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July 8, 2000 - Richard Williams' outlandish dreams for his daughters, nurtured first on the courts of Compton, California, came true on this day.  His older daughter Venus joined Althea Gibson as the only African-American

The impact of Sloane Stephens first U.S. Open Finals has so many dimensions. The 24-year-olds victory cemented her as a force in the womens game. It boosted optimism for the future of womens tennis and the tradition of African-American excellence t

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Serena Williams and Misty Copeland are the faces of their respective professions in the United States.

Williams is the face of American tennis (men and women) while Co

Sloane Stephens has dipped her painted toe nail into the waters of tennis history before. The Plantation, Fla.-born teenager plastered her room with Williams Sisters posters as a child, picked up a tennis racket at age 9 and in '07 started backhand

The 2013 U.S. Open in Flushing, Queens has been a symbolic tournament for American tennis. Days after James Blake announced that the Open would be his swan song, the 33-year-old shot maker lost to Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the fourth round of the U.

The Williams sisters remain the long-standing chocolate darlings of tennis and torch bearers for future stars of the sport, but it was all set up for Sloane Stephens, another brown-skinned cuti