Germany's Sabine Lisicki reacts during the Women's Singles first round match at the WTA Tour tennis tournament in Berlin. Lisicki has announced a comeback to tennis from maternity leave in October ...

Prediction: Zanevska in 3 Sabine Lisicki vs Anna Blinkova Head-to-head: first meeting The 2013 Wimbledon finalist came back after an 18-month break in May last year, playing sparingly since.

Home-favourite Lisicki was heavily fancied to go far in the clay-court event in Nuremberg, but she was defeated 6-2 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (7-3) by a player 78 places below her in the WTA world rankings.