at my upper middle class Midwest (USA) tennis club in a very white metro, nearly all of the youth tennis players are of East Asian or Indian heritage. Any theories as to why?
I live in a very white (90%+) metro, although my upper middle class section of the metro has a relatively high share of families of Asian descent.
At the tennis club that I belong to, nearly all of the kids and teens in the tennis programs are of East Asian or Indian descent, and it seems like most of them are the children of immigrant parents.
People of Asian descent represent only 6% of the Asian population, yet they're far more than that in the USA ATP Rankings of the Top 150 players in the world: Nakashima, Nishesh Bashavareddy, Mackenzie McDonald, Learner Tien. FWIW, this trend is far less evident in the women's side for WTA rankings of American players.
Anyone have any theories as to why those of Asian descent in America tend to so highly gravitate towards tennis?
**Conversely, my question could be written entirely differently: why do relatively so few white parents in my area have their kids focus on tennis?