5 most injury-prone female tennis players in recent times

#4 Sabine Lisicki

The fall and rise of Sabine Lisicki over the years has been truly dramatic. The German turned pro in 2006 and her big break came in the 2009 Wimbledon Championships where she reached the quarterfinals. In 2010, she was plagued by an ankle injury that took her out of action for five months, and soon she was out of the top-200 ranking.

When she recalls that time, she states, “It was a very tough time for me. Even walking, in the beginning, was tough. I had zero muscles in my calf so I had to rebuild them and basically had to learn how to walk and run again. Before the injury, I had no trouble running for 30, 40 or 60 minutes. When I first started to run after the injury, after 45 or 50 seconds I was dead sometimes. Those kinds of things make you wonder ‘How am I supposed to get back?’”

She recovered and came back to form in 2012, reaching her career best ranking of 12. But she suffered an ankle injury in the same year which prevented her from giving her best, and to this day she continues to battle for fitness.