Jimmy Connors was nine years Ashe’s junior when they met July 5, 1975, a lefty slugger coming to defend his Wimbledon title on the heels of the best year of his career. Connors lost all of four ...

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

Relics from Coco’s performance at the 2024 Dubai Tennis Championship are included in Regalia Relics and Relic Jewels, and racket grips numbered to five from the 2023 WTA Finals.

NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - The site of the U.S. Open will undergo an $800 million transformation, the USTA said on Monday, with a "top-to-bottom" modernisation of the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium ...

Reid first played tennis at Washington Park’s public tennis center in 1964 at nine years old. Just a few years later, at 12, he was the first Black player to win a Georgia State Junior Open title.

Evert got married three times, starting with her wedding to former British No. 1 John Lloyd in 1979, which ended in 1987. She then married American skier Andy Mill, with whom she had three sons ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Arthur Ashe was only 49 years old when he passed away in 1993, but the tennis superstar accomplished so much in his life—from becoming the face of tennis to the face of activism.

She taught not only tennis, but life and leadership skills. Junior Alliance Tennis Association founder Emily Moore at tennis camp in Rev. Arthur Mackey Sr. Park in Roosevelt Aug. 2014.

Its provenance dates to 1971 when Ashe was ranked No. 2 in the world and I was an 11-year-old tennis player with big dreams and a few small trophies in my bedroom bookcase in Columbus, Ohio.

Is Tennis Really the ‘World’s Healthiest Sport’? We Fact-Checked the Claim 8 minute read Jack Draper plays Alex de Minaur on day ten of the U.S. Open on Sept. 4, 2024.

After winning her way into the semifinals of the U.S. Open, Charleston's Emma Navarro gave a shoutout to her coach, Peter Ayers. "My coach and I, we've been together since I was 14 or 15, I think ...