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For this episode, we're going back to July 1975.

On July 5th, 1975, 31-year-old American Arthur Ash won the men's single title at Wimbledon.

He was the first black person to win in the 98-year history of the famed tennis tournament.

Ash was born in Richmond, Virginia in July 1943.

He lost his mother when he was six.

After his mother's death, his father became very strict.

He started playing tennis when he was seven.

He was eventually discovered by tennis coach Dr. Robert Walter Johnson Jr. Johnson helped Ash develop his skills. In Ash's first tournament, he reached

the junior national championships. He won the junior national title in 1960 and 1961. Asch attended

the University of California on a tennis scholarship.

He graduated with a business administration degree.

In 1963, Ash became the first black man on the U.S. Davis Cup team.

In 1968, Ash, while still an amateur, won the U.S. Open.

In 1970, he took home another Grand

Slam singles title, the Australian Open. Like Wimbledon, he was the first black person to win

these titles. Ash achieved another first for a black person in 1975. He became the number

one ranked tennis player in the world. Arthur Ash retired from tennis in 1980 and five years later he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Ash had health problems at the end of his career and in retirement.

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