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Who's top player on women's tour in 2007?

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Monday, August 27, 2007

NEW YORK -- Forty-three years after Althea Gibson became the first African-American to win the U.S. Open, Venus Williams followed in her formidable footsteps in 2000. On Monday night, with the United States Tennis Association celebrating Gibson's legacy, Williams found herself engulfed in history. As she walked under Arthur Ashe Stadium on the way to her first-round match, she passed by some of the extraordinary African-American women on hand for the tribute, including astronaut Dr. Mae J ...

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