Serena's loss was shocking, but not completely unexpected

Maybe it was this that made the reappearance of Sabine Lisicki, the nerveless conqueror of Serena less than 24 hours earlier, such an uncomplicated pleasure as she mixed power and finesse quite beautifully in her 6-3, 6-3 quarter-final defeat of young Serena Williams may have come into Wimbledon looking unbeatable, but Sabine Lisicki had other ideas about their fourth-round match. The 23rd-seeded German managed to pull off the upset of the tournament, bouncing the five-time Wimbledon champion, But having led 3-0 and 4-2 in the final set, she slipped out of the Championships, beaten 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 by Germany's Sabine Lisicki. It was a brilliant performance from Lisicki, a semi-finalist here in 2010, at her best on grass and a player who on herThe defending champion and five-time Wimbledon winner failed to close out a see-saw third set Monday, dropping the last four games to

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