I don’t think Althea would have lost to all the women Serena lost to. Tennis historian Richard A. Hillway The events in Gibson's honor come just days before Serena Williams, who was the first ...

The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson” ( St. Martin’s Press). “ In time, the whole world would come to know the name of Althea Gibson as a global tennis sensation and sports legend.

Jacobs - Author, Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson Althea Gibson leaves Forest Hills court accompanied by Alice Marble and applause of spectators. New York Daily News Archive ...

South Carolina native and tennis legend Althea Gibson paved the way for these African American tennis greats. In 1956, Gibson was the first Black tennis player to win a Grand Slam. She won 11 ...

Ad Policy American tennis star Althea Gibson hits a return shot to Colette Monnot during her singles match at the Surrey Grass Court Championship, held at the Surbiton Racket and Fitness Club.( ...

new tennis queen was born Althea Gibson of New York known for her strong serve in lightning fast feet. Althea Gibson took the tennis world by storm in the 19 fifties. She cemented herself in ...

Author Ashley Brown will speak at the Los Angeles Tennis Club on her new book, Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea ...

Althea Gibson represents to black professional tennis players what Jackie Robinson is to American blacks in Major League Baseball. Gibson, a 1950s era player, pioneered the way for Arthur Ashe ...

Community, Access Entertainment, and Four Daughters are teaming on an adaptation of The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a Friendship and ...

Winning a Grand Slam is every tennis player's dream, but winning 23 of them in singles and 14 in women's doubles with your ...

The movie adaptation will tell the story of the improbable friendship of tennis pioneers Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton, who ...

The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson, showing how Gibson navigated an often antagonistic world in the only way she could—and, as Jacobs suggests, the only way the world would let her.