Tennis Acer Sabine Lisicki

A famous saying goes ‘Rules are meant to be broken’ this implies equally to the ‘Records’ as they are also meant to be broken in some time or later. Aces (and un-returnable serves) are especially important in men's tennis, and are becoming ever more important in women's tennis, too. Accuracy and placement choice, more than sheer power are the tools for delivering an ace. And whatever your style of service action speed comes from getting the racket to travel faster as it makes impact with the ball. You do need to be strong to do it, but it's not about having big arm muscles. Flexibility is what is really important.

In the Aegon Classic Championship at Birmingham, history knocked at the door of German tennis star Sabine Lisicki when she hit 27 aces in a match against Belinda Bencic. This was a new WTA record made by Lisicki. Before her Serena Williams of US and Kaia Kanepi of Estonia hold the record of 24 aces. She made the record by hitting 16 aces in the first set and 11 aces in the second set of the game. The 25 year old Sabine Lisicki defeated the Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic in the straight sets of 6-1, 7-6 (7/4).

This is not the first time Lisicki has created serving history, either. At the Bank of The West Classic in Stanford last year, she hit a 131mph serve against Ana Ivanovic - the WTA record for fastest serve. Estonia's Kaia Kanepi hit 24 aces in a match in Tokyo in 2008 while Serena Williams also unleashed 24 in one Wimbledon tie in 2012. Lisicki who is from German but based in US, became a professional tennis player in the year 2006. In 2009 she reached the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championship.

In 1979, Lisicki's parents immigrated to West Germany from Poland. Her father, Dr. Richard Lisicki, is of German and Polish descent and her mother, Elisabeth, of Polish.  She was introduced to the sport at the age of seven by her father who has a doctorate in sport science and is her coach. Her mother is a painter specialising in ceramics. Currently she lives in Florida and can speak German, English and Polish fluently. In the 2012 Olympics with her mixed doubles partner Christopher Kas she won the Bronze medal for her country Germany.