Tornado Alicia Black Biography
Tornado Alicia Black (born May 12, 1998) is an American former tennis player.
She was taught by Rick Macci, a former tennis player. Macci taught many people including Serena and Venus Williams.
Black won two singles *les 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 in three sets.
Black made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2014 Abierto Mexicano Telcel. Having been awarded a wildcard, she played Serbian sixth seed Bojana Jovanovski 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".
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 *les, 1 runner-up)
Doubles: 1 (runner-up)
Junior Grand Slam tournament finals
Singles
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tornado Alicia Black.- Tornado Alicia Black at the Women's Tennis *ociation
- Tornado Alicia Black at the International Tennis Federation
- Official website
