The long Black domination of U.S. women's tennis is finally over. We'll see what Swiatek can do but we're certainly in an era when no female player can establish short-term dominance much less long-term dominance.
And that's true of the Black female American players. The current top-ranked Americans are #9 Danielle Collins and #11 Jessica Pegula, both White. Madison Keys and Coco Gauff -- both hyped as "Great Black Hopes" -- are now ranked 22nd and 23rd respectively. Following them are three more White girls -- Amanda Anisimova (#28), Alison Riske (#43), and Shelby Rogers (#50). Sloane Stephens has fallen all the way to #64, while The Hulking Linebacker currently sits at #276, and Venus is considerably below that.
Tennis is following the pattern of golf, where Tiger Woods was heralded as the harbinger of a Black takeover of the sport (lolol), and the Williams sisters were going to do the same in tennis. Instead, Blacks remain woefully under-represented in both sports, especially golf, and it's hard to fall back on the all-purpose cries of "racism" when both are individual sports. Woods and the Williams sisters were outliers, albeit very notable, very long-lasting ones, that the fake news media are still desperately clinging to for as long as they can.