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.