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...days, Althea was too good to be true. The tricky turf courts of tradition seemed to hold no surprises for the girl who had started out playing paddle tennis on the streets. She was well on her way to a second-round victory over third-seeded Louise Brough when rain stopped the match. While the grass dried, Althea had time to think-and to worry. Next day, Louise Brough brushed her aside with ease...
...Asia. So Althea went out to the West Side Tennis Club in the summer of 1950 and made history by almost upsetting Louise Brough. She went home a loser, and spent the next few summers as an unspectacular but familiar figure at assorted tournaments around the U.S. and Europe. In 1953 she graduated from Florida A. & M. and got a job teaching health and physical education at Lincoln University (then restricted to Negroes) in Jefferson City, Mo. She coached the men's tennis team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year...
...uphill. She grew up in a Harlem tenement, learned the fundamentals of the game playing with crude wooden paddles on the pavements of New York. In 1950, when she was invited to play in the U.S. nationals at Forest Hills, she was leading Former Champion Louise Brough in the second round when a thunderstorm washed out the match. Next day Althea collapsed before seasoned Tennist Brough. From that match until last week, no one really knew if Althea had the drive to match her physical talents; since becoming a name player in 1950, she had won more than a dozen...
...women's title, seemed bothered by a mild cold. A visit to the doctor brought a somewhat different diagnosis-Mrs. Fleitz was pregnant. She dropped out of the tournament immediately. With Althea and Beverly gone, Shirley Fry had it all to herself. She disposed of top-seeded Louise Brough, then romped through the final against Britain's Angela Buxton...
...hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala of Chile downed Denmark's high-spirited Kurt Nielsen, who reached the finals in 1955. Althea Gibson, the American Negro, arrived safely in the quarterfinals, along with fellow Americans Beverly Baker Fleitz, Shirley Fry, and Defending Champion Louise Brough...