Cara Black

Cara Black
Country	Zimbabwe
Residence	London, England
Date of birth	February 17, 1979 (1979-02-17) (age 29)
Place of birth	Harare, Zimbabwe
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight	55 kg (120 lb)
Turned pro	1998
Plays	Right; Two-handed backhand
Career prize money	$ 5,259,349
Singles
Career record:	312–239
Career titles:	1 (6 in ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 31 (March 15, 1999)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2nd (00, 01, 02, 04)
French Open	4th (2001)
Wimbledon	3rd (1998, 2003, 2005)
US Open	2nd (1998, 2002, 2004)
Major tournaments
Olympic Games	2r (2004)
Doubles
Career record:	557–225
Career titles:	46 (10 in ITF)
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (October 17, 2005)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	W (2007)
French Open	F (2005)
Wimbledon	W (2004, 2005, 2007)
US Open	W (2008)
WTA Championships	W (2007, 2008)
Mixed Doubles
Career record:
Career titles:	3
Highest ranking:
Grand Slam mixed results
Australian Open	QF (2005, 2008)
French Open	W (2003)
Wimbledon	W (2004)
US Open	W (2008)
Infobox last updated on: 3 December 2008.

Cara Black (born February 17, 1979 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She is the current World No.1 in Doubles.

[edit] Career

As the daughter of Don and Velia Black, the tennis-playing Cara is the younger sister of Wayne Black and Byron Black, both professional male tennis players. All three compete mostly in doubles; Wayne was the 2001 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion and Byron was the 1994 French Open winner.

Cara also won four Grand Slam women's doubles titles in her career: Wimbledon 2004, 2005, and 2007 and Australian Open 2007. She has won 3 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in her career, 2 of them partnering with her brother Wayne: the 2002 French Open & the 2004 Wimbledon Championships (they reached the final at the 2004 French Open and they reached the semifinals at the 2003 French Open & 2003 U.S. Open),and the most recent one with Leander Paes of India : 2008 U.S. Open. She also reached the 2000 U.S. Open doubles final with Elena Likhovtseva.

In August 2005, Black announced that she would marry her longtime boyfriend, Australian mental and fitness trainer Brett Stephens. ^[1] In November that year, 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.^[2]

2007 saw Black come back to partner Liezel Huber. They came together successfully, winning the 2007 Australian Open and triumphing at 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].^[3]

Black represented Zimbabwe at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.^[4] She lost to 2nd seeded Jelena Janković from Serbia in the first round on August 11, 2008.She teamed up with Leander Paes from India for the mixed doubles at the US Open and won it beating Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray in the finals.

[edit] Grand Slam women's doubles finals (7)

[edit] Wins (5)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
2004	Wimbledon	Rennae Stubbs	Liezel Huber Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 7–6
2005	Wimbledon (2)	Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo	6–2, 6–1
2007	Australian Open	Liezel Huber	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
2007	Wimbledon (3)	Liezel Huber	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
2008	US Open	Liezel Huber	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–3, 7–6

[edit] Runner-ups (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
2000	U.S. Open	Elena Likhovtseva	Julie Halard-Decugis Ai Sugiyama	6–0, 1–6, 6–1
2005	French Open	Liezel Huber	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 6–3, 6–3

[edit] WTA Titles (56)

[edit] Singles (7)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
1.	March 19, 1995	Gabarone	Hard	Linda Jansson	6–4 6–2
2.	March 26, 1995	Harare	Hard	Karen Van Der Merwe	6–1, 6–2
3.	May 12, 1996	Nitra	Clay	Zuzana Valekova	walkover
4.	February 2, 1997	Mission	Hard	Keri Phebus	6–3, 6–3
5.	March 30, 1997	Dinard	Clay Indoors	Magalie Lamarre	4–6, 6–4, 6–2
6.	October 3, 1999	Santa Clara	Hard	Anna Smashnova	6–2, 6–1
7.	September 15, 2002	Waikoloa	Hard	Lisa Raymond	7–6, 6–4

[edit] Doubles (56)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in final	Score in final
1.	Mar. 27, 1994	Nairobi	Hard	Nannie de Villiers	Sybille Seyfried Magüi Serna	6–2, 6–2
2.	Apr. 2, 1995	Nairobi	Hard	Elissa Burton	Lucinda Gibbs Giselle Swart	6–3, 6–2
3.	Apr. 21, 1996	Gelos	Clay	Nirupama Vaidyanathan	Amélie Mauresmo Isabelle Taesch	7–6, 6–3
4.	Nov. 11, 1996	São Paulo	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Ľudmila Cervanová Zuzana Valeková	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
5.	Nov. 18, 1996	São Paulo	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Miriam D’Agostini Vanessa Menga	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
6.	Jan. 6, 1997	Delray Beach	Hard	Irina Selyutina	Brie Rippner Paige Yaroshuk	6–3, 6–3
7.	Apr. 7, 1997	Athens	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Virag Csurgo Svetlana Krivencheva	6–3, 6–4
8.	Aug. 18, 1997	Kiev	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Natalia Egorova Olga Ivanova	6–2, 6–4
9.	Sep. 22, 1997	Tucumán	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Miriam D’Agostini Vanessa Menga	6–3, 6–1
10.	Sep. 28, 1998	Santa Clara	Hard	Irina Selyutina	Maureen Drake Lindsay Lee-Waters	6–4, 5–7, 6–3
11.	Jan. 3, 2000	Auckland	Hard	Alexandra Fusai	Barbara Schwartz Patricia Wartusch	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
12.	Jan. 7, 2001	Hobart	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Ruxandra Dragomir Virginia Ruano Pascual	6–4, 6–1
13.	Apr. 30, 2001	Hamburg	Clay	Elena Likhovtseva	Květa Hrdličková Barbara Rittner	6–2, 4–6, 6–2
14.	May 14, 2001	Rome	Clay	Elena Likhovtseva	Paola Suárez Patricia Tarabini	6–1, 6–1
15.	Jun. 11, 2001	Birmingham	Grass	Elena Likhovtseva	Kimberly Po Nathalie Tauziat	6–1, 6–1
16.	Jul. 30, 2001	San Diego	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Martina Hingis Anna Kournikova	6–4, 1–6, 6–4
17.	Aug. 19, 2001	New Haven	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Jelena Dokić Nadia Petrova	6–0, 3–6, 6–2
18.	Sep. 17, 2001	Tokyo (Princess)	Hard (I)	Liezel Huber	Kim Clijsters Ai Sugiyama	6–1, 6–3
19.	Apr. 1, 2002	Porto	Clay	Irina Selyutina	Kristie Boogert Magüi Serna	7–6, 6–4
20.	Sep. 23, 2002	Bali	Hard	Virginia Ruano Pascual	Svetlana Kuznetsova Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6–2, 6–3
21.	Jan. 6, 2003	Hobart	Hard	Elena Likhovtseva	Barbara Schett Patricia Wartusch	7–5, 7–6
22.	Jul. 21, 2003	Stanford	Hard	Lisa Raymond	Yoon-Jeong Cho Francesca Schiavone	7–6, 6–1
23.	Jan. 12, 2004	Sydney	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Dinara Safina Meghann Shaughnessy	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
24.	Feb. 3, 2004	Tokyo	Carpet (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Elena Likhovtseva Magdalena Maleeva	6–0, 6–1
25.	Feb. 16, 2004	Antwerp	Hard (i)	Els Callens	Myriam Casanova Eleni Daniilidou	6–2, 6–1
26.	Jun. 21, 2004	Wimbledon	Grass	Rennae Stubbs	Liezel Huber Ai Sugiyama	6–3, 7–6
27.	Jul. 26, 2004	San Diego	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	4–6, 6–1, 6–4
28.	Oct. 4, 2004	Filderstadt	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Julia Schruff	6–3, 6–2
29.	Oct. 18, 2004	Zürich	Hard (i)	Rennae Stubbs	Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suárez	6–4, 6–4
30.	Feb. 14, 2005	Antwerp	Hard (I)	Els Callens	Anabel Medina Garrigues Dinara Safina	3–6, 6–4, 6–4
31.	May 9, 2005	Rome	Clay	Liezel Huber	Maria Kirilenko Anabel Medina Garrigues	6–0, 4–6, 6–1
32.	Jun. 20, 2005	Wimbledon	Grass	Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova Amélie Mauresmo	6–2, 6–1
33.	Jul. 25, 2005	Stanford	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Elena Likhovtseva Vera Zvonareva	6–3, 7–5
34.	Oct. 17, 2005	Zürich	Hard (I)	Rennae Stubbs	Daniela Hantuchová Ai Sugiyama	6–7, 7–6, 6–3
35.	Oct. 31, 2005	Philadelphia	Hard (I)	Rennae Stubbs	Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur	6–4, 7–6
36.	Jul. 31, 2006	San Diego	Hard	Rennae Stubbs	Anna-Lena Grönefeld Meghann Shaughnessy	6–2, 6–2
37.	Oct. 16, 2006	Zürich	Hard (I)	Rennae Stubbs	Liezel Huber Katarina Srebotnik	7–5, 7–5
38.	Jan. 15, 2007	Melbourne	Hard	Liezel Huber	Yung-Jan Chan Chia-Jung Chuang	6–4, 6–7, 6–1
39.	Feb. 5, 2007	Paris	Carpet	Liezel Huber	Gabriela Navrátilová Vladimíra Uhlířová	6–2, 6–0
40.	Feb. 12, 2007	Antwerp	Hard (I)	Liezel Huber	Elena Likhovtseva Elena Vesnina	7–5, 4–6, 6–1
41.	Feb. 19, 2007	Dubai	Hard	Liezel Huber	Svetlana Kuznetsova Alicia Molik	7–6, 6–4
42.	Jun. 25, 2007	Wimbledon	Grass	Liezel Huber	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
43.	Jul. 30, 2007	San Diego	Hard	Liezel Huber	Victoria Azarenka Anna Chakvetadze	7–5, 6–4
44.	Oct. 8, 2007	Moscow	Carpet (i)	Liezel Huber	Victoria Azarenka Tatiana Poutchek	4–6, 6–1, [10-7]
45.	Oct. 28, 2007	Linz	Hard (i)	Liezel Huber	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	6–2, 3–6, [10-8]
46.	Nov. 11, 2007	Madrid	Hard (i)	Liezel Huber	Katarina Srebotnik Ai Sugiyama	5–7, 6–3, [10-8]
47.	Feb. 17, 2008	Antwerp	Hard (i)	Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Ai Sugiyama	6–1, 6–3
48.	Mar. 1, 2008	Dubai	Hard	Liezel Huber	Yan Zi Zheng Jie	7–5, 6–2
49.	May 11, 2008	Berlin	Clay	Liezel Huber	Nuria Llagostera Vives María José Martínez Sánchez	3–6, 6–2, [10-2]
50.	June 15, 2008	Birmingham	Grass	Liezel Huber	Virginia Ruano Pascual Séverine Brémond	6–2, 6–1
51.	June 21, 2008	Eastbourne	Grass	Liezel Huber	Květa Peschke Rennae Stubbs	2–6, 6–0, [10-8]
52.	July 20, 2008	Stanford	Hard	Liezel Huber	Elena Vesnina