Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to ...

He became the first and only Black man to win a Wimbledon singles title by outsmarting Jimmy Connors in the final.

Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to win the Wimbledon gentlemen’s singles title, and the ...

Born in July 1943 in Richmond, Virginia, Ashe was introduced to the sport when his father, Arthur Sr., became a caretaker for Brook Field Park in 1947, a segregated playground equipped with tennis ...

My dad was a janitor at a tennis facility in Maryland, and I was lucky to be around the sport from a young age, even if I did not have the money or opportunities a lot of other kids did.