Katrina Adams

Katrina Adams of White Plains, NY, (formerly Chicago, Illinois) competed on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour for 12 years. She was ranked as high as No. 67 in singles and No. 8 in doubles. Adams captured 20 WTA doubles titles during her career. She is a former member of the WTA Board of Directors. The WTA presented her with the Player Service Award in 1996 and 1997.
Currently, Adams is serving a two-year term as Director at Large on the USTA (United States Tennis Association) Board of Directors. She previously served on the USTA Player Development Committee and the USTA Grievance Committee. She currently serves on the USTA Executive Committee and the USTA Budget Committee.
Adams also serves as a Color Analyst for the Tennis Channel and for World Team Tennis. Upon retiring from the professional tour, she was a USTA National Coach from 1999-2002 for the USA Tennis High Performance program.
Adams has given back to the game through grassroots participation in several non-profit organizations that develop tennis players. For 2005, she served as the spokesperson for the Althea Gibson Foundation. And she is currently the Executive Director for the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program.
As a junior player, Adams captured the Illinois State Singles Championship in 1983 and 1984. She also won the American Tennis Association Championship. Adams was named to the All-American Tennis Team in 1986 and 1987 while attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Adams was the ITCA Rookie
of the Year in 1986. She was the first African-American NCAA Doubles Champion in 1987 with partner Diane Donnelly. In 1998, Adams was inducted into the Northwestern University Hall of Fame and in 2005, Adams was inducted into the USTA/Midwest Section Hall of Fame.