Authur+Ashe

Authur Ashe was the first black tennis player. He had many struggles. One was discrimination as a child to becoming a pro tennis player. Two Mr. Ashe had several health problems. These struggles made him a persevering person.

Authur Ashe was born in a blacks only hospital and lived in a blacks only neighborhood. His mother Matte taught her son the importance of reading and loved for him to listen to music with her. As a child learned to play tennis at age seven but before he started playing tennis he would go and watch white people play tennis. He started taking lessons from Ronald Charity, the best tennis player in his state in the summer when he was eight. By age ten he started getting help from Dr.Robert W. Johnson and spent eight summers with him.

How Authur Ashe came a pro tennis player came with a lot of work. Authur did a lot of other sports like baseball and basketball but focused on tennis.He got a scholarship from UCLA and was the first black to go to UCLA. While there people noticed he had talent in tennis.By the year 1963 he was playing for the U.S Davis cup team. This led Authur Ashe to winning the US open, Australian open and Wimbledon.After playing tennis for so many years led to him getting into international tennis hall of fame in the year 1985 and winning 33 titles.

Authur Ashe had a health problem that took his life.The problem started after he had a heart attack in the year of 1979. He found out he had Aids was when they ran a blood test. After having a surgey on his brain the doctors told him he had full blown Aids. He did not survive Aids.

Authur Ashe was a perserving person in what he left in tennis. There is a stadium named after him in New York city. He also left a wife and a daughter.

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Humphrey, S. (2005). //Dare to dream, extraordinary lives//. (pp. 86-87). NewYork: Prometheus Books.

Steins, R. (2005). //Authur ashe a biography//. Wesport CT: Greenwood Press. DOI: www.greenwood.com The new book knowledge. In (2011). Grolier Online. Retrieved from http://nbk.grolier.com/ncpage?tn=/encyc/article.html&id=a2001644-