A generation of young black tennis players can play unburdened partly due to the path beaten by the Williams sisters Twenty-two years ago in Indian Wells, a 16-year-old Venus Williams, still ranked only 211th in the world, was reeling from a brutal loss to Lindsay Davenport when she was asked about the impact she had already left on young black women in tennis. "I think that I've had a good effect," she said. "Generally, you don't see too many black people playing tennis, not on the tour, not an...
The first person Cori Gauff thanked for her win over Venus Williams was Venus Williams
The Guardian - 2 Jul 2019 22:00
A generation of young black tennis players can play unburdened partly due to the path beaten by the Williams sisters Twenty-two years ago in Indian Wells, a 16-year-old Venus Williams, still ranked only 211th in the world, was reeling from a brutal loss to Lindsay Davenport when she was asked about the impact she had already left on young black women in tennis. "I think that I've had a good effect," she said. "Generally, you don't see too many black people playing tennis, not on the tour, not an...
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