Arthur Ashe

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Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. Tennis player
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr.
Arthur Ashe at the ABN World Tennis Tournament 1975 in Rotterdam
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Birthday: July 10, 1943
Date of death: February 6, 1993
Size: 185 cm
Weight: 73 kg
1st professional season: 1969
Resignation: 1980
Playing hand: Right, one-handed backhand
Trainer: Dr. Johnson
Prize money: $ 1,584,909
singles
Career record: 683: 225
Career title: 33
Highest ranking: 2
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  3
Australian Open S (1970)
French Open 1R (1970, 1971)
Wimbledon S (1975)
US Open S (1968)
Double
Career record: 315: 173
Career title: 14th
Highest ranking: 15th
Grand Slam record
Grand Slam title: 00000  2
Australian Open S (1977)
French Open S (1971)
Wimbledon F (1971)
US Open F (1968)
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (born July 10, 1943 in Richmond , † February 6, 1993 in New York City ) was an American tennis player .

Life

Ashe was the first black tennis player to be nominated for the USA Davis Cup team. In 1968 he won the US Open and also the Davis Cup with the American team. In 1970 came the next victory in a Grand Slam tournament : Ashe won the Australian Open . In 1975 he achieved the greatest success of his career when he surprisingly defeated Jimmy Connors in the final at Wimbledon . In 1978 he lost the Masters final to John McEnroe . In 1980 he resigned as a tennis player. In later years he worked as a co-commentator for ABC Sports and for a few years as captain of the American Davis Cup team. In 1985 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

In 1988 he fell ill with AIDS because he received an HIV -contaminated blood bag during a heart operation . Arthur Ashe died of the disease five years later. After his death, the main stadium at Flushing Meadows was named after him, and a statue was erected on Monument Avenue in his birthplace . For his support of humanitarian operations Ashe 1992 by the magazine Sports Illustrated for Athlete of the Year chosen. On June 20, 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom .

literature

  • Eric Allen Hall: Arthur Ashe. Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 2014, ISBN 978-1-4214-1394-5
  • Raymond Arsenault: Arthur Ashe. A life . Simon & Schuster, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-4391-8904-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ashe, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashe, Arthur Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1993
Place of death new York