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
that s it. [ applause ] 2-2. 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 forth between white baselines 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 in an african american context. there does still persist in the world myths about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletics. some people think we are all brawn and no brains. and i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketb
if you re confident you can do anything. i can hit the ball backwards if i m confident. and then it s time for our first u.s. open. this is my own country. my own backyard. forest hills. again i m the only black in the tournament, so i found it felt important. i ll have trouble sleeping tonight. and i ll wake up very early tomorrow morning like about 5:00 and the first thing that will race through my mind is seeing winners coming back at me at twice the speed. the first ever u.s. open final ended up being played on a monday because of rain. surprisingly it was arthur ashe against tom alker, the flying dutchman as we called him. the big server against the very fleet-footed tenacious dutchman. good afternoon.
U.s. open. this is my own country. my own backyard. forest hills. again i m the only black in the tournament so i found it felt important. i ll have trouble sleeping tonight. and i ll wake up very early tomorrow morning about 5:00 and first thing in my mind is seeing winners coming back at me at twice the speed. the first-ever u.s. open final ended up being played on a monday because of rain. surprisingly it was arthur ashe against the flying dutch marn. the big server against the flying dutchman. good afternoon. the first u.s. open. $100,000 in prize money. there was so much happening.
The brothers once considered potential suspects testify for two and a half hours before a grand jury today. their attorneys as they were paid but the payment does not fit the narrative we know publicly. she said the brothers are speaking to investigators because they determined the truth needs to come out. there was never a change of heart. there was a point where this story needed to be told and they manned up and they said, you know what, we are to correct it. so plea deal, immunity, all of that, they don t care about tha that. gloria schmidt says he must have trouble sleeping tonight and needs to come clean. police say they are in contact with jussie smollett s legal team to try to negotiate a reasonable surrender. he has got a bond hearing tomorrow at 11:30 local time, i should say 1:30 local time. shannon: we know you re on it. thank you very much working around-the-clock. clock. also tonight, breaking news on an active member of the