Liezel Huber

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**Liezel Huber**

Country	United States
Residence	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Date of birth	August 21, 1976 (1976-08-21) (age 31)
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	$2,637,200
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:	492-274
Career titles:	27 WTA, 11 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (November 12, 2007)
Infobox last updated on: May 12, 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.

1 Grand Slam women's doubles finals (5)
2 Wins (3)
3 Runner-ups (2)
4 Career highlights
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Grand Slam women's doubles finals (5)

[edit] Wins (3)

Year	Championship	Partnering	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
2005	Wimbledon	Cara Black	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amelie 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

[edit] 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] Career highlights

2007 Australian Open and Wimbledon doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Cara Black)
2006 Bangalore Open (Hyderabad Open in the previous years) doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Sania Mirza); Strasbourg doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Martina Navratilova)
2005 Wimbledon doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Cara Black)
2004 Hyderabad Open doubles: Won the tournament (partnering with Sania Mirza)

[edit] Trivia

Liezel's native language is Afrikaans [1]

[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, 25 July 2007. Link accessed 2007-08-31.