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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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(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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WXOW broke the news on Saturday, September 12, 2026.
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