Community, Access Entertainment, and Four Daughters are teaming on an adaptation of The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: ...

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 ...

Netflix’s ‘Nonnas’ writer will turn Bruce Schoenfeld’s account of a Jewish woman and a Black woman forming an unlikely ...

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

Before Althea Gibson could play -- much less win -- major tennis tournaments, another opponent had to be defeated. But Gibson had less control against this foe, which went by the name segregation.

As such, it’s important to revisit one of the most pioneering figures to grace the U.S. Open's grounds, the trailblazing Althea Gibson. Gibson made history in 1957 as the first Black American to ...

The Match is an adaptation from Bruce Schoenfeld's book, The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton: How Two Outsiders – One Black, the Other Jewish – Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States Tennis Association will honor Althea Gibson with a statue at the U.S. Open. The first African-American to win the U.S. Nationals singles title in 1957 will be ...

The partnership coincides with the 75th anniversary of Althea Gibson breaking the color barrier when in 1950 she became the first Black tennis player to compete in the U.S. National Championship ...

Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson, Venus and Serena Williams are some of the most prominent Black tennis players in history. There's at least one more name to add to that list: Bob Ryland.

Althea Gibson was Black, and Angela Buxton was Jewish. And in 1956, they faced prevailing racism in the UK and changed the face of professional tennis by winning the ladies’ doubles trophy at ...