Black Tennis Pros

Once again, as Sloane Stephens took the court in Acapulco today, Tennis Channel commentators have found it necessary to throw American Sloane Stephens and Australian Nick Kyrgios into a boxed comparison. This is no less than the third occasion that I have heard male commentators on Tennis Channel utilize this 'lil idiom.

With no offense to Nick Kyrgios, if it were being done for the positive, it would be a different story. However, the moment you all make the comparison, you begin running down the issues that you have with Nick Kyrgios and his game. With all the negatives that have been assigned to Kyrgios, to now constantly attribute this same opinion to Sloane Stephens may be interpreted more broadly.

The issues and opinions that you have with Sloane and her game need to be limited to Sloane. Unless there's some new rule establishing grouping players deemed to have like "issues," cut the wack opining.

Oh, and FYI - Wack: not up to the mark : lousy, lame.

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