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There was Lori McNeil and Zina Garrison who did pretty well in the middle years and were an awesome doubles pairing. -
I would imagine the situation to be similar. I can't speak for tennis other than to say that it is almost 40 years almost since Arthur Ashe won Wimbledon and 50-odd years since Gibson won on the women's side and other than the Williams sisters, what has tennis done to promote the game amongst minorities? I don't see big tennis programs in inner cities or inner city schools but I admit I haven't followed it.Originally posted by GazX View Post
What I can say about soccer, is that I go to enough tournaments all over the place with my daughter, and it is the NORM, to play against all-white opposition...I have never seen an all-black team in the four years she has been playing travel. The closest is Miramar here in Broward (Fort Lauderdale) and that team dissolved. Even the teams that come from areas where there is a significant local African American population seem to have fewer black players than one would expect.
America is missing out on a very important and key demographic if they don't figure out how to make the sport a working class game. It is currently too expensive for inner city kids to afford, not unlike tennis.Leave a comment:
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PM, Do you think the situation with urban football/soccer development and african americans mirrors the situation of African Americans in re: to tennis?
Not sure what the take-up or participation rates of tennis is amonst African Americans since Williams sisters broke, or if it has made any significant difference to the sport and its take-up in urban areas.Leave a comment:
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Old...but interesting article about
the inner city divide in American soccer. I don't think anything has changed since this article was written in 2005.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2005/jun/17/ussport.football
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