Tornado Alicia Black
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Ronaldo
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Thanks for the tip. CBS Sports Network is showing 8 hrs of qualies today from 1-9 pm.
Sorry corrected CBS Sports not ESPN
Ronaldo
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This is the 2nd year CBS shows the qualifiers. Wonder when Tornado Alicia and Hurricane Tyra team up to form the Masters of Disaster?
http://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/index.html?promo=subnav
dominikk1985
Legend
nice Name
nice Name
Nah too prone to bad jokes
estigma2001
Hall of Fame
ALLA KUDRYAVTSEVA def TORNADO 64 63
captainbryce
Hall of Fame
They'll never make it. Too much pressure for them to live up to the success of the Williams sisters.
Ronaldo
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Need to face each other in 8 straight Slam finals.. Who does that?
bluetrain4
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nice Name
Didn't her parents name her that for potential marketing purposes? Or wasn't it changed for potential marketing purposes. I thought I saw something about this. I'll Google.
And I found this:
""I have a marketing degree . . . and I knew I needed to do something for them to stand out, and we thought it was cute," Gayal said. "[Tornado didn't like her name] a few years ago. Kids tease you. But now they understand it's marketing and it's very big to say a storm blew through the US Open.
"It's great for everybody, for publicity. Greg Norman was the Great White Shark. Sir Richard Branson said you have to have a brand to use. We don't want them to be the next Williams sisters or those African-American sisters. They're Tornado and Hurricane so people can identify them as something other than the next Venus and Serena. And what better marquee above the US Open than 'Tornado and Hurricane Black?'"
Sly said it was all a "part of the plan" when the girls were younger but that it made more sense as they got older.
"It was a little joke, but it turned out to be a pretty big deal," he said. "Yes, Tornado and Hurricane are names for marketable athletes, but that's a big part of it nowadays, and if you can get a good, strong name, all the better."
From the article at: http://espn.go.com/espnw/athletes-l...e-name-junior-girls-us-open-tennis-tournament
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dominikk1985
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hopefully they will become good but their parents seem to be seriously nuts. hopefully they don't end up with a psychological disorder like Michael Jackson or Jenny Capriati because they have been pushed so hard.
Extremely creative artists like Jackson are usually a little weird
Ronaldo
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One night only. The Heavenly Bodies meet The Natural Disasters in a doubles match for the ages.
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