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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.
Roscoe Tanner told ESPN about the advice Arthur Ashe gave him the same year Ashe went on to win -- and it didn't work.
The Mubadala Citi DC Open, held through July 27 in D.C., features top players like Venus Williams and spotlights top name ...
World No. 11 Frances Tiafoe is in Washington, DC, for the Mubadala Citi DC Open. Before starting his singles campaign The post Frances Tiafoe Makes Astonishing Bid to Win All Four Grand Slam Titles ...
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,” ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...