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Arthur Ashe (born July 10, 1943, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died February 6, 1993, New York, New York) was an American tennis player, the first Black winner of a major men’s singles championship. Ashe began to play tennis at the age of seven in a neighbourhood park.
Nov 16, 2009 · On February 6, 1993, tennis champion Arthur Ashe, the only African American man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens, dies of complications from AIDS, at age 49 in New York City.
Jun 24, 2022 · When not winning major tennis championships and breaking barriers in one of the most lily-white sports at the time, Ashe was a vocal advocate for civil rights, even getting arrested in 1985 for...
Arthur Ashe was a legendary tennis player: he was the first Black man to win the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and a slate of other history-making titles. But he was also a champion for civil rights and social justice; an activist for numerous initiatives related to heart health, urban health, and HIV/AIDS; an advocate for youth access to sports; a ...
Arthur Ashe was a top ranked tennis player in the 1960s and 70s. Raised in the segregated South, he was the first African-American male tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament. He was much more than an athlete though.
Aug 27, 2018 · But its subject was far from ordinary: Arthur Ashe, the world-class tennis player, the day after he became the first black man to win a singles title at the United States Open.
Stats. Ranking. Personal. A singular figure in the game's history as the first black male to win a major singles titles - the first three in fact - Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., also set a record in1968 that is most unlikely to be equaled: He won both the U.S. Amateur and Open championships, the first time such a double was possible.
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