Given that the Davis Cup recognizes only countries, not people,
and since there are no countries named "black" (or, at least, none currently assigned to play the Davis Cup),
the answer is: there have been no black winners of the Davis Cup.
Arthur Ashe
Arhur Ashe
Althea Gibson was the first African American international tennis player. She was the first person of color to win a Grand Slam tournament when she won the French Open in 1956.
Althea Gibson was the first black tennis player to win a Grand Slam title (1956). Arthur Ashe was the first MALE black tennis player to win a Grand Slam title (1968).
Ernie Davis
American Athea Gibson was the first black professional tennis player. She won her first Grand Slam tennis title in 1956.
In professional tennis, the first black male to win a Grand Slam event in singles was Arthur Ashe in 1968 at the U.S. Open.
No he was not the first black men to play tennis. Though he was the first black man to win the Us open tennis. But I will try to find the first black man to play tennis.
Arthur Ash is a tennis player, and the first black man to win Wimbledon.
A tennis player.
My idol, Serena Williams was the first black woman to win a major tennis championship.
Return first, unless you are a professional men's tennis player
He went to skool somewhere
The first tennis ball player was Freda Hendrik's from Massachusetts.