Name: Alicia Molik

Born: 27.01.1981 in Adelaide, Australia

Height: 1,82 m

Weight: 72 kg

Residence: Melbourne, Australia

Parents: Father: Andrew Molik

                Mother: Teresa Molik

Siblings: Brother: Richard Molik is 2 Years older than her

Pets: A West-Highland white terrier

Favourite Music: Coldplay, U2, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams

Favourite Movies/TV-Series: The Castle, Kath & Kim

Favourite Food: Thai and Japanese Cuisine

Favourite Drinks: Red Wine, especially Shiraz from the Barossa Valley

Likes: spending time with friends, going to the beach, riding a bike,

            attending football games

A closer look on Alicia's career

written by Mark

Alicia Molik what can we say born in a sleepy suburb of Adelaide in January 1981 to the dizzying heights of women’s tennis. Alicia started tennis when she was a little girl in Adelaide and fell in love with the game of champions. Showing great promise for the game Alicia found the awesome coach of David Taylor they have worked together for many years and don’t intend of stopping.

Alicia is the brightest talent in Australian Women’s Tennis since the great Evonne Goolagong Cawley, showing prowess on her serve Alicia she stands tall waiting for a return from the other players (if they return it). Alicia's rise in the game of tennis has been steady and then end of last year was as rapid as a NASA rocket. Winning Australia's only tennis medal of the Athens 2004 Olympic games was a highpoint in her career and lets hope for many more. January was special for Alicia as she stared an amazing 12 match win streak from the first match of the season until Lindsay Davenport stopped Alicia in the quarter finals of the Australian Open 9-7 in the third set, the only player to beat Alicia on home soil this season.

I have been quite lucky in my tennis watching career in seeing Alicia live on court 4 times and all 4 times I have not been disappointed she won on all 4 occasions with a booming serve and deviating ground strokes. Alicia is one of the nicest women on the tour and devotes her time well to all of her fans in Australia and abroad, her laid back attitude and demean is refreshing. Alicia is the first Australian woman ranked in the top ten since Wendy Turnbull in the mid 1980's and the first women’s quarter finalist at the Australian Open since a young Anne Minter achieved the same feet in 1988 the year the great Steffi Graf won the golden grand slam (Alicia's idol).

Alicia has had many great wins in her short career over great champions and fellow top ten players. She beat a dejected Anastasia Myskina for the bronze medal at the Athens Olympics as well as fellow Russian, top ten player and two time grand slam finalist Elena Dementieva in the first round of the same tournament. Proving her success was not a fluke Alicia backed up the bronze with two tournament wins in succession at the Swiss Open Zurich tier one title, in the final beat recent Wimbledon Champion and another Russian sensation Maria Sharapova then went to Luxembourg for the Seat Open tier three title where she blitzed the field and then put herself into the worlds elite top ten.

Other wins in Alicia's career include Venus Williams at this years Australian Open in the 4th round, Daniela Hantuchova when she was in the top ten at the Hopman Cup and the Australian Open as well as the tier one tournament in Miami. Other great wins for Alicia include: Jelena Dokic, Sylvia Farina Elia, Amy Frazier (in the final of Hobart 2003, her first career title) and many other top players. Alicia is a real talent and watch this space because when she gets fit its only a matter of time before major tournaments come back down under.