Cara Black
ITF | |
Highest ranking | No. 31 (15 March 1999) |
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Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004) |
French Open | 4R (2001) |
Wimbledon | 3R (1998, 2003, 2005) |
US Open | 2R (1998, 2002, 2004) |
Other tournaments | |
Olympic Games | 2R (2004) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 750–305 (71.1%) |
Career titles | 60 WTA, 11 ITF |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (17 October 2005) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (2007) |
French Open | F (2005) |
Wimbledon | W (2004, 2005, 2007) |
US Open | W (2008) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Tour Finals | W (2007, 2008, 2014) |
Mixed doubles | |
Career record | 88–48 |
Career titles | 5 |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Australian Open | W (2010) |
French Open | W (2002) |
Wimbledon | W (2004, 2010) |
US Open | W (2008) |
Cara Cavell Black (born 17 February 1979) is a Zimbabwean former professional
Personal life
Black was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to Donald and Velia Black. Her father and older brothers, Wayne and Byron Black, were all professional tennis players themselves. The siblings all competed mostly in doubles – Wayne was the 2001 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion[2] and Byron was the 1994 French Open winner.[3]
Black partnered with her brother Wayne to win the 2002 French Open and 2004 Wimbledon Championships mixed-doubles events. Black has also engaged in long-term partnerships with Irina Selyutina, Elena Likhovtseva, Rennae Stubbs, Liezel Huber, and most recently Sania Mirza.
In August 2005, Black announced that she would marry her longtime boyfriend, Australian mental and fitness trainer Brett Stephens.[4] The couple's son was born in 2012 following her break from tennis after Wimbledon 2011.[5]
Career
1996–2010
Cara has won five
From 1996 through to 2000, Black's debut years, she won 8 ITF doubles titles, 1 WTA doubles title in Auckland, and 4 ITF singles titles.
Her only WTA singles title came at Waikoloa in 2002. She also won a big ITF doubles tournament in Santa Clara in 1999. In November 2005, Black was runner-up in the WTA Championships doubles title. Australian Samantha Stosur and American Lisa Raymond defeated Australian Rennae Stubbs and Black 6–7 (5–7), 7–5, 6–4.[6]
In 2007, Black came back to partner Liezel Huber. They won the 2007 Australian Open and Wimbledon. The team ended the year as the number one team, winning the year-end championships over Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama 5–7, 6–3, [10–8].[7]
Black
in the finals.In 2009, she won five doubles titles leading to the year-end championships in Doha, Qatar.
Black started 2010 strongly by winning two tournaments leading up to the Australian Open, coming to the slam with an unbeaten record. Black made it to the finals in both the women's doubles and mixed doubles. She and Huber lost the women's doubles final to Venus and Serena Williams in straight sets, 4–6, 3–6. However, she and Leander Paes won the mixed doubles in straight sets. The victory marked Black's first mixed doubles victory at the Australian Open. The victory also completed a 'Career Grand Slam' in mixed doubles.
Black and Huber broke up as exclusive doubles partners in April 2010. Since then, Black has partnered with
However, Black continued her successful partnership with Paes in 2010 as the pair won the mixed-doubles title at Wimbledon and reached the quarterfinals at the US Open.
2011
Entering the 2011 season, Black continued her partnership with Australian Anastasia Rodionova where they reached the semifinal of the Brisbane International and lost in the first round of Sydney International.
During the
Then, Black did not play until June, where she returned at the
Going into the
2012
Black did not compete on the WTA Tour during 2012, and began playing again in October on two $25k events in Australia with Arina Rodionova. The pair won the title in Traralgon, defeating Ashleigh Barty and Sally Peers in the final. However, Black and Rodionova lost to the same team in the finals of Bendigo the following week. She finished the year ranked outside the world's top 600.
2013: Return to the top 20
During the 2013 season, Black had a significant comeback, as she returned to the
Black began working with Sania Mirza in September, with whom she ended up winning back to back Premier-5 tournaments in the far east. In Tokyo, Black and Mirza defeated the top seeded team of Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai in the semifinals before taking out Chan Hao-ching and Liezel Huber. It was Black's first Premier 5 title since 2009, and her second of the season. This was immediately followed by a win at the China Open, where en route to the final, they once again took out the top seeds of world number 1 team Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in the semifinals, before defeating Vera Dushevina and Arantxa Parra Santonja in the final. It was the first time since 2010 that Black had won back-to-back doubles titles, and it took her back up into the world's top 20, finishing the year ranked number 13 in the world.
Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 9 (5 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Runner-up | 2000 | US Open | Hard | Elena Likhovtseva | Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama |
0–6, 6–1, 1–6 |
Winner | 2004 | Wimbledon | Grass | Rennae Stubbs | Liezel Huber Ai Sugiyama |
6–3, 7–6(7–5) |
Runner-up | 2005 | French Open | Clay | Liezel Huber | Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez |
6–4, 3–6, 3–6 |
Winner | 2005 | Wimbledon | Grass | Liezel Huber | Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo |
6–2, 6–1 |
Winner | 2007 | Australian Open | Hard | Liezel Huber | 6–4, 6–7(4–7), 6–1 | |
Winner | 2007 | Wimbledon | Grass | Liezel Huber | Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama |
3–6, 6–3, 6–2 |
Winner | 2008 | US Open | Hard | Liezel Huber | Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur |
6–3, 7–6(10–8) |
Runner-up | 2009 | US Open | Hard | Liezel Huber | Serena Williams Venus Williams |
2–6, 2–6 |
Runner-up | 2010 | Australian Open | Hard | Liezel Huber | Serena Williams Venus Williams |
4–6, 3–6 |
Mixed doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)
By winning the 2010 Australian Open title, Black completed the mixed doubles Career Grand Slam. She became the sixth female player in history to achieve this.
Outcome | Year | Championship | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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Winner | 2002 | French Open | Clay | Wayne Black | Elena Bovina Mark Knowles |
6–3, 6–3 |
Runner-up | 2004 | French Open | Clay | Wayne Black | Tatiana Golovin Richard Gasquet |
3–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 2004 | Wimbledon | Grass | Wayne Black | Alicia Molik Todd Woodbridge |
3–6, 7–6(10–8), 6–4 |
Winner | 2008 | US Open | Hard | Leander Paes | Liezel Huber Jamie Murray |
7–6(8–6), 6–4 |
Runner-up | 2009 | Wimbledon | Grass | Leander Paes | Anna-Lena Grönefeld Mark Knowles |
5–7, 3–6 |
Runner-up | 2009 | US Open | Hard | Leander Paes | Travis Parrot |
2–6, 4–6 |
Winner | 2010 | Australian Open | Hard | Leander Paes | Ekaterina Makarova Jaroslav Levinský |
7–5, 6–3 |
Winner | 2010 | Wimbledon | Grass | Leander Paes | Lisa Raymond Wesley Moodie |
6–4, 7–6(7–5) |
Career statistics
Grand Slam tournament performance timelines
W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | P# | DNQ | A | Z# | PO | G | S | B | NMS | NTI | P | NH |
Doubles
Tournament | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | SR | W–L |
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Grand Slam tournaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Australian Open | Absent | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 2R | QF | W | QF | QF | F | QF | A | 3R | QF | 1 / 15 | 31–14 | |||||
French Open | Absent | 1R | 2R | 3R | 3R | SF | 3R | F | QF | SF | SF | SF | 3R | A | A | QF | QF | 0 / 14 | 38–14 | |||||
Wimbledon
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Absent | 1R | 2R | 1R | 2R | SF | 3R | W | W | SF | W | SF | SF | 3R | 3R | A | 2R | 2R | 3 / 16 | 43–13 | ||||
US Open | Absent | 1R | 1R | F | SF | SF | SF | 3R | QF | QF | 2R | W | F | SF | A | A | 3R | SF | 1 / 15 | 46–14 | ||||
Win–loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 5–4 | 8–4 | 10–4 | 12–4 | 10–3 | 15–3 | 12–4 | 17–2 | 17–3 | 14–4 | 13–4 | 5–2 | 0–0 | 8–4 | 11–4 | 5 / 60 | 158–55 |
Year-end championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tour Championships
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Absent | QF | F | F | SF | F | F | F | W | W | F | A | A | A | A | W | 3 / 11 | 15–8 | ||||||
Career statistics | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | No. | |
Titles | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 71 | |
Finals reached | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 124 | |
Overall W–L | 1–1 | 6–1 | 9–2 | 16–7 | 19–7 | 18–19 | 28–26 | 32–21 | 52–18 | 46–19 | 48–24 | 45–15 | 59–18 | 43–19 | 69–14 | 66–14 | 49–16 | 41–16 | 9–7 | 7–1 | 38–17 | 49–21 | 750–303 | |
Year-end ranking | – | – | 479 | 306 | 159 | 78 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 77 | 497 | 13 | 4 | No. 1 |
Mixed doubles
Tournament | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | Career SR | Career win–loss |
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Australian Open | A | A | 2R | 1R | 1R | 2R | 2R | QF | 1R | 1R | QF | 2R | W | 2R | 1R | 1R | QF | 1 / 15 | 16–14 |
French Open | A | 3R | 3R | 1R | 1R | W | SF | F | 2R | 1R | 2R | 2R | QF | A | SF | 2R | A | 1 / 14 | 23–13 |
Wimbledon
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3R | 3R | 2R | 3R | 2R | 3R | W | 2R | SF | QF | 3R | F | W | QF | 3R | 2R | 3R | 2 / 16 | 38–14 |
US Open | A | 2R | 2R | QF | QF | SF | 2R | 2R | 1R | 1R | W | F | QF | A | 1R | QF | A | 1 / 14 | 24–13 |
Grand Slam MDR | 0 / 1 | 0 / 3 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 2 / 4 | 0 / 2 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 / 2 | 5 / 60 | N / A |
Grand Slam W–L | 2–1 | 5–3 | 5–4 | 4–4 | 3–4 | 11–3 | 12–3 | 8–4 | 6–4 | 3–4 | 11–3 | 10–4 | 14–2 | 2–2 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 4–2 | N / A | 101–54 |
References
- ^ "Cara Black Tennis Player Profile | ITF". www.itftennis.com. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Wayne Black Tennis Player Profile | ITF". www.itftennis.com. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "French Open". www.itftennis.com. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ Welcome to the Financial Gazette Online! Archived 15 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Herald | Zimbabwe's largest daily newspaper".
- ^ "Mauresmo wins biggest title of career". The Age. Melbourne. 15 November 2005.
- ^ Women's Tennis Association (11 November 2007). "Black, Huber Enjoy Season-Ending Glory in Madrid". Women's Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2007.
- ^ "Zimbabwean Tennis Star Ready for Her Third Olympic Appearance", Xinhua, 30 April 2008
External links
- Cara Black at the Women's Tennis Association
- Cara Black at the International Tennis Federation
- Cara Black at the Billie Jean King Cup
- Cara Black at ESPN.com
- Cara Black at Olympedia
- Cara Black at Olympics.com