At Wimbledon 2000, Venus Williams expressed appreciation for this 1957 & '58 champion
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J! Archive - Show #4085, aired 2002-05-10  In 2001 Brian Cappelletto won this game's World Championship with words ... At Wimbledon 2000, Venus Williams expressed appreciation for this 1957 & '58...
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Althea Gibson must be smiling over Venus, Serena - ESPN.com  Jul 9, 2008 ... As Venus and Serena Williams reached the 2008 Wimbledon final, many noted the ... and the U.S. Championships (now the U.S. Open) in 1957 and 1958. ... named The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 and '58. ... when Venus Williams won the first of her five singles titles there in 2000.
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Black ThenJuly 8, 2000: Venus Williams Beats Lindsay Davenport at ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... July 8, 2000: 20-year-old Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport in the Wimbledon final to ... slam singles title, making her the 1st black woman Wimbledon champion since Althea Gibson won back-to-back titles in 1957-58.
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Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 2000-07-11 - The Daily Iowan  Jul 11, 2000 ... Throughout, they expressed fear that he ... The 2000 graduating class had seven lieutenants go on ...... appreciation for "The. ~ ...... 58 InsIde Info ..... Wimbledon women's singles champion Venus Williams on fans reaction to ...... Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in. 195758. Venus was playing in only her.
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The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky  Page 31  Jul 9, 2000 ... THE COURIER-JOURNAL SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2000 Wimbledon Sampras ... For one so young, the 28-year-old Sampras has an uncommon appreciation of tennis ... lost to Venus and Serena Williams in the women's doubles semifinals. .... i$1 SAE with exchange land Club by winning titles in 1957 and '58.
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Before Superstardom, Williams Sisters Stunned On Compton's Courts  Sep 5, 2015 ... It's a source of pride in the city. ... Sisters Serena, left, and Venus Williams shake hands after a match in 1991 in ... "To be able to say that they're from the town that you grew up in ... Their dad, Richard Williams, was their coach back then. ... Rancho Dominguez Park, formerly known as East Compton Park.
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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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Althea Gibson wins the women's singles title at Wimbledon | Art and ...  Jul 6, 2013 ... ... development programme for African American youths and who later mentored another Wimbledon champion, Arthur Ashe. In 1960, after retiring, Gibson toured with the Harlem Globetrotters playing exhibition matches before their games. ... Tennis ace Althea Gibson blows kisses to cheering crowd at 1.
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AT WIMBLEDON WITH - Ion Tiriac - Tennis's Grandest Bad Boy ...  Jun 24, 1993 ... The photographer asks Ion Tiriac to smile. ... Mr. Tiriac is known in the tennis world, wants to be cooperative, so he glowers a bit more gently. ... he first won, at 17, he was the youngest champion in Wimbledon history -- and .... lobbied German officials to help the struggling Romanians with aid and trade.
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4 British Women Who Won Wimbledon Before Andy Murray  Jul 8, 2013 ... ... Margaret Mortimer Barrett beat her fellow Englishwoman Christine ... By the time she won her first Wimbledon singles championship in ... to win the Australian Open in 1972, but it wasn't until 1977, nearly a decade after that first victory, that Wade would become Wimbledon's last British singles winner for...
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Althea Gibson: Queen of Tennis | - The Weekly Challenger  Oct 20, 2016 ... Althea Gibson was an African American tennis player who was the first ... In 1957, she also won both Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals ... She spent the first three years of her life on a cotton farm, where her .... In 1964, she then turned to professional golf, joining the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
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1985 Wimbledon Championships  Men's Singles - Wikipedia  Boris Becker won the final 63, 67, 76, 64 against Curren becoming the first unseeded player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title as well as the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at 17 years, 227 days. This record would eventually be broken by Michael Chang at the 1989 French Open.
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Between 1966 & 1975, this woman won the Wimbledon singles 6 ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... Between 1966 & 1975, this woman won the Wimbledon singles 6 times & beat Bobby # Quiz # Question ... No views. FirstAmVideo ... Frank Sinatra ad-libbed Scooby Dooby Doo in this 1966 No. 1 hit # Quiz # Question. 0:29.
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Wimbledon Top 10: Youngest Champions - The Championships ...  Jun 28, 2013 ... Wimbledon.com looks at the top 10 youngest champions. ... Boris Becker was 17 years old when he won the 1985 Championships, becoming the youngest ever winner of the gentlemen's singles title. ... Grand Slam victory had come the season before when, at the age of 12, she won the junior French Open...
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About Arthur Ashe - Student Health & Wellness  In 1950 Arthur met Ronald Charity, one of the best black tennis players in the nation ... tennis under Johnson's instruction and in 1958 became the first African-American to ... During his time in the army he continued to play tennis, participating in the ... Okker of the Netherlands on September 9, 1968 to win the first U.S. Open.
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Queens of the Court: Althea Gibson, A Sports Pioneer | Sports Then ...  Nov 2, 2009 ... Born in 1927, the year after the historic Match of the Century ... tennis, but also to compete after leaving tennis as a professional golfer. ... Althea Gibson defeated Darlene Hard in 1957 to win the first of her two consecutive Wimbledon titles. ... She defeated Mortimer 8-6, 6-2 in the 1958 Wimbledon final and...
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Also straight outta Compton: Venus, Serena Williams - CNN.com  Sep 8, 2015 ... Compton residents and merchants remember how sisters Venus ... Also straight outta Compton: Tennis champs Venus, Serena ... "They would pass by, one a little taller than the other and they wore ..... The Compton that the Williams sisters grew up in is changing, from ... New York City, NY Partly Cloudy...
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Venus Williams - Wikipedia  Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is generally regarded as one of the all-time greats of women's tennis and who, along with younger sister Serena ... Her five Wimbledon singles titles ties her with two other women for eighth place on the all-time list. Williams is...
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Pancho Gonzales - Wikipedia  Ricardo Alonso Gonzlez (May 9, 1928  July 3, 1995), also known as Richard Gonzales, and .... American Lawn Tennis wrote that "the crowd cheered a handsome, .... In all, Gonzales beat Segura five matches out of six and Kramer three times in .... As a 41-year-old at Wimbledon, Gonzales met Charlie Pasarell, a Puerto...
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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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Williams sisters - Wikipedia  The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players: Venus Williams (b. 1980), a seven-time Grand Slam title winner (singles), and Serena Williams ... By winning the 2001 Australian Open women's doubles title, they became the 5th ... In 2002, after the French Open, Venus Williams and Serena Williams were...