Liezel Huber
Liezel Huber ( born August 21, 1976 in Durban, South Africa Liezel Horn ) is a former South African, now American tennis player.
- 3.1 double
Career
Huber began at the age of five years of playing tennis. Your preferred flooring is the hard court. Your professional career began in April 1993. Unlike her highly successful record in the double they could never win a major singles title. With her doubles partner Cara Black, she won Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon (2005, 2007) and at the Australian Open (2007) and U.S. Open ( 2008). For the South African Olympic team Huber joined the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in doubles. On 12 November 2007 she took over along with Cara Black, the head of the double world rankings.
Following the adoption of the U.S. citizenship in July 2007, she was able to play for the U.S. in Fed Cup and at the Olympics. In Beijing, she joined in 2008 with the former world number one in singles and doubles, Lindsay Davenport, in the doubles. The two reached the quarter- final, subject to there but the later silver medalists Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 7-5, 6:7 and 6:8.
Huber and Black ended in April 2010 their cooperation, since they play with changing partners. Thus, the Huber Family Circle Cup won with Nadia Petrova, played at Wimbledon with Bethanie Mattek -Sands and denied the two discharged in California tournaments in the U.S. Open Series in Stanford and San Diego with Lindsay Davenport. Since the summer of 2011 Lisa Raymond is their permanent doubles partner. The new duo has already won eight tournaments on the tour.