When Brienne Minor walked across the blue and green court on a tour of Arthur Ashe Stadium, she gasped.
“Breathtaking,” she said.
But it was not overwhelming. Minor, who will play her first United States Open match on Tuesday, is having too much fun to be rattled by the big stage.
“It’s not really about the tennis for me,” said Minor, who became the first African-American woman to win the N.C.A.A. Division I singles title this spring.
Minor, a junior at Michigan, faces another trailblazer, Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, who at the French Open this year became the first Arab woman to reach the third round of a Grand Slam singles event.