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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Crew is a tall persons sport (unless you’re a coxswain), which if anything tends to cut against Asians.[/quote]

I hope you're smarter than what you posted here.  Tennis is a tall sports as well (e.g. serve) but it does not mean anything.  Roger Federer is 6"1' and John Isner is 6"9' and both are professional tennis players.  Federer has 20 Grand slams title and Isner has NONE.
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Are we talking about crew or tennis?

Most successful professional male tennis players today are at least 6 feet tall (Federer, Nadal, Djovokic, Murray, Wawrinka).  Chung Hyeon, the up-and-coming Korean player, is 6'1.  Smaller players like David Ferrer and Kei Niskikora have not been able to break through and win majors.

But we're talking about high school tennis here, not the pro circuit.  At this level, shorter tennis players often excel.  The hypothetical Asian kid at TJ who supposedly would get smashed like a bug on a football field very well could end a top five player regionally.    [/quote]

Because tennis requires much more than brute strength.  It requires strength, skill and most importantly INTELLIGENCE which lot Asians and Indians kids have, what a surprise.

Lleyton Hewitt is 5"11 and he beat Sampras, who is 6"1, to win the 2001 US open.  Until Federer, Sampras was the most grand slam winner.  Hewitt proved that your assumption about at least 6 feet tall is severely flawed.[/quote]

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