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By Matias Grez, CNN (CNN) — Arthur Ashe hits a slice serve with unerring accuracy, the ball arcing ever wider off the court. Jimmy Connors, his heavily favored opponent and the defending ...

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 ...

In 1975, Arthur Ashe staged the one of the greatest upsets in tennis history over Jimmy Connors to become the only Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.

Arthur Ashe's historic 1975 Wimbledon victory over Jimmy Connors remains the only Grand Slam singles title by a Black male player 50 years later.