Kylie McKenzie v. United States Tennis Association Incorporated: Date Argued: January 27th, 2026; Docket Number: 24-12966

Case Summary:In the lower court, Kylie McKenzie sued the United States Tennis Association Incorporated and USTA Player Development Incorporated in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Case No. 6:22‑cv‑00615), alleging that while she was a young professional player training in the USTA’s player development program, her coach, Anibal Aranda, sexually assaulted her in 2018 and that the USTA was grossly negligent in hiring, retaining, and supervising him despite prior warnings and reports about his sexually predatory behavior, ultimately leading to a jury verdict awarding her a total of 9 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages after the court had already granted partial summary judgment finding that USTA’s own investigation confirmed sexual misconduct and that USTA owed her a duty to take reasonable steps to protect her from foreseeable abuse.In the present court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Case No. 24‑12966), McKenzie is the appellee and the USTA entities are the appellants, challenging the district court’s rulings and the resulting judgment in her favor, and the case was argued before the Eleventh Circuit on January 27, 2026, under the caption Kylie McKenzie v. United States Tennis Association Incorporated, et al