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Cara Black

Overview

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

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 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles in her career, parterning 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). She also reached the 2000 U.S. Open doubles final with Elena Likhovtseva.

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. http://www.theage.com.au/news/tennis/mauresmo-wins-biggest-title-of-career/2005/11/14/1131951100524.html

In August 2005, Black announced that she would marry her longtime boyfriend, Australian mental and fitness trainer Brett Stephens. http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2005/August/August4/9125.shtml

Grand Slam women's doubles finals (5)

Wins (4)
Runner-ups (1)

WTA Titles (52)

Singles (7)
Doubles (45)

Grand Slam record

Australian Open *Doubles champion: 2007 (w/L. Huber)

French Open *Doubles semi-finalist: 2003 *Mixed Doubles champion: 2002 (w/W. Black)

Wimbledon *Doubles champion: 2004 (w/R. Stubbs), 2005, 2007 (both w/ L. Huber) *Doubles semi-finalist: 2002 *Mixed Doubles champion: 2004 (w/W. Black)

U.S. Open *Doubles semi-finalist: 2001, 2002, 2003 *Doubles quarter-finalist: 2005

Women's Doubles performance timeline

This timeline is valid as of September 9, 2007.

Mixed Doubles performance timeline

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...Ram and Dechy teamed up together again to compete in the 2007 Wimbledon championships, losing in the third round to 9th-ranked Marcin Matkowski and Cara Black 6-3, 6-4....

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...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...

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...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...

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...In that semifinal against number 3 and second seed Maria Sharapova, she got a set point in the first set at 6-5, just to lose the match in straight sets (6-7, 2-6). *Also in Zürich, Srebotnik and Liezel Huber lost the doubles final to Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs (5-7, 5-7). *In Linz, Srebotnik lost in the first round to Russian Anna Chakvetadze (5-7, 2-6), but she reached the doubles final with Corina Morariu, losing to regular doubles duo Lisa Raymond/Samantha Stosur (3-6, 0-6)...

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...* 2007 Pilot Pen Tennis tournament, won the doubles title partnering Italian Mara Santangelo, beating the top seeds Liezel Huber and Cara Black 6-1, 6-2 * 2007 East West Bank Classic, beats Martina Hingis for the second time in a row in the second round 6-2, 2-6, 6-4...

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...She entered the doubles competition of the New Haven tournament, along with partner Lisa Raymond. However, her return was cut short when she and Raymond lost to top seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber by a score of 6-7 (1), 6-3, 10-4. She hopes to participate in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China...

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...Playing 6 matches against five seeded teams, Janković and Murray lost a set in five of their six matches but beat three former top-ranked doubles players and six former Grand Slam doubles champions, including eventual Wimbledon women's doubles champion Cara Black. In addition, she beat Olympic gold medalist Sun Tiantian. In the semifinals, the team beat Nestor/Likhovtseva, the 2007 Australian Open mixed doubles champions...

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...At Roland Garros, Golovin won the mixed doubles trophy with Richard Gasquet, as a Wild Card team, defeating Cara Black/Wayne Black. They became the youngest champions in 23 years (16 for Golovin, 17 for Gasquet)...

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...She has twelve doubles titles, eight of them with Meghann Shaughnessy including the prestigious year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 2004, where they beat Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs in the final 7-5, 6-2. She also has victories at the Tier I events in Moscow, Miami, Berlin, Rome and Montreal, with all but the Montreal title being with Meghann Shaughnessy and the aforementioned other one being with Martina Navrátilová...

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2006 began well with the much-improved Chinese rising star qualifying for Gold Coast with wins over Cara Black, Kaia Kanepi (again) and Casey Dell'Acqua. But Top 20 player Francesca Schiavone was a challenge too far in the main draw first round, defeating Yuan for the loss of just five games...

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...*1999: Tokyo with Novotna (lost to Davenport and Zvereva) *1999: French Open with Anna Kournikova (lost to Venus Williams and Serena Williams) *2000: Sydney with Mary Pierce (lost to Julie Halard-Decugis and Ai Sugiyama) *2000: Australian Open with Pierce (lost to Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs) *2000: Moscow with Kournikova (lost to Halard-Decugis and Sugiyama) *2001: San Diego with Kournikova (lost to Cara Black and Elena Likhovtseva) *2002: Sydney with Kournikova (lost to Raymond and Stubbs)

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...Due to the rain delays throughout the week, the two had to play both their quarter-final match (against the Polish/Zimbabwean pairing of Marcin Matkowski and Cara Black) and semi-final match against Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva on the same day. The pair made it to the final and beat Jonas Björkman and Alicia Molik, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, making Murray the first British player to win a senior Wimbledon title in 20 years...

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...Sugiyama and Daniela Hantuchová reached the quarterfinals of the Grand Slam event, losing to eventual champions Cara Black and Liezel Huber. In Tokyo, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to world number one Maria Sharapova 4-6, 6-1, 6-0...
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