 Liesel had already been named tennis champion of Austria in 1930 and travelled around the world. So she left a false trail for the Nazis by pretending to play a tournament in Germany. But alone and armed with a bundle of tennis rackets, she instead made her way out of Austria before ending up in London. She was a bit of a star in Austria. Everyone would have known who she was. She appeared in magazines. She modelled tennis fashion in a sports magazine.