News

2000 — Venus Williams beats Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first Grand Slam title. Williams is the first black women’s champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957-58.
With two bagels against Daniel Evans and Miomir Kecmanovic in the first week of Wimbledon, Novak tallied his 51st bagel at ...
Carlos Alcaraz continues to strengthen his case as the most accomplished 22-year-old in the history of tennis.
Mike Winters moved from Nebraska to Norman at age 9 in 1971. He says he lived within a 5-iron of Larry Lacewell, Donnie ...
Jimmy Connors was nine years Ashe’s junior when they met July 5, 1975, a lefty slugger coming to defend his Wimbledon title on the heels of the best year of his career. Connors lost all of four ...
Richmond native Arthur Ashe upset Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon final. Fifty years later, it is not viewed as one of the ...
Young tennis sensation Ben Shelton stands on the brink of history at Wimbledon, poised to match Arthur Ashe's legendary ...
Independence Day is typically filled with pyrotechnics celebrating America, and many athletes have used the Fourth of July to ...
On the 50th anniversary of his historic Wimbledon win, Arthur Ashe receives a powerful tribute and fans are sharing what it ...
Richmond celebrates 50 years since tennis pioneer Arthur Ashe broke barriers at Wimbledon, inspiring generations of players ...
This All-Star Game will also be an occasion, in the home park of the Braves, to celebrate an old Braves catcher named Joe ...
Ashe, a man as concerned with politics as tennis, was a one-off. He remains the only player to spend the night before the final playing blackjack at the Playboy Club into the early hours  (“We know ...