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2. Arthur Ashe: Much More Than Tennis Few athletes have contributed as much as did arthur ashe. arthur ashe Much More Than tennis. Imagine that we could travel back in time to the Richmond, Virginia of the early http://tennis.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700.htm

zfp=-1 About Sports Tennis Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Tennis with Jeff Cooper Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS Fun and Handy How-tos Racquet, Book, and Ball Reviews Stroke Repair Central ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Arthur Ashe: Much More Than Tennis Imagine that we could travel back in time to the Richmond, Virginia of the early 1950s and meet the young Arthur Ashe, but know nothing of who he was. We would meet a skinny kid who loved books and music and who, due to segregation , was excluded from playing at any of the local tennis clubs and camps. It would have been hard to so much as imagine that he could become a US Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon champion. Arthur Ashe needed extraordinary qualities to become a champion, and those qualities ended up giving us much more than memories of a great athlete. Arthur learned to play in the local public park. His father and a local coach, Ronald Charity, noticed his talent and arranged for him to work with Dr. Walter Johnson, who coached Althea Gibson, the first black player ever to win a Grand Slam title. Dr. Johnson gave Arthur a foundation that carried him through an outstanding high school tennis career that earned him a tennis scholarship at UCLA. He became UCLA's top player, which led to his selection in 1963 as the first ever black player to join the US Davis Cup team. In 1965, Arthur won the NCAA singles title and led UCLA to the team championship.

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Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. is born in Richmond to Arthur Sr. and Mattie C. Ashe. Ashe's mother dies of complications from surgery. After learning to play tennis in Richmond's Brookfield Park, Ashe attracts the attention of Ronald Charity, a part-time tennis coach. Charity arranges for Ashe to spend the summer at the Lynchburg home of Dr. Walter Johnson, who coached Althea Gibson. Johnson becomes Ashe's mentor. Ashe becomes the first African-American to play in the Maryland boys' championships. It is his first integrated event. Tired of traveling far from segregated Richmond to compete against whites, Ashe mulls a move. When a St. Louis tennis official offers room in his home, Ashe accepts. He enrolls at Sumner High School for his senior year. As a sophomore at UCLA, Ashe is featured for the second time in SI's Faces in the Crowd . He first appeared in the Dec. 12, 1960 issue. Ashe becomes the first African- American player named to the U.S. Davis Cup team. He plays on the team from 1963 to 1970 and again in 1975, 1976 and 1978. Ashe wins the NCAA men's singles championship, leading UCLA to the team title.

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As a tennis player, Arthur Ashe was one of the most prominent players of his time; an all-out competitor who rarely beat himself. His legacy, however, will be the positive changes he helped bring about and the causes he championed, both within tennis and in society as a whole. Though at his best he was for many the very definition of tennis, tennis never defined Arthur Ashe. As a child growing up in segregated Richmond, Virginia, Arthur’s physical stature did little to indicate his future career as a professional athlete. "Skinny as a straw," Arthur derived countless hours of pleasure reading and listening to music with his mother, Mattie. He also showed a surprising flair for tennis from the first time he picked up a racquet. At the age of six, Mattie passed away suddenly. Though heartbroken, Arthur’s memory of his beloved mother was a source of inspiration throughout his life. Upon graduation from high school, Arthur was good enough to earn a tennis scholarship to UCLA. It was at UCLA that Arthur became recognized for his tennis ability on a national level, culminating with an individual and team NCAA championship in 1965. He was growing as a person as well, graduating in 1966 with a BA in Business Administration. Ashe was selected in 1963 to represent the United States in Davis Cup play, an honor in which he took great pride. In doing so, he also became the first African-American to be selected to play for the American team. In actuality, Arthur Ashe was a trailblazer for African-American males in tennis every time he succeeded on the court, in much the same fashion as Althea Gibson had for African-American females some 10 years earlier. The relevancy of these accomplishments was not lost on Ashe. His determination to succeed "despite" being an outcast in a historically white sport was put to an even greater test in 1969.

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Click on title or photo to order books from Amazon.com DAYS OF GRACE DADDY AND ME A HARD ROAD TO GLORY: A HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETE This critically acclaimed , three (3) volume body of work, authored by Arthur Ashe, chronicles the struggles fought and progress made by African-American athletes from 1619 to the present. First published in 1988, this body of work is one of the most comprehensive ever published on African-American athletes and was later adapted into a television program. Volume I: 1619-1918 Volume II: 1919-1945 Volume III: Since 1946 I Remember Arthur Ashe : Memories of a True Tennis Pioneer and Champion of Social Causes by the People Who Knew Him by Mike Towle Arthur Ashe by Caroline Lazo by Marvin Martin Arthur Ashe : Tennis Great by Ed Weissberg by Marvin Martin by Caroline Lazo Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions by Arthur Ashe and Alexander McNab Arthur Ashe : Breaking the Color Barrier in Tennis (African-American Biographies) by David K. Wright Arthur Ashe, Tennis Legend

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11. HickokSports.com - Biography - Arthur Ashe This document is a biography of hall of fame tennis player arthur ashe. ashe,arthur R. Jr. tennis. b. July 10, 1942, Richmond, VA d. Feb. 6, 1993. http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/ashearth.shtml

Sports Biographies Alpha Index Index by Sport Index of Women Ashe, Arthur R. Jr. Tennis b. July 10, 1942, Richmond, VA d. Feb. 6, 1993 Ashe began playing tennis seriously when he was ten, under the tutelage of Dr. R. Walter Johnson, a Charlottesville physician who had helped make Althea Gibson the first black tennis champion. After his junior year in high school, he moved to St. Louis, where he could face stiffer competition. Ashe won four straight American Tennis Association championships, from 1960 through 1963, and in 1965 he was the NCAA tennis champion, representing UCLA. While serving in the Army in 1968, Ashe became the first black male to win a national title, taking both the first U. S. Open and the U. S. amateur championship. He turned professional after leaving the Army in 1969 and won the 1970 Australian Open. As the culmination of his career, he won the Wimbledon singles title in 1975, the first black male to accomplish that. Slender at 6-foot-1 and only 158 pounds, Ashe was a graceful yet powerful player who hit hard top-spin ground strokes and had an excellent first serve. He was ranked among the top ten players in the U. S. fifteen times, and eleven times he was in the top three. In 304 singles tournaments, Ashe had 52 victories and was the runner-up 42 times. A heart attack forced his retirement in 1980. "It's very hard for an athlete to leave center stage," he said. "What do you replace it with?"

12. Ashe, Arthur Robert encyclopediaEncyclopedia ashe, arthur Robert. ashe, arthur Robert,1943–93, American tennis player, b. Richmond, Va. ashe rose http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0804974.html

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13. Arthur Ashe: Much More Than Tennis arthur ashe Much More Than tennis. He also wrote, with a coauthor for each,arthur ashe on tennis, Days of Grace, and arthur ashe, Portrait in Motion. http://tennis.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm

zfp=-1 About Sports Tennis Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Tennis with Jeff Cooper Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS Fun and Handy How-tos Racquet, Book, and Ball Reviews Stroke Repair Central ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Arthur Ashe: Much More Than Tennis Continued from Page 1 Few athletes have used their public prominence as effectively for the greater good as did Arthur Ashe. In 1968, he helped create the USTA National Junior Tennis League, which has since introduced tennis to thousands of inner-city junior players. In 1970, to bring world attention against apartheid , he called for South Africa to be expelled from the International Lawn Tennis Federation, and to further make his point, he applied for, and was denied, a visa to travel there. South Africa yielded to pressure in 1973, allowing Ashe, the first black pro ever, to play in its national championship. Arthur's activism for civil rights never ceased. In 1992, he protested the expulsion of Haitian refugees and was arrested in front of the White House.

14. Arthur Ashe - African American Tennis Star arthur ashe African American tennis star. arthur ashe was born in Richmond,Virginia, on July 10, 1943. But arthur ashe was more than a tennis champion. http://www.vahistorical.org/education/ashe.htm

Learn about Virginia Outreach programs Tours Hands-on History ... Workshops Arthur Ashe - African American tennis star Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 10, 1943. He learned to play tennis at the Richmond Racket Club, a club established for area African Americans. At the time, Richmond's public facilities schools, theaters, restaurants, and even tennis courts were racially segregated. Ashe practiced hard. In 1960 and 1961, he won the Junior Indoor Singles Championship and was ranked 28th in the country, even though he was still in high school. He attended UCLA on a tennis scholarship and went on to win both the U.S. Amateur Tennis Championship and the U.S. Open. In 1968, Ashe became the first African-American member of the Davis Cup Team and helped the United States win its first championship in five years. In 1975, Ashe upset heavily favored Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon and won the World Championship Tennis (WCT) singles title over Bjorn Borg. Arthur Ashe suffered a heart attack in 1979, and his career turned in a different direction. He was named captain of the U.S. Davis Cup Team and, although inactive as a player, worked hard from the sidelines. He was named president of the Association of Tennis Professionals and co-founder of the National Junior Tennis League. After his retirement from tennis, Ashe appeared on television as a sports commentator and wrote a syndicated newspaper column. He wrote several books on tennis, including his autobiography

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Back to Main Student Connections News Summaries Daily News Quiz ... Feedback February 8, 1993 OBITUARY Arthur Ashe, Tennis Star, Is Dead at 49 By ROBIN FINN Barton Silverman/The New York Times Arthur Ashe, 1979. rthur Ashe, a tennis champion who spent his years in the sport fighting discrimination and then spent the final year of his life seeking to broaden public awareness on the subject of AIDS, died Saturday. He was 49. A New York Hospital administrator, Judith Lilavois, said Ashe died at 3:13 P.M. of pneumonia, a complication of AIDS. He was admitted to the hospital on Friday. Yesterday, Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said that Ashe's body would lie in state at the executive mansion in Richmond tomorrow from 5 to 9 P.M. Ashe's wife, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, said that her husband's funeral would be Wednesday at 1 P.M. at the Arthur Ashe Youth Center in Richmond, where he was born, and that he would be buried at Woodland Cemetery. Ashe was the only black man to win Wimbledon and the United States and Australian Opens.

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Marvelous Messenger Ashe stressed importance of striving for excellence outside sports Arthur Ashe He was a man who in many ways took the civil rights baton from Jackie Robinson and ran with it all the way home, carrying the cause until his death in 1993. By any account, Arthur Ashe was an athlete and activist, a consummate scholar and professional, who did much more than play the game of tennis at an exceptional level. Ashe took on life. He showed generations of Americans how it should be lived. He was a black athlete who excelled, but wanted the world to know that blacks should excel throughout society. "We deify black athletes," Ashe said in 1992. "Black families are eight times more likely to push youngsters into athletics than are white families. "The disparity is glaring, if you think of the black parents' involvement at a sporting event versus their participation in a PTA meeting. We need to turn that around." Ashe grew up in Richmond, Va., a skinny kid with dark-rimmed glasses and reflexes that astounded. One spring, he fought for Robinson's No. 42 when he signed up for a Little League team.

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Auto Career Computers Education ... Relationships All times in EST Baptist: 11:00 AM Spinning: 7 PM Prime Time TV: 8:00 PM Tennis chat boards sweepstakes site shops You Are Here: HOME Sports Tennis Articles Sandra Eggers is BellaOnline's Tennis Host Arthur Ashe Remembered Arthur Ashe was a skinny little kid who learned tennis on the public courts in Richmond, VA during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Little did anyone know at the time that this African-American would turn the tennis world upside down in what was a mostly white sport for the rich and famous. As he did everything in his life, Ashe took on the world with grace and dignity. Ashe graduated at the top of his high school class, earned a scholarship to UCLA where he won the NCAA individual and team titles. He was the first African-American man named to the U.S. Davis Cup team, and the first (and only) to reach world No. 1. He was president of the ATP, served as captain of the Davis Cup team, and has been inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Sadly, Ashe’s life was cut short when, in 1993 at the age of 49, he passed away from complications of AIDS. With all that Ashe accomplished in his 10-year tennis career, he is also remembered for everything he did away from tennis off the court. In 1969, Ashe saw inequities in the prize money being offered, so he and several other players formed what is now known as the Association of Tennis Professionals. Later that year, he was denied a visa to play a tournament in South Africa because of his skin color, and he took a stand against apartheid. Prominent individuals and organizations, both in and out of tennis, stood behind him as he single handedly raised the world’s awareness of the oppressive form of government in South Africa.

19. Arthur Ashe Discussion of the impact that black athletes, such as arthur ashe, had on their sport and our society.Category Sports tennis Players Male ashe, arthur...... From 1956 to 1961 arthur ashe won several amateur tennis events, puttinghim in the spotlight of a field dominated by white males. http://www.geocities.com/dblimbrick/ashe.html

Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. was born on July 10, 1943 to Mattie Cunningham and Arthur Ashe Sr. in Richmond Virginia. Racism and injustice were not uncommon in this state. Arthur's mother died when he was six. He began playing tennis at the age of seven. In 1953, Ashe began training with Dr. Robert Walter Johnson, a man who taught many young blacks to play tennis including Althea Gibson (the first black to win a major tennis championship). From 1956 to 1961 Arthur Ashe won several amateur tennis events, putting him in the spotlight of a field dominated by white males. During his senior year in high school, Arthur was asked to polish his tennis skills with the highly respected coach Richard Hudlin of St. Louis, Missouri. Ashe accepted, moved to St. Louis, and finished his education at Sumner High School. In 1961, Ashe graduated from high school with the highest grades in his class and earned an athletic scholarship to UCLA. In 1963, Arthur competed in Wimbledon for the first time. After winning several more titles in his collegiate career, Ashe graduated in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. After joining the army and becoming second lieutenant, Ashe took the U.S. Men's Clay Court title in 1967 and the U.S. Men's Single's Title in 1968. Later that year, he won the U.S. Open title, becoming the top ranked player in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA). Much like the other great black athletes, Ashe defeated the notion of white superiority in sports on earning the title of "tennis champion".

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