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The clay season has arrived and with it have come two excruciating defeats for Sabine Lisicki. Her first clay match was against Anatasia Pavlyuchenkova in the Fed Cup tie against Russia. Lisicki had a match point in the second set, but didn’t convert it and ended up losing the match in three sets. Today she played in a tournament in her home country, where she got double bagelled by Zarina Diyas. There’s no two worse ways to lose a match than the way Sabine Lisicki has lost her last two matches.
As a fan of Sabine, it was very difficult to witness what was happening against Diyas. Nothing was going her way and I was sensing the worst early on in the match. At first I thought it’d just be a set, but then the games just kept going by without winning one. It felt inevitable it’d be…
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