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Before Ashe. Before Serena. The champion tennis forgot - Althea Gibson - How It All Played Out

Before Ashe. Before Serena. The champion tennis forgot - Althea Gibson - How It All Played Out

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Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward
bring you the story of Althea Gibson - don't
worry if you've never heard of her, few have!

Arthur Ashe is a name immediately recognisable
to every tennis fan - and most sports fans.

He was the first Black man to win the US Open, the Australian
Open and Wimbledon - and the largest tennis stadium in the world,
the US Open main court, is named after him.

But he wasn’t the first Black player to win a Grand Slam. That
honour went to New Yorker Althea Gibson, who won
the French open in 1956 - a whole decade before Ashe. She also
won both the US Open and Wimbledon in 1957 and in 1958.

So why isn’t Althea Gibson as well known as Arthur Ashe? Why
doesn’t she have her name up in lights like his? What is her
story?

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