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
About seven different ways. he was a shot make jer he would always go for broke. he didn t really want to have ten hits in a rally and then try to win the point. here are four of the world s best internationally recognized players. practicing doubles. arthur ashe. bright young member of the united states davis cup team. star of the future. the fact my skin is brown. my hair is a certain way. people look at me. sure, he is a negro before anything else. but now it s well, it s almost like money in the bank. what do you mean? well, this world tennis now being the only one i m a drawing card whether i like it or not. by the mid-1960s arthur ashe