Arthur Ashe. There's a stadium named after him in Flushing, NY.
Yes one biracial African-american tennis player is James Blake who is half white half black. A plain African-American tennis male is Donald Young.
Yes!
Arthur Ashe was the first African American tennis player who won 3 grand slam titles.
No. His girlfriend is African-American
Althea Gibson was the first African American ever to play in the U.S. Open. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam event, the clay surface French Open. She became the first African American to win a women's title at the U.S. Open in 1957 and repeated her victory in 1958. Althea Gibson also was the first African American to win the All-England Lawn Tennis Women's Singles Championship at Wimbledon in 1957 and repeated in 1958. After retiring from tennis, she became the first African-American woman to earn her card in the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), in 1964.
The first African-American girl to play soccer is Briana Scurry.
Althea Gibson
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Dave Rineberg has written: 'Recipe for the tennis player's soul' -- subject(s): Tennis 'Play scratch golf' -- subject(s): Golf, Amateurs' manuals 'Venus & Serena' -- subject(s): Biography, Tennis coaches, Tennis players, African American women tennis players
There was no African American champion at the 1956 French Open.
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