Samantha Stosur. Sabine looked impressive in the first set, with some low, dipping passes to the feet of the serve-volleying Stosur, but one break was all that Stosur needed to win it. Sabine was erratic and ineffective as she went 0-4 down in the second, but staged a terrific fightback. Stosur was very lucky to close it out at *5-4, because Sabine was playing brilliantly and had the momentum. I next saw Sabine upsetting Svetlana Kuznetsova at Wimbledon 2009: the BBC basically only showed the last game, but it was enough to see Sabine hit a couple of great returns as she closed out the match from 6-2 6-5* (0/40*). The BBC showed Sabine's quarter-final loss in full: she was overpowering Dinara Safina until she led 7-6 *3-3, but the match turned when she dropped her serve, and a tiring Sabine slumped to a 6-7 6-4 6-1 loss. Sabine is certainly a player to watch in the 2010s. With her big serve, big backhand and fighting spirit, Sabine has the potential to have a great future. She could be winning Majors in the 2010s, but she is inconsistent and therefore unpredictable.

I saw Sabine play in the flesh at Birmingham 2008, when she lost 6-3 6-4 to Samantha Stosur. Sabine looked impressive in the first set, with some low, dipping passes to the feet of the serve-volleying Stosur, but one break was all that Stosur needed to win it.

Sabine was erratic and ineffective as she went 0-4 down in the second, but staged a terrific fightback. Stosur was very lucky to close it out at *5-4, because Sabine was playing brilliantly and had the momentum.

I next saw Sabine upsetting Svetlana Kuznetsova at Wimbledon 2009: the BBC basically only showed the last game, but it was enough to see Sabine hit a couple of great returns as she closed out the match from 6-2 6-5* (0/40*).

The BBC showed Sabine’s quarter-final loss in full: she was overpowering Dinara Safina until she led 7-6 *3-3, but the match turned when she dropped her serve, and a tiring Sabine slumped to a 6-7 6-4 6-1 loss.

Sabine is certainly a player to watch in the 2010s.

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