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Sports Biographies Alpha Index Index by Sport Index of Women Gibson, Althea Tennis b. Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, SC Something of a tomboy as a youngster in Harlem, Gibson played basketball, stickball, and paddle tennis. She won her age group New York City paddle tennis championship in 1939 and then began taking lessons at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. In 1946, a well-to-do black doctor, Hubert Eaton of Wilmington, NC, took her in to help advance her career. Barred from public courts because she was black, she practiced on Dr. Eaton's backyard court. Gibson began playing in the all-black American Tennis Association tournaments in 1945 and won ten straight women's singles titles, from 1947 through 1956. She was the first black to play in the national indoor tournament, in early 1950, and she finished second, which should have won her an invitation to the U. S. National at Forest Hills. No invitation came until after a letter from former champion Alice Marble appeared in the July issue of American Lawn Tennis magazine. Marble wrote, in part, "If Althea Gibson represents a challenge to the present crop of players, then it's only fair that they meet this challenge on the courts." It took Gibson a while to adjust to the stronger competition she was now facing, but she broke through by winning the French and Italian singles championships in 1956. She also teamed with Angela Buxton to win the women's doubles events at Wimbledon and in the French championship.

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Complete Site Index Home About Us Enshrinees Calendar of Events Museum Membership Press Center Tournament 2002 Facility Use Lawn Tennis Club Indoor Tennis Club Professional Instruction Architectural History Information Research Center Hall of Fame Awards The Newport Casino Tennis Bookstore Tennis Links Contact Information Directions Home About Us Enshrinees Calendar of Events Museum Membership Press Center Tournament 2002 Facility Use Lawn Tennis Club Indoor Tennis Club Professional Instruction Architectural History Information Research Center Hall of Fame Awards Newport Casino Tennis Bookstore Tennis Links Contact Information Directions CLASS OF 1971 Born: August 25, 1927, Silver, South Carolina, United States Citizenship: United States Handed: Right BIOGRAPHY No player overcame more obstacles to become a champion than Althea Gibson, the first black to win at Wimbledon and Forest Hills. Her entry in the U.S. Championships of 1950 at Forest Hills was historic: the first appearance of an American black in that event. It took seven more years for Gibson to work her way to the championship there, in 1957. Tennis was pretty much a segregated sport in the U.S. until the American Tennis Association, the governing body for black tournaments, prevailed on the U.S. Tennis Association to permit the ATA female champion, Gibson, to enter Forest Hills. Two years earlier in 1948, Dr. Reginald Weir, a New York physician, was the first black permitted in a USTA championship, playing in the U.S. Indoor event. Althea's first appearance at Forest Hills was not only a notable occasion it was nearly a moment of staggering triumph. Making her historic debut in a 6-2, 6-2 win over Barbara Knapp, she encountered in the second round third-seeded

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Sports Biographies Alpha Index Index by Sport Index of Women Index to Tennis Choose the first letter of the person's last name: Please note: Only biographies through I are done at this time. A B C D ... W -A- Agassi, Andre Allison, Wilmer Ashe, Arthur Atkinson, Juliette ... Top of Page -B- Becker, Boris Betz, Pauline Bjurstedt, Molla Borg, Bjorn ... Top of Page -C- Cahill, Mabel Campbell, Oliver S. Capriati, Jennifer Connolly, Maureen ... Top of Page -D- Dwight, James Top of Page -E- Edberg, Stefan Emerson, Roy Evert, Chris Top of Page -G- Gibson, Althea Gonzales, Pancho Goolagong, Evonne Graf, Steffi ... Top of Page -H- Hard, Darlene Hart, Doris Hotchkiss, Hazel [Wightman] Hunt, Joseph ... Top of Page -J- Jacobs, Helen Hull Johnston, Bill Top of Page -K- King, Billie Jean Kramer, Jack Top of Page -L- Larned, Bill Laver, Rod Lendl, Ivan Lenglen, Suzanne Top of Page -M- Marble, Alice McEnroe, John McLoughlin, Maurice Moore, Elisabeth Murray, R. Lindley Top of Page -N- Navratilova, Martina Top of Page -O- Osborne, Margaret Top of Page -P- Palfrey, Sarah Parker, Frank Top of Page -R- Richards, Vincent

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Gibson, Althea Althea Gibson receiving congratulations from her opponent, Darlene Hard, for winning the Wimbledon singles finals, 1957 Corbis-Bettmann (1927- ), tennis player Born on August 25, 1927, in Silver, South Carolina, Althea Gibson grew up there and in New York City. She began playing tennis at an early age under the auspices of the New York Police Athletic League, and in 1948 she won the national Negro women's title and held it for 10 consecutive years. While attending Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, she continued to play in tournaments around the country and in 1950 became the first African-American tennis player to enter the national grass court championship tournament at Forest Hills, Queens, New York. The next year she entered the Wimbledon tournament, again as the first African American ever invited. Until 1956 Gibson had only fair success in match tennis play, but that year she won a number of tournaments in Asia and Europe, including the French and Italian singles titles and the women's doubles title at Wimbledon. In 1957-58 she won the Wimbledon women's singles and doubles titles and took the U.S. women's singles championship at Forest Hills. She also won the U.S. mixed doubles and the Australian women's doubles in 1957. Having worked her way to top rank in world amateur tennis, she turned professional following her 1958 Forest Hills win. She won the women's professional singles title in 1960, but with few tournaments and prizes for women at that time she took up professional golf in 1963. From 1973 she became active in sports administration, mainly for the state of New Jersey. Her autobiography

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Gibson, Althea Gibson receiving congratulations from her opponent, Darlene Hard, for winnig the Wimbledon singles finals, 1957 Corbis-Bettmann (b. Aug. 25, 1927, Silver, S.C., U.S.), American tennis player who dominated women's competition in the late 1950s. She was the first black to win the Wimbledon and U.S. singles championships. Gibson grew up in Harlem in New York City and in 1950 became the first black athlete to play Forest Hills, narrowly losing to third-seeded Louise Brought in the second round. She graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, in 1953, and rose to sudden prominence in 1956, becoming the first black to win a major titlethe Wimbledon doublesas well as the French singles and doubles and the Italian singles. She went on to win the Wimbledon singles and doubles and the U.S. singles in 1957-58, as well as the U.S. mixed doubles and the Australian women's doubles (in 1957). Gibson turned professional in 1958, but women's professional tennis at that time offered few tournaments and prizes. After winning the U.S. professional women's title in 1960, she became a professional golfer in 1963, with moderate success. She married William Darben in 1965 and attempted professional tennis again, after open tennis started in 1968, but without much success. In 1971 she was elected to the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1975 she was named athletic director for the state of New Jersey.

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Althea Gibson - Athlete Marlys Henke developed the following multicultural activity for her mathematics class: " TENNIS - Althea Gibson Background Information: Ms. Althea Gibson is known to all as a magnificent athlete. Even though she worked hard to obtain the title, she knew it was necessary for her to be an exceptional tennis player when she first began playing. In 1966, Ms. Gibson was the first black woman to win at Wimbleton. She is and has been named as one of America's most outstanding athletes. She was the top-ranked woman tennis player in the country in 1957 and 1958, and the first black to achieve this honor. Althea Gibson is the first black woman to play international tennis. Born in 1927 in South Carolina, she grew up in Harlem and began playing tennis at an early age. Early in 1981, Leslie Allen became the first black woman since Althea Gibson to capture a major tennis tournament by winning the Avon tennis tournament in Detroit. Problem: Before people can play tennis, someone must plan the construction of a tennis court. Here is a drawing of a tennis court with the measurements indicated in feet. How many cubic feet of asphalt would you order to make a tennis court 3 inches thick? How many cubic yards would be ordered? If you were to construct this court with an apron 10 feet wide, how many cubic yards of asphalt would you order to do the whole job? Developed by Marlys Henke.

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