Thursday, March 09, 2006

Black Tennis Report for February

Thanks to reader Bernie Tarver, who sent me this link to the USTA's Celebration of Black History Month, the Black Tennis Report for February (yeah, I know, a tad late) has some interesting stats.

There are now a record 7 African Americans in the list of Top 20 USA Women Tennis players: Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Mashona Washington, Jamea Jackson, Shenay Perry, Asha Rolle and Angela Haynes. (Former World Top 10 Chanda Rubin is injured and has not played a WTA tour match for over a year.)

Neither Venus Williams nor Serena Williams played a single tennis match in February 2006! If Serena doesn't do well at Miami's NASDAQ-100 Open which she won last year, her ranking will fall out of the Top 50.

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