Tornado Alicia Black (born May 12, 1998) is an American former tennis player.
She was taught by
Rick Macci
Rick Macci (born December 7, 1954) is an American tennis coach and former player. He is a United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) Master Professional, and seven-time USPTA national coach of the year who has trained five number one ra ...
, a former tennis player. Macci taught many people including Serena and Venus Williams.
Black won two singles titles on the
ITF Circuit in her career. On February 2, 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 404. On September 14, 2015, she peaked at No. 348 in the doubles rankings.
She was runner-up at the
2013 Junior US Open, losing to
Ana Konjuh
Ana Konjuh (; born 27 December 1997) is a Croatian tennis player.
A successful junior player, Konjuh won both the singles and doubles junior events at the Australian Open in January 2013 and, as a result, moved up to No. 1 in the ITF Junior w ...
in three sets.
Black made her
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour.
WTA Tour tourna ...
main-draw debut at the
2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel
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. Having been awarded a
wildcard
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* Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
* Wild card (sports), a tournament or playoff place awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal pla ...
, she played Serbian sixth seed
Bojana Jovanovski Bojana may refer to
Places
* Bojana (river), a river in Albania and Montenegro
* Ada Bojana / Bojana Island
Name
* Bojana (given name), a Slavic given name
* People
** Bojana Atanasovska
** Bojana Bobusic
** Bojana Jovanovski
** Bojana Novakovic
* ...
in the first round, losing in straight sets.
Tornado and her younger sister
Hurricane Tyra had at one point been referred to as "the next
Williams sisters
The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams (b. 1981), twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), both of whom were co ...
".
In 2017, she was sidelined by a hip injury. Black used GoFundMe to get the $40,000 needed for the hip surgery.
Her last match on the circuit so far took place in March 2017.
ITF finals
Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals
Singles
References
External links
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1998 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Boca Raton, Florida
American female tennis players
African-American female tennis players
Tennis people from Florida
21st-century African-American sportspeople
21st-century African-American women
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