Sabine Hack

Sabine Hack
Nation:	Germany
Birthday:	July 12, 1969
Size:	170 cm
1st professional season:	1983
Resignation:	1997
Playing hand:	Right
Prize money:	$ 941,566
singles
Career record:	235: 172
Career title:	4 WTA , 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	13 (January 16 1995)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	33:56
Career title:	1 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	94 (September 19 1994)
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Sabine Hack (born July 12, 1969 in Ulm ) is a former German tennis player . After Steffi Graf and Anke Huber , she was the most successful German player of the 1990s.

Career

Sabine Hack won her first title on the WTA Tour in São Paulo in 1991 and reached the first sixteen of a Grand Slam tournament a year later at the French Open ; In 1994 she even reached the quarter-finals there .

She achieved her greatest successes mainly on clay courts in America and Europe. So she defeated Jana Novotná in the semifinals in Houston in 1993 after defending nine match points and moved into the final, which she lost to Conchita Martínez . In 1994 she returned the favor when she defeated Martinez in Houston and then won the final with a two-set win over Mary Pierce . During this time, Hack was regularly to be found in a quarter-finals or semi-finals in the clay court season. She defeated world-class players like Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , Manuela Maleeva or Mary Joe Fernández .

Hack was therefore also used in the Fed Cup . She was part of the victorious German team at the 1992 Federation Cup alongside Graf, Huber and Rittner ; however, it was not used in the final.

In 1995, after winning a tournament in Jakarta, Indonesia, she was briefly number two in German women's tennis behind world number one Steffi Graf. Hack was listed in 13th place in the world rankings, ahead of Anke Huber. She also took part in the Masters in New York at the end of the year, but lost in the first round to Kimiko Date with 3: 6, 0: 6.

The jump into the top ten was denied to her because of her deficits on hard courts and because of injuries. She ended her career after failing again early as a seeded player at the indoor tournament in Zurich in autumn 1996 and at the subsequent Australian Open . Sabine Hack won four WTA titles in singles and one in doubles in her professional career.

Private

Sabine Hack, who now lives in Sarasota County (Florida), is married and has two children. From 1996 to 2002 she ran a small residential complex for vacationers, the "Turtle Beach House". Since then she has been running two children's fashion stores.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	December 8, 1991	São Paulo	WTA Tier V	sand	Veronika Martinek	6: 3, 7: 5
2.	October 31, 1993	Curitiba	WTA Tier IV	sand	Florencia Labat	6: 2, 6: 0
3.	March 27, 1994	Houston	WTA Tier II	sand	Mary Pierce	7: 5, 6: 4
4th	January 8, 1995	Jakarta	WTA Tier III	Hard court	Irina Spîrlea	2: 6, 7: 6 6 , 6: 4

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	October 31, 1993	Curitiba	WTA Tier IV	sand	Veronika Martinek	Claudia Chabalgoity Andrea Vieira	6: 2, 7: 6 4

Web links

• WTA profile Sabine Hack (English)
• ITF profile of Sabine Hack (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Sabine Hack (English)