that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes that the
Pro, he didn t think women should even be included. we re slow, no one wants to watch us. but he really did change over time, being sensitive to gender because of genie. genie ashe changed his whole life. i first met arthur in 1976. and when i was shooting at a new york tennis tournament, there were more women standing around arthur ashe than there were around walt clyde frazier. au arthur called me at my office at nbc and invited me out to dinner. i met him downstairs and he had one single red rose. he told me it was his mother s favorite flower. obviously, i was completely charmed by that. i was emotionally ready.