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Serena Williams - Wins First Singles Title - Venus, Sister, Doubles ...  Later in 1999 the Williams sisters teamed up to win the doubles title at the French Open. ... 1999 when she became the lowest seed to win the women's title since 1968. ... singles title, Williams became only the second African-American woman to do so. ... In July 2000, Venus defeated Serena in the semi-finals at Wimbledon.
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Althea Gibson - Wikipedia  Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927  September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title (the ... In 1949 she became the first black woman, and the second black athlete...
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Inspiring Accomplishments - USTA.com  ... the first African-American woman to win a major singles title when she claimed the ... The first African American woman to reach a Grand Slam final since legend Althea ... Williams would go on to win the 2000 and 2001 US Open titles. ... She also became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the...
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List of career achievements by Serena Williams - Wikipedia  This page lists various career, tournament, and seasonal achievements by tennis player ... By winning the 2003 Australian Open, became the first African-American to win ... Upon winning the 2016 Wimbledon singles title, she became the only player, ... She is only the fourth woman in the Open Era to win a tournament six or...
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world No. 1 in singles on six separate occasions. She became the world No. ... She is also the only tennis player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate...
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ESPN.com: Billie Jean won for all women  Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. ... Yet of all her matches, the one that is remembered most is her victory against a ... She was instrumental in making it acceptable for American women to exert .... She gave clinics, became director of World Team Tennis, and played on a...
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Serena Williams - Wikipedia  Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American professional tennis player. ... Williams holds the most major singles, doubles, and mixed doubles titles ... She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus, and the .... At the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, she hit a women's tournament...
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On this day in 1975, Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win ...  July 5, 1975, marks the day 31-year-old Arthur Ashe shocked the world. He defeated 22-year-old Jimmy Connors to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon. In 196 ... In 1968, Ashe became the first black man to win the U.S. Open. Two years later, he won ... Ashe retired from tennis in 1980 after suffering a heart attack. He...
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Wimbledon: How Arthur Ashe became only black man to win title ...  Jun 25, 2015 ... Arthur Ashe won three Grand Slam titles, the US Open (1968), Australian ... The first black tennis player to win a men's Grand Slam singles title was popular and ... By the summer of 1975, the 31-year-old Ashe had never beaten Connors. ... "Connors wore an air of such arrogance he regularly intimidated his...
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History - 1990s - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official ...  The Swede went on to win the US Open in 1991 and 1992. ... since Bjorn Borg, and the first American to win Wimbledon since John McEnroe in 1984. ... John McEnroe collected his fifth Wimbledon men's doubles title as he and Michael ... By doing so, Martinez became the first  and to date only  Spanish woman to lift the...
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Virginia Wade: a Wimbledon champion written out of British history ...  Jul 8, 2013 ... Virginia Wade with her trophy after winning the Wimbledon women's ... Until last Sunday, the last British tennis player to win Wimbledon. Huh? When? 36 years ago. Back in 1977. ... Because journalists have forgotten she exists. ... Dorothy Round Little won the women's singles  for the second time in her...
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2-trophy day for Serena Williams: She and Venus win doubles  Jul 9, 2016 ... LONDON (AP)  Serena Williams is leaving Wimbledon with two trophies, teaming with her older sister Venus to win a women's doubles final that. ... It was the first all-French Grand Slam men's doubles final of the Open era. ... had success together as teens, collecting seven junior doubles titles in 1999.
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Serena Williams vs. Venus Williams - Difference and Comparison ...  Grand Slam Singles Titles, Won 21: Australian Open (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 ... Won 7: US Open (2000, 2001); Wimbledon (2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008). ... She takes immediate control of rallies using a powerful serve and return and forceful ... Her arguments were endorsed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and...
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1972 Wimbledon Championships  Women's Singles - Wikipedia  1971  Wimbledon Championships  1973 . Billie Jean King defeated Evonne Goolagong 63, 63 in the final to win the Ladies' Singles...
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Before Simone Biles, These Women Broke Barriers - The New York ...  Aug 10, 2016 ... She won't even be the first black woman to win the all-around gold at ... down the fact that I was the only African American with a gold medal, ... Kim Zmeskal, world champion in 1991, followed by Shannon Miller ... An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated when Nastia Liukin won the all-around title.
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golf | AthleticPoetics  Althea Gibson won Wimbledon, defeating Darlene Hard, 6-3, 6-2. In 1975 ... She began playing tennis as a teenager and went on to win the national black women's championship twice. At a time when ... In 1960, she toured with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, playing exhibition tennis matches before their games.
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Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon - Jul 06 ...  Althea Gibson is first African American to win Wimbledon ... (In 1975, Arthur Ashe became the first African-American man to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, when he defeated Jimmy ... In September 1957, she won the U.S. Open, and the Associated Press named her Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and 1958.
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Venus Williams - Wikipedia  From the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2001 US Open, Williams won four of the six Grand Slam singles tournaments held. She is one of only six...
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Althea Gibson - Wikipedia  Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927  September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and the first black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first person of color to win a Grand Slam title (the .... Later in the season she won the Wimbledon doubles championship (again...
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Althea Gibson - Golfer, Tennis Player, Athlete - Biography.com  Feb 4, 2016 ... Althea Gibson was the first African-American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951. She also broke racial barriers in professional golf. ... Incredibly, just a year after picking up a racket for the first time, she won a local...
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Inspiring Accomplishments | USTA  The first African American woman to reach a Grand Slam final since legend ... the first black woman to claim a Grand Slam singles title since Althea Gibson in 1958. ... The next day, Serena and her sister Venus won the US Open doubles title. ... She also became only the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and...