Liezel Huber

Country	United States  South Africa
Residence	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Born	August 21, 1976 (1976-08-21) (age 35) Durban, South Africa
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Turned pro	April, 1993
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$4,929,719
Singles
Career record	175–159
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 131 (March 29, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	Q3 (2002)
French Open	2R (1998)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2002)
US Open	1R (1998)
Doubles
Career record	676–334
Career titles	44 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 1 (November 12, 2007)
Current ranking	No. 5 (August 8, 2011)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	W (2007)
French Open	F (2005)
Wimbledon	W (2005, 2007)
US Open	W (2008, 2011)
WTA Championships	W (2007, 2008)
Olympic Games	QF (2008)
Mixed Doubles
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	F (2005)
French Open	W (2009)
Wimbledon	F (2001)
US Open	W (2010)
Last updated on: August 8, 2011.

Liezel Huber (née Horn; born August 21, 1976, Durban, South Africa) is a professional tennis player who competes for, resides in, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. Huber has won four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles with partner Cara Black, one with Lisa Raymond, and two mixed doubles titles with Bob Bryan. On November 12, 2007, she became the co-World No. 1 in Doubles with Cara Black. On April 19, 2010, Huber became the sole No. 1 for the first time in her career.

At age 15, she moved to the United States from South Africa to attend the Van Der Meer Tennis Academy in Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1992. Huber has since resided in the U.S. She is married to Tony Huber, an American citizen. In 2005, she started a foundation, Liezel's Cause to raise money and gather basic supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

She competed for the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in doubles, partnering with former world number 1 (both in singles and doubles) Lindsay Davenport; the pair lost in the quarterfinals.

Career

Liezel Huber is primarily a doubles specialist, having achieved one of the greatest careers in this discipline. She has won 44 women's doubles titles in her career. In singles, her greatest result in her career was reaching to the quarterfinals at the tournament in Pattaya City in 2001, where she lost to Slovakian Henrieta Nagyová. She participated in two Grand Slam singles main draws, losing to Lindsay Davenport in the second round of the 1998 French Open. She lost in the 1999 US Open first round to Raluca Sandu. Her highest singles ranking was World No. 131, which she achieved on March 29, 1999. She enjoyed the majority of her first 8 years on tour on the ITF Circuit, winning 11 doubles titles there.

Huber has enjoyed successful women's partnerships with Ai Sugiyama, Martina Navrátilová, Lindsay Davenport, Cara Black, Nadia Petrova, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, María José Martínez Sánchez, and Lisa Raymond. Huber has reached at least one Grand Slam women's doubles final for the last seven years, since 2004. Huber has also been in the final of all four Grand Slams, winning in all except for the French Open. She has won a total of five Grand Slam women's doubles titles with three partners in ten finals with four partners, and finished as a titlist in two of her five mixed doubles finals.

Huber and her Zimbabwean partner Black made up what many tennis experts regard as one of the greatest women's doubles teams in history between mid-2005 and early 2010. Together, the pair reached seven women's doubles finals, winning four. The duo won a total of 29 titles together on the WTA Tour. The partnership suddenly broke up in April of 2010.

Huber has also enjoyed success in mixed doubles, winning two titles with American men's doubles legend Bob Bryan, at the 2009 French Open and 2010 US Open. She reached her first career mixed final with Bob's brother Mike at the 2001 Wimbledon Championships, and two additional finals, at the 2005 Australian Open with Kevin Ullyett, and at the 2008 US Open with Jamie Murray.

Liezel Huber has also enjoyed impressive success in the Fed Cup national competition. She logged a 9–3 record on the South Africa Fed Cup team, with all but one match being in doubles. Huber is now a major member of the United States Fed Cup team, compiling a 6–2 record in doubles play. In the competition, Huber has played with Julie Ditty, Vania King, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and Melanie Oudin.

Doubles Finals

Wins (45)

• 2001, 3 – Shanghai (w/Lenka Němečková), Tokyo-Toyota Princess Cup (w/Cara Black), Tokyo-Japan Open (w/Ai Sugiyama)
• 2002, 1 – Auckland (w/Nicole Arendt)
• 2003, 5 – Linz (w/Sugiyama), Madrid (w/Jill Craybas), Miami, Warsaw (w/Magdalena Maleeva), Sarasota (w/Martina Navrátilová)
• 2004, 1 – Hyderabad (w/Sania Mirza)
• 2005, 2 – Rome, 2005 Wimbledon (w/Black)
• 2006, 3 – Bangalore, Kolkata (w/Mirza), Strasbourg (w/Navrátilová)
• 2007, 9 – Antwerp, 2007 Australian Open, Dubai, Linz, 2007 Madrid WTA Tour Championships, Moscow, Paris-Paris Indoors, San Diego, 2007 Wimbledon (w/Black)
• 2008, 10 – Antwerp, Berlin, Birmingham, Dubai, Eastbourne, Montréal, Stanford, 2008 US Open, 2008 Doha WTA Tour Championships, Zürich, (w/Black)
• 2009, 5 – Birmingham, Cincinnati, Dubai, Miami, Paris-Paris Indoors
• 2010, 3 – Auckland, Sydney (w/Black), Charleston (w/Nadia Petrova), Stanford (w/Lindsay Davenport)
• 2011, 3 – Dubai (w/María José Martínez Sánchez), Toronto, 2011 US Open (w/Lisa Raymond)

Finalist (33)

• 1998, 1 – Warsaw (w/Karin Kschwendt)
• 2000, 1 – Kuala Lumpur (w/Vanessa Webb)
• 2001, 1 – Pattaya City (w/Wynne Prakusya)
• 2004, 4 – Gold Coast (w/Manuela Maleeva), Montréal (w/Tamarine Tanasugarn), Philadelphia (w/Corina Morariu), 2004 Wimbledon (w/Ai Sugiyama
• 2005, 3 – Berlin, Doha, 2005 French Open (w/Cara Black)
• 2006, 6 – Amelia Island (w/Sania Mirza), Birmingham (w/Jill Craybas), Eastbourne, Miami (w/Martina Navrátilová), Luxembourg (w/Anna-Lena Grönefeld), Zürich (w/Katarina Srebotnik)
• 2007, 3 – Miami, New Haven, Toronto (w/Black)
• 2008, 4 – Doha, Linz, Miami, Moscow (w/Black)
• 2009, 2 – 2009 Doha WTA Tour Championships, 2009 US Open (w/Black)
• 2010, 3 – 2010 Australian Open, Paris-Paris Indoors (w/Black), Birmingham (w/Bethanie Mattek-Sands)
• 2011, 4 – Doha, Miami (w/Nadia Petrova), Eastbourne, Stanford (w/Lisa Raymond)

Grand Slam Statistics

Women's Doubles Performance Timeline

Grand Slam Women's Doubles Finals, 10 (5 titles, 5 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-Up	2004	Wimbledon	Grass	Ai Sugiyama	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–3, 7–6(7–5)
Runner-Up	2005	French Open	Clay	Cara Black	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 6–3, 6–3
Winner	2005	Wimbledon	Grass	Cara Black	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo	6–2, 6–1
Winner	2007	Australian Open	Hard	Cara Black	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
Winner	2008	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Cara Black	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
Winner	2008	US Open	Hard	Cara Black	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–3, 7–6(10–8)
Runner-Up	2009	US Open	Hard	Cara Black	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–2, 6–2
Runner-Up	2010	Australian Open	Hard	Cara Black	Serena Williams Venus Williams	6–4, 6–3
Runner-Up	2010	US Open (2)	Hard	Nadia Petrova	Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova	2–6, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2011	US Open (2)	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Vania King Yaroslava Shvedova	4–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–3)

Grand Slam Mixed Doubles Finals, 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2001	Wimbledon	Grass	Mike Bryan	Leoš Friedl Daniela Hantuchová	6–4, 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up	2005	Australian Open	Hard	Kevin Ullyett	Samantha Stosur Scott Draper	2–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Runner-up	2008	US Open	Hard	Jamie Murray	Leander Paes Cara Black	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Winner	2009	French Open	Clay	Bob Bryan	Vania King Marcelo Melo	5–7, 7–6, [10–7]
Winner	2010	US Open	Hard	Bob Bryan	Květa Peschke Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi	6–4, 6–4

Women's Tennis Association (WTA) World No. 1 doubles players Martina Navrátilová (1984/1990 – 237 w) · Pam Shriver (1985/1986 – 48 w) · Helena Suková (1990/1993 – 68 w) · Jana Novotná (1990/1999 – 67 w) Gigi Fernández (1991/1995 – 80 w) · Natasha Zvereva (1991/1999 – 124 w) · Larisa Neiland (1992 – 4 w) · Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1992/1997 – 111 w) Lindsay Davenport (1997/2000 – 32 w) · Martina Hingis (1998/1999 – 35 w) · Anna Kournikova (1999/2000 – 10 w) · Corina Morariu (2000 – 7 w) · Lisa Raymond (2000/2007 – 117 w) · Rennae Stubbs (2000 – 3 w) · Julie Halard-Decugis (2000 – 14 w) · Ai Sugiyama (2000/2003 – 45 w) Paola Suárez (2002/2004 – 87 w) · Kim Clijsters (2003 – 4 w) · Virginia Ruano Pascual (2003/2005 – 65 w) · Cara Black (2005/2010 – 163 w) Samantha Stosur (2006/2007 – 61 w) · Liezel Huber (2007/2011 – 148 w) · Serena Williams (2010 – 8 w) · Venus Williams (2010 – 8 w) Gisela Dulko (2010/2011 – 24 w) · Flavia Pennetta (2011 – 18 w) · Květa Peschke (2011 – 10 w) · Katarina Srebotnik (2011 – 10 w) WTA rankings incepted on September 4, 1984 · (year first held/year last held – number of weeks (w)) · current No. 1 in bold, as of September 12, 2011