Commentary by Mark Wiedmer
mwiedmer@timesfreepress.com
Blame it on Xbox.
At least that’s Manker Patten tennis pro Ned Caswell’s half-serious answer for why the U.S. Open now has exactly one American – Venus Williams – remaining in women’s and men’s singles.
“If you ask a kid in this country if he’d rather practice tennis for six hours a day or play Xbox for six hours a day, I don’t think tennis would be chosen very often,” said Caswell, who also is Baylor School’s director of tennis.