It won’t be more fabricated if we said African American players have kept Tennis alive in the US.

IT was major reason why we needed to watch this year US open many comeback stories new players with golden opportunities .Since tennis is also one of the major games of US anxiety over the future of the game in America was never in shortage. However abrupt retirement of Andy Roddick’s retirement in 2012 from US open was much of shock as it left the country without men’s grand slam champion for the first time.

The ageless Venus is still the oldest player in the top 300 says a report of ranking released, where she will be top 5 for the first time in nearly seven years. Even serene who at present on maternity leave and inactive since January get on 22 ranking though lying in wait as betting the favourite to defend her title at the Australian Open. Still, 14 women from the US in top 100 is more suggesting the women tennis in the US is as strong and healthy as ever. It not of a secret how the William sisters fought their way on gender , to criticism from all corners, weathering the double burden of racism to sexism from the moment they burst onto the scene as a teenager in late 1990’s.

As it properly said, Stephen Sloane, legacy is planting a seed in a garden you never get to see but it’s taken by next generation to behold the black girl magic sown by the pair of sisters. The fruits were seen on this year open display on Sunday as Cori “CoCo’ Gauff 13-year-old from Florida became the youngest girl to playing US Open Girls final since the event began in 1974 her favourite player being Serena. The twelve years old today won’t remember Venus got into the game as a debutante or Arthur Ashe Stadium which also open that same year but they would recognise Stephens and Keys trading ground strokes on the game stage.

Stephens who is black defeated Keys, as for the first time demographics women reflects America as it truly is. Stephen with mother white while father black, is not a significant thing where sport owned played and watched by affluent white people. So was time stand still when on Saturday Sloane Stephens stood frozen when Keys sent a forehand into the net on match point in the final and Stephen’s triumphs was the climax of women’s tournament. IT also marked four American made it to the semi-final for the first time in a grand slam in 32 years. Though wining of Stephen truly put up Picture that American tennis is in a suddenly vibrant state that all because of black women. This so little was said of the race in aftermath of Stephens win can be a sign of progress. As24-year-old champion offered little more than responses to question. But the line by Stephen said on eve of the final “Obviously Venus, we are following in her footsteps. She is been here she represented the game so well as an African American women”.

So still America has a lot of Tennis in store with such positive African American representing the game.