On 10 Born July was 1953 Arthur Ashe, the first African American player to play tennis. Ashe began playing tennis at the age of 6 years. IN 1963 Age was the first African American player will win the U.S. Men's Hard Court Championship and the first to be named the to a U.S. Junior Davis Cup. He was the NCAA singles and doubles champion leading UCLA to NCAA titles in 1965.
In 1973, Ashe, the first African American to reach the South African Open final in Johannesburg wasAfrica, the cooperation with Tom Okker of the Netherlands and the double win.
After his retirement, was captain of the Ahse USDavis Cup team and led his team to consecutive victories in 1981 and 1982.
In 1982, Ashe underwent a heart operation, he became national champion chairman for the American Heart Association, National Association, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council as a non-medical members.
In 1988, Ashe underwent brain surgery after he discovered that heTreaty of AIDS, which exposure to infectious blood, after he underwent a second heart operation in 1983. On 6 February, Ashe died in 1993 in New York City. His body was laid into the mansion of the governor in Virginia alone. Announced in 1996, his home town to erect a statue in his memory. In 1997, appointed a new stadium at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York was after him. Ashe was one of the first African American to reach manyThings during his life and will live long in my memory.
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