Current and former WTA peers including Timea Babos, Ashlyn Krueger, Magdalena Frech, Eva Lys and Shelby Rogers were among those who wished the former world No. 12 well in the comments section.
The oft-injured Lisicki, who reached her best ranking back in 2012 and will turn 35 years old next week, promised “one more comeback” when she announced her pregnancy in March. In 2023, Lisicki won her first title of any kind in nine years when she triumphed at the ITF W60 event in Calgary, Canada in November, a victory which followed her tearing the anterior cruciate ligament ligament in her knee in 2020, as well as a pair of ankle injuries, a shoulder problem, and mononucleosis in her career.
Lisicki’s last WTA-level match win came in 2022.
