Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond are on top of the world and have just won the Indian Wells 2012 Womens Doubles title. Huber and Raymond swept aside Mirza and Vesnina in the final 6-2 6-3.
Huber and Raymond have already won the Paris, Doha and Dubai titles in February, so whats an extra title!!
“Right now we’re just playing well,” Raymond said. “When we step on the court we feel the other team is going to have to play really well to beat us, whether or not there are tough conditions. We’ve proven that over the past few weeks. And even if anyone ever thinks we’re down and out, we’ll find a way to win.”
“If we’re ever having a bad moment we try to keep it as short as possible,” Huber said. “Like if I’ve made an error or two errors, I know it’s not permanent, just take two minutes, forgive yourself and move on. Just think of the next game.
“Our run has been unbelievable – we’ve come close to losing at times, but we’ve worked very hard, and the hard work has been showing in our great results.”
Liezel Huber has been talking out to CNN about the state of South African tennis. Huber has been a top doubles player in the world for many years and she was basically forced to move to the USA from South Africa to improve her game at the age of 15.
“In South Africa I don’t think they are looking at it as a business. That’s kind of what hurts the most,” she said. “When Wes Moodie and I won Wimbledon doubles titles in 2005, I actually thought it would change tennis in South Africa. Nothing changed. Maybe there’s more important things to spend money on, maybe tennis is not important. Maybe it’s more important for the government to build schools. I’m not there so I’m not sure why tennis is not getting funding. But it shows.”
Huber recently went back to South Africa to hold a clinic but was very disappointed with the talent.
South African tennis really needs to step up their game and get the top players to really try to give back to get more kids involved at the grass roots of the game.
Lindsay Davenport is planning to come back to the women’s doubles tour and will partner Liezel Huber.
Huber told Radio Roland Garros that Davenport has committed to play doubles at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California and the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego, California.Since leaving the Tour for the second time in 2008 due to the birth of her daughter Lauren, Davenport has been working as a television commentator, most notably for Tennis Channel.
It appears that Cara Black and Liezel Huber have broken up their very profitable doubles partnership. Huber recently played doubles with Nadia Petrova last week in Charleston at the Family Circle Cup.
“On a personal note, my regular doubles partner, Cara Black and I are taking a mutual break from being exclusive doubles partners,” Huber wrote.
“Both Cara and I are entered in Stuttgart with different partners but we continue to strive to do what we love most and that is to compete on the tennis court. I just wanted to thank everybody for their support. It was not any easy decision but we announced it today. We both want to be better players and right now it is best for us to just take a little break. We might get back together and we might not.”
Black and Huber have not ruled out playing again together in the future.
“Do not be surprised to see us playing with each other or with someone else in the next couple of months,” Huber said. “It was not an easy decision. We have had a great partnership and we are appreciative of all the fan support.”
