Duke Ellington, Sugar Ray Robinson and Joe Louis. American tennis then experienced an influx of Black players during the 1980s, a group largely inspired by Ashe and Gibson, Blackman said.

Former Duke men’s tennis player Sam Landau filed an objection to the House v. NCAA settlement May 15, alleging that head coach Ramsey Smith lured him to Duke on the false promise of substantial ...

Jacobs On a sweltering day in the summer of 1957, a slender young woman from Harlem became the first Black player to win the hallowed Wimbledon tennis tournament ... arms of the Duke of Devonshire.