In a hyper-busy sports week featuring NFL Opening Weekend, the second week of NCAA College Football, and the MLB pennant chase, it's tennis we turn to this week. If you were talking about American tennis in the past two decades, it was almost exclusively the Williams sisters or maybe Andy Roddick. Well the United States Open showed that Americans may be back. Sloane Stephens defeated Venus Williams on the way to winning the Open as an unseeded surprise. The 24 year-old dropped three sets along the way, but defeated five out of seven matches against ranked opponents, ending with a defeat of 11 seed fellow American Madison Keys dropping just 3 games in the first set. Is this Stephens break through to elite? Or just a solid week. Time will tell, but Sloane Stephens is the Longhorndave Sportswoman of the Week!
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