Lizette Cabrera

Australian tennis player Lizette Cabrera competing on the WTA Tour.

Lizette Faith Cabrera was born on 19 December 1997 in Townsville, Australia, and is listed at 1.68 metres. She began playing tennis at age five and developed through the Queensland and Australian junior systems. As a junior, she represented Australia in the 14-and-under World Junior Tennis qualifying campaign and was selected for the finals in 2011. She also won the 14-and-under Optus Championships alongside fellow Queenslander Priscilla Hon in 2011. Cabrera has Filipino heritage, according to reputable player-profile reporting.

Cabrera identified around age 12 that she was capable of pursuing tennis professionally. Her major breakthrough came in 2016, when she improved her ranking by more than 800 places and won two professional titles. She made her WTA main-draw debut in Brisbane in 2017 and recorded her first WTA-level singles win against Misaki Doi in Hobart. That year she also made her Australian Open main-draw debut and reached the quarterfinals of the Guangzhou International, defeating then-world No.30 Anett Kontaveit en route.

Her strongest early professional season was 2019. Cabrera won ITF singles titles in Granby, Darwin and Bendigo, collected doubles titles in Darwin and Caserta, and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No.131. She then reached another significant ranking peak of world No.119 on 3 February 2020. Her 2020 season included a WTA quarterfinal at the Hobart International, where she was defeated by Elena Rybakina.

Cabrera has continued to combine singles and doubles competition across the WTA, WTA 125 and ITF circuits. She reached the Australian Open mixed-doubles quarterfinals with John-Patrick Smith in 2023. In 2024 she was a singles finalist at three ITF events and won doubles titles in Sydney and Roehampton. In 2025 she won singles titles at Swan Hill, Mildura and Launceston, plus the Mildura doubles title with Gabriella Da Silva-Fick. In March 2026 she won the Burnie International and then defended the Launceston International crown, becoming the first two-time women’s singles champion in that tournament’s history.

Her playing identity is based on right-handed groundstrokes, a preferred two-handed backhand and hard-court experience. Tennis Australia lists Rafael Nadal as her tennis hero and identifies dancing, beach time and spending time with friends and family among her publicly stated interests. As of 18 August 2026, the supplied status is Active; public ranking databases and tournament reporting confirm competition during 2026, although the WTA profile displayed an inactive label at the time of research.