To reach the quarter final, she had defeated Anna Chakvetadze in the first round, Patricia Mayr in the second round, the recent French Open champion and No. 5 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the third round, and 9th seed Caroline Wozniacki in the 4th round. Seeded 23rd, Lisicki advanced to the second round at the 2009 US Open, but lost to qualifier Anastasia Rodionova. On Rodionova's match point, Lisicki slipped while going to return a backhand and injured _her_ left ankle. <sep>, Pronoun: her <sep>, A: Rodionova <sep>, B: Lisicki