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Liezel Huber

Country	United States
Residence	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Date of birth	August 21, 1976 (1976-08-21) (age 32)
Place of birth	Durban, South Africa
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	158 lb (72 kg/11.3 st)
Turned pro	April, 1993
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$3,315,995
Singles
Career record:	175–159
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	No. 131 (March 29, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	N/A
French Open	2R (1998)
Wimbledon	N/A
US Open	1R (1998)
Doubles
Career record:	534–281
Career titles:	34 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (November 12, 2007)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2007)
French Open	F (2005)
Wimbledon	W (2005, 2007)
US Open	W (2008)
Major doubles tournaments
WTA Championships	W (2007, 2008)
Olympic Games	QF (2008)
Infobox last updated on: November 10, 2008.

Liezel Huber (born August 21, 1976 in Durban) is a tennis player from South Africa who competes for and resides in the United States. Huber has won the women's doubles title in Wimbledon in 2005 and the Australian Open in 2007 with partner Cara Black. As of November 12, 2007, she is the co-World No. 1 in Doubles with Cara Black.

In 2005, Huber started a foundation,^[1] to raise money and gather basic supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In July 2007, it was revealed that Huber had been sworn in as a U.S. citizen in an expedited process,^[2] so that she could represent the country in WTA Tournaments and more importantly possibly the Fed Cup and the 2008 Beijing Olympics in doubles, partnering former world number 1 (both in singles and doubles) Lindsay Davenport.

1 Career
2 Career statistics
- 2.1 Grand Slam finals
  - 2.1.1 Doubles
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

Huber won the 2004 Hyderabad Open doubles with Sania Mirza and went on to win the 2005 Wimbledon Ladies Doubles with Cara Black. In 2006 she won the Bangalore Open doubles with Sania Mirza and the Strasbourg doubles with Martina Navratilova. 2007 saw her win both the Australian Open and Wimdbledon doubles with Cara Black while in 2008 she reached the mixed doubles finals with Jamie Murray.

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Grand Slam finals

[edit] Doubles

Wins (4)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in final	Score in final
2005	Wimbledon	Cara Black	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo	6–2, 6–1
2007	Australian Open	Cara Black	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
2007	Wimbledon (2)	Cara Black	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
2008	US Open	Cara Black	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–3, 7–6(8)

Runner-ups (2)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in final	Score in final
2004	Wimbledon	Ai Sugiyama	Cara Black Rennae Stubbs	6–3, 7–6
2005	French Open	Cara Black	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 6–3, 6–3

[edit] References

^ Liezel's Cause, foundation for the Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans set up by Liezel Huber. Link accessed 2007-08-31.
^ "Playoffs On The Line As Buzz Host Smash", by Christopher Gerby, Tennis Online, July 25, 2007. Link accessed 2007-08-31.