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More than 50 years after Arthur Ashe, Black men’s tennis players reflect on a historic US Open breakthrough
Shelton became the first Black American man in more than 50 years to reach the final, reviving attention to Ashe’s legacy and civil rights activism.
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Before Ben Shelton there was Arthur Ashe, the 1st Black American to reach a U.S. Open final
Ashe, who learned to play tennis on segregated courts, won the first U.S. Open in 1968.
More than 50 years after Arthur Ashe, Black men’s tennis players reflect on a historic US Open breakthrough
(CNN) — The word “historic” has been thrown around a few times at this year’s US Open. But when Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe stepped onto Arthur Ashe Stadium on Friday, they made a kind of history American men’s tennis…
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