Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, both Americans, were the two best players of their era.
But they're not white...per se.
Sampras is of Greek origin.
Agassi has Middle Eastern ancestry (father is Irani).
Nowadays we wouldn't hear the end of their "representation".
Was it even mentioned back then?
Not really.
shareNever an issue. AA was a sex symbol, I don't think anyone considered him other than white, and you know, Greeks are white too. Same w/ Eyeties. Many Arabs are as white as Europeans, especially in the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan).
shareSpeaking from an European perspective, at the time they were very much presented as being "American".
shareNo one used to give a fuck about identity. It's the racist woke zealots who won't shut the fuck up about it. When the Wokerati infected our culture with their faggotry, the culture became obsessed with the color of your skin, your gender, and whether you're a queer. This has ruined our culture, and is causing a backlash, resentment, and strife. I know, because I'm one of the people who resents it. I'm so tired of hearing about fаggоtѕ, dуkеѕ, quееrѕ, trаnnіеѕ and colored people. It's the reason I'm using such inflammatory language. It's my way of rebelling and rejecting Wokies and their repulsive ideology.
shareHope you feel like you’re making inroads on your rebellion and rejection there, faggot.
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I am.
My goal is to purge the Wokerati from every group, institution, and organization. I wish to push them out to the fringes of society where they belong. Back to some dark corner of the racial/gender studies department of academia never to be seen or heard from again.
I am having success in this endeavour. I have been successful in changing hearts and minds, both online and IRL. I have personally pushed out Wokies from my friend groups, and organizations I am part of. I use my skills of persuasion to turn people against the woke. And I can be very persuasive; I can sell dick brownies to a dуkе on a diet.
Like the others have said here, the answer is "no." They were judged pretty much solely by their play and actions on the court (Sampras received criticism from a few people because he was thought to be "boring," while Agassi was the opposite...he was criticized for being too flamboyant).
I will say that Michael Chang was part of that era and there was some discussion about his heritage/background. However, it wasn't covered back then like it would have been today. He was also pretty much judged by what he did on the court.
He was considered the most heady player of his day, basically fighting above his weight in terms of talent. That was my impression.
sharethese things didn't exist in the 90s, but certain people learnt that if you want to control people then giving them a victim complex works well.
shareNever heard any discussion of their ethnicity in the mainstream, but I didn't pay much attention to sports in those days.
But if I'd been part of a Greek-American or Iranian-American community, I bet it would have been a different story, there would have been no end of talk of what the star player was doing for a minority community! But since the mainstream media took no interest in what people in ethnic or small minority communities were saying back then, we never heard about it.