2000 — Venus Williams beats Lindsay Davenport 6-3, 7-6 (3) for her first Grand Slam title. Williams is the first black women’s champion at Wimbledon since Althea Gibson in 1957-58.

Jimmy Connors was nine years Ashe’s junior when they met July 5, 1975, a lefty slugger coming to defend his Wimbledon title on the heels of the best year of his career. Connors lost all of four ...

Richmond native Arthur Ashe upset Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon final. Fifty years later, it is not viewed as one of the ...

Independence Day is typically filled with pyrotechnics celebrating America, and many athletes have used the Fourth of July to ...

Ashe, a man as concerned with politics as tennis, was a one-off. He remains the only player to spend the night before the final playing blackjack at the Playboy Club into the early hours  (“We know ...

Half a century later, Arthur Ashe's historic win at Wimbledon paved the way for others to follow in his illustrious path.

On July 5, 1975, Richmond native Arthur Ashe upset Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon final. Fifty years later, it is not viewed ...

2014 — Novak Djokovic wins his second Wimbledon title and denies Roger Federer his record eighth by holding off the Swiss star in five sets. Djokovic wastes a 5-2 lead in the fourth set but holds on ...

Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to ...

Jimmy Connors has warned Jannik Sinner not to listen to any discussion surrounding the French Open final against Carlos ...

For anyone who loves or even likes the game of tennis, Jimmy is a worthy paean to how harrowing the sport can be at its best. The character it carves out from Connors’ story may need some more depth ...