Adams was the first Black tennis player to win both the Illinois High School State Tennis Championship in '83 and then the NCAA Doubles Championship in '87, all while attending Northwestern University.
She then went pro, scoring 20 career doubles titles before hanging up her racket to coach and commentate.
Among all of her firsts, sometimes she was the only. She was the only Black girl on the team and the only Black woman on the court.Adams became the first Black person and the only former player to serve as president of the USTA. This was before going global as the current Vice President of the International Tennis Federation where she continues to call for racial and gender equality on and off the court, while working to get more women in leadership.
"Being decision makers of sport, we need more women, we need more diversity of thought," Adams said. Her advice to women,"Make sure you're prepared when you walk in that room so you can open the door for someone to come and join you.""I'm born and raised on the West Side of Chicago and that's where my blood, sweat and tears will always live," She said.
Adams runs a tennis program in Harlem in New York putting racquets in the hands of kids and using tennis as a vehicle to get them college scholarships.
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