Zimbabwean tennis player Kara Black during her career managed to win many high-profile and prestigious titles and awards. From early childhood, her love of tennis led to a bright future in the world of sports.
Biography
The future popular tennis player was born on February 17, 1979 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Since 1982, this city, the capital of Zimbabwe, has been called Harare.
In the family of Velia and Don Black, Kara was the third child. Her two older brothers Byron and Wayne also played tennis professionally, but have now left a sports career. Kara's mother worked as a teacher for a long time, and her father, already deceased, was an amateur tennis player. He performed under the flag of Rhodesia and twice reached the third round at Wimbledon.
It was his love of tennis that was passed on to the children and became decisive in choosing a future profession. The Black family owned an avocado plantation, where Don built grass courts for children. Kara admitted that they are still her favorite courts.
According to Kara, her main qualities are gaiety, relaxation and ease to climb.
Career
Zimbabwean tennis player in different years wore the title of the first racket of the world in the doubles ranking, finalists of 7 Grand Slam tournaments; she was the winner of 10 Grand Slam tournaments (half in doubles, half in mixed doubles), three-time winner of the WTA final doubles (2007, 2008, 2014) and winner of 61 WTA tournaments.
Junior career
She made her debut in 1992, winning the Ghana Junior Championship in singles and doubles. Then she begins to gain experience in secondary competitions. In 1994, she already had enough ratings to take part in the junior grand slam tournament.
The next step is the participation in 1997 in competitions of the second - third category in South America. This is followed by a victory in the Astrid Bowl, a loss in the final of Roland Garros to the future first racket of the world Justine Henin and a victory in the next Grand Slam tournament. In the same fall, Kara Black again reached the final of the Grand Slam tournament and won again. Until the end of the year, she chalks up the victory in the tournament in Mexico and the Orange Bowl semifinal. This allows her to complete 1997 in the status of the first racket of the world junior ranking in singles.
The pair career of the tennis player was developing just as successfully. Cara Black and Polish Alexander Olsch win in 1995 at a tournament in Belgium, then with the Brazilian Miriam D'Agostini, she reaches the semi-finals of Roland Garros. At the end of 1996, her collaboration with the Kazakh woman Irina Selyutina began, and already in 1997 the duo won 17 matches in a row.
The completion of the junior career of a Zimbabwean tennis player takes place at the Orange Bowl, where the duet together with Selyutina reached the semifinals.
Adult Tour Career
The first experience in small competitions in his native Harare was unsuccessful. But already in the second tournament, Kara Black wins. By 1996, the young athlete was gradually starting to take part in competitions outside of Africa, at first insignificant, gradually gaining experience and increasing her own rating.
After a series of victories at tournaments in Brazil at the end of 1996, Kara Black is among the four hundred strongest singles on the planet. And already in January-February, after a successful performance at ITF tournaments, an athlete rises in the ranking and enters the Top250 single ranking list, but already in November she is firmly entrenched in Top200.
This allows the Zimbabwean to make its debut at the Grand Slam competitions among adult participants already in 1998, but Black stops a step away from becoming the main base, losing to Canadian Yana Needli. In the same year, she takes part in the WTA, Roland Garros, which allows her to restore the rating, and take part in the French Grand Slam tournament, finally to become the basis and win her first major victory. This again pushes her rating up, allowing her to gain a foothold in Pinterest.
In August, after the WTA in Boston and the ITF in the Bronx, Kara Black approaches the US Open as 52 world racket. Until the end of the year, she improves this result, ending it in the status of 44 racquets.
In 1999, Kara and Wayne were invited to the Zimbabwe national team for the Holman Cup season. Brother and sister lose all single rounds and win one in the mixed doubles.
This year, Kara hosts many tournaments to consolidate the results already achieved, but according to the results she drops to the 57th place in the world ranking.
By 2003, Kara Black was secured in singles in the middle peasant status of the first hundred of the rating, but in subsequent years she was increasingly harassed by failures and losses. By 2006, the situation was getting worse, and the rating slipped to 357 line. Having slightly improved it and entrenched in Pinterest by the end of the year, the Zimbabwean subsequently only occasionally began to appear in the networks of single-player tournaments.
Her further career was closely connected with the doubles, the results of which only improved from year to year.
The most memorable moment of his sports biography, Kara Black considers the win of the junior Wimbledon.
