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, 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). 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.
In August of 2005, Black announced that she would marry her longtime boyfriend, Australian mental and fitness trainer Brett Stephens.
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].
