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tennis gold medal matches and olympic preview
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Following Garrison and McNeil’s careers, Olympic team member Chanda Rubin
became the pre-eminent African-American tennis player, reaching the top 10
in the world’s rankings and reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open
in 1996.
Venus and Serena Williams continued the Gibson legacy by becoming the 1st
black women to win Grand Slam tournaments titles – Serena breaking through
to take out the 1999 US Open, becoming the 1st black player to win a Grand Slam
and the United States Championships since Gibson in 1958 and Venus also breaking through to
become the 1st black women to win Wimbledon in 2000.
Andy Roddick is so excited about playing for a gold
medal at the 2004 Olympic Games that he’s going to go for it twice. Roddick will
be competing in both doubles and the singles at the Games – leaving himself open
for potentially playing eleven matches in eight days under the hot Greek sun.
From the moment Patrick McEnroe was named coach for the U.S. men’s team, Roddick had lobbied hard to
get the 2nd men’s doubles position made
up of singles players. McEnroe obliged and gave Roddick and his good friend Mardy Fish the nod as the No. 2 doubles team behind Bob and Mike Bryan.
Roddick’s No. two singles ranking makes him a medal favorite in singles, but
his doubles ranking of No. 230 make him and
Fish underdogs for medals in men’s doubles. Roddick has enjoyed success on
the doubles court, winning 2 titles, including the United States Men’s Clay Court
Championships in Houston with Fish in 2002.
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Fish and Roddick, classmates at Boca Prep
High School in Florida, who used to live together in high school at the
Roddick family home in Boca Raton, hold a six to three career record as
doubles partners in ATP level events.
The last American men to play doubles and singles at the Olympics were Andre Agassi and
Mal Washington at the 1996 Games. Agassi won the gold in men’s
singles that year. Washington reached the quarterfinals of men’s singles
and, as a team, Agassi and Washington lost in the 2nd round of men’s
doubles. In women’s competition, Venus Williams won gold in both women’s
singles and doubles at the 2000 Olympics.
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