Country (sports) | United States |
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Born | 21 March 1999 |
Plays | Right-handed |
Prize money | US$12,424 |
Singles | |
Career record | 64–48 (57.1%) |
Highest ranking | (No. 696 November 7, 2016) |
Current ranking | (No. 775 October 9, 2023) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
US Open Junior | QF (2015) |
Doubles | |
Highest ranking | (No. 777 March 6, 2016) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
US Open Junior | 1R (2015, 2016) |
Last updated on: 9 October 2023. |
Kylie McKenzie (born 21 March 1999) is an American tennis player from Arizona.[1]
From Phoenix, Arizona,[2] McKenzie joined the United States Tennis Association’s full-time training team in California at twelve years-old. She subsequently won the national under-16 championship at fifteen years-old.[3] McKenzie played in the 2015 US Girls’ singles, where she reached the quarter-final before losing to Fanny Stollar.[4]
Aged eighteen she transferred to the USTA facility in Orlando, Florida.[5] McKenzie alleged coach Anibal Aranda touched her vagina after a practice in November 2018 at the USTA's training center in Florida when she was nineteen years-old. McKenzie has since said that the sexual abuse had negatively affected her confidence, self-esteem and caused anxiety that had a detrimental effect on her tennis career.[6] The Police stated there was probable cause for a charge of battery, and turned the evidence over to the state attorney's office, which ultimately opted not to pursue a case. The coach was suspended and then fired by the USTA.[7]
In March 2022 McKenzie filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Tennis Association after an investigation by SafeSport found it was "more likely than not" that she had suffered a sexual assault by a coach at a United States Tennis Association training centre.[8][9]
McKenzie began a professional tennis career in August 2021, based at the iTUSA Tennis Academy in Glendale.[10][11] In March 2023 she reached the final of an ITF T15 event in Monastir before she was defeated by Nina Radovanovic in the final.[12]