Last weekend Tornado Alicia Black traveled to a junior tennis tournament in Orlando, Fla., as the coach of a 10-year-old player. She hopes it was her last coaching job for the next 15 years.
The next time she goes to a tournament, perhaps in six months, Black expects to be playing.
A onetime prodigy whose playing career was halted two years ago by a hip injury she could not afford to fix, Black has received financial donations in recent weeks to pay for an operation and the six-month rehabilitation necessary to get back on the women’s professional tennis tour.