The champion tennis forgot: Before Ashe, before Serena, came Althea Gibson - How It All Played Out
Mark Pougatch and Paul Hayward bring you the story of Althea Gibson - don't worry if you've never heard of her, few have!
Arthur Ashe is a name immediately recognisable to every tennis fan - and most sports fans.
He was the first Black man to win the US Open, the Australian Open and Wimbledon - and the largest tennis stadium in the world, the US Open main court, is named after him.
But he wasn’t the first Black player to win a Grand Slam. That honour went to New Yorker Althea Gibson, who won the French open in 1956 - a whole decade before Ashe. She also won both the US Open and Wimbledon in…
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