Top Zimbabwean female tennis player Cara Black is currently having a rough ride in the WTA Tour this year, The Herald reported on Tuesday.

The 31-year-old doubles specialist hasn't been having the best of good times in the tough world of professional tennis of late since she split up with her long-time partner Liezel Huber of the United States last month.

Huber late last month stunned the tennis world when she announced that her five-year "marriage" with Black was coming to an end, as they had agreed to go their separate ways by mutual consent.

And following the termination of their partnership after having played together on Tour for the first four months of the year, Black and Huber have competed with a set of different new partners in different tournaments overseas.

Zimbabwe's Cara Black (R) talks with Russia's Vesnina Elena during the competition against China's Zheng Jie and Chinese Taipei's Chan Yung-jan during the first round of women's doubles of the Madrid WTA Open in Madrid, capital of Spain, May 9, 2010.

In fact, Zimbabwe's Black has been forced to play with two different partners on Tour since she parted ways with Huber and has been finding the going tough.

The end of last month first saw Black combining forces with Israel's Sahar Peer and the duo competed in a WTA Tour tournament in Stuttgart, Germany.

In Stuttgart, Black and Peer, who were seeded second, managed to fight all their way to the semi-finals where they lost to the top-seeded pair of Gisela Gulko and Flavia Penetta 7-5, 6-4.

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