Alicia Molik

Alicia Molik is an Australian former professional tennis player, born on 27 January 1981, who reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 6. She won the bronze medal in singles for Australia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by upsetting the then world No. 3 and reigning French Open champion Anastasia Myskina, and won the 2004 Zurich Open by beating Maria Sharapova in the final. She won Grand Slam doubles titles at the 2005 Australian Open with Svetlana Kuznetsova and at the 2007 French Open with Mara Santangelo, and reached three major mixed doubles finals. Shortly after the 2005 Australian Open she contracted an inner-ear infection that developed into vestibular neuronitis and kept her out of competition until May 2006. She retired in August 2008, returned in September 2009, played her last match at the 2011 Australian Open, and later became captain of the Cottesloe Tennis Club.