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Unfortunately there are some barriers to entry. Those that don’t belong to a country club don’t have anywhere to play indoors ...
He became the first and only Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title by outsmarting Jimmy Connors in the final.
The Mubadala Citi DC Open, held through July 27 in D.C., features top players like Venus Williams and spotlights top name ...
Swedish House Mafia will play a major standalone U.S. show on Sept. 11 when the group headlines New York City’s Arthur Ashe ...
Roscoe Tanner told ESPN about the advice Arthur Ashe gave him the same year Ashe went on to win -- and it didn't work.
Young tennis sensation Ben Shelton stands on the brink of history at Wimbledon, poised to match Arthur Ashe's legendary victory from 50 years ago.
My impression of this is that the project ran out of funding. It looks like half of it was completed and then we gave up,” ...
The CNN film “Citizen Ashe” focuses on an under-appreciated aspect of tennis great Arthur Ashe’s illustrious career: his role as an activist and civil rights advocate. Sociologist Harry ...
Arthur Ashe won three Grand Slam titles, the US Open (1968), Australian Open (1970) and Wimbledon (1975) By Aimee Lewis. BBC Sport. Watch again - Arthur Ashe - More Than a Champion on BBC iPlayer.
From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...
AThe one thing Arthur Ashe would never forfeit was his dignity. He did not learn he had the AIDS virus until September 1988, when he entered a New York hospital for emergency brain surgery.
How did Ashe, a child of Jim Crow and the segregated south, end up there? The project was the brainchild of the sculptor Paul di Pasquale. “I met Ashe] at a tennis clinic for kids in Richmond ...