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Cara Black makes tennis history
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| 04/08/2009 00:00:00 |
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by Nkanyiso Moyo |
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Number One ... Cara Black
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TENNIS ace Cara Black capped a weekend of sporting history for Zimbabwe when she became only the second woman in history to reach as many as 125 consecutive weeks as the highest ranked doubles player after the great Martina Navratilova.
She rose to number one player in the tennis doubles with American partner Liezel Huber on November 12, 2007, and 20 months later, they are still at the top.
Black and Huber can remain there much longer if they continue with their winning ways and perform better than last year in the forthcoming US Open.
But it could be years before she breaks the astonishing record of 237 weeks.
Black’s extra-ordinary accomplishment followed Saturday’s heroics by swimmer Kirsty Coventry at the Rome world swimming championships where she won gold in the 200m backstroke.
In winning, Coventry broke her own record set at the Beijing Olympics last year.
Top Six Number Ones
1-Martina Navratilova 237 weeks
2-Cara Black 125
3-Natasha Zvereva 124
4-Lisa Raymond 117
5-Arantxa Sanhchez Vicario 111
6-Liezel Huber 89
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