I went to high school in a well-off community in New England and played varsity tennis. Our boys' and girls' tennis teams and the boys' golf team were the only ones with kids who were either not white or not native born Americans on them. (Our basketball and football teams were all white. So were our soccer teams.) I don't think it is unusual. Tennis is an individual sport and appeals to individuals across many cultures. (Like the US Open commercials say, "there is an 'i' in tennis.") I'm glad to see the sport is staying popular and I really rejoiced to see the Williams sisters succeed because they brought a new level of play and pizazz to the sport. We all thought we were rebels in my high school when we rejected wearing white tennis skirts in favor of shorts. (They still made us where the collared shirts, though.)

Of course, I meant "wear."