No other tennis player spanned as many historic moments and ... places and eras that greatly shaped his journey. Add to the mix Ashe’s superb tennis legacy—winner of the first US Open in ...

We spoke about a player who shall remain nameless ... So many sports fans were overjoyed by Ashe taking the premier title in tennis, and they would convey that to him wherever he went.

The current wildfires have me remembering seven winters past when satanic Santa Ana winds blew the Thomas Fire closer and ...

However, all these stars owe a great deal to Arthur Ashe, who was the last black American tennis player to win a grand slam. Arthur Ashe began playing tennis when he was just 16 years old.

Number one ranked tennis player in the world, Jannick Sinner, is in the semifinal of the Australian Open and will play Blake ...

6, and had never beaten Connors before. In the match, Arthur Ashe played near-flawless tennis. He won in four sets. That same year, Ashe was awarded the inaugural ATP Player of the Year Award. He ...

2015 marks the 40th anniversary of tennis legend Arthur Ashe lifting the Wimbledon men’s singles title. From boyhood in segregated America, Ashe became one of the world’s opinion-formers.

Midway through his illustrious career as a tennis player, Arthur Ashe, the first black player to win the US Open and Wimbledon, contemplated his various roles as athlete, activist and spokesman for ...