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Ashe, the first Black player to win Wimbledon, announced that he had contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, a short time after basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with the HIV virus. Ashe was the Class Day speaker at the Harvard Medical School in 1992, and had been active in AIDS education efforts before his death...
...Ashe left the tantrum tennis to Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe and let his silvery racket heap the abuse. The United States Tennis Association ranked him among its top 10 players seven times during the 1970s. He was No. 1 in 1975 when he beat Connors at Wimbledon, and fifth in 1979 when he had his first heart attack and underwent quadruple-bypass surgery...
...good shots and he feels the power to surge ahead. He gets looser and more liberal with the shots he tries, and pretty soon he is hitting shots everywhere. He does not play percentage tennis." That unorthodox brilliance was never better displayed than on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1975 when Ashe faced the enfant terrible of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors swaggered onto the court as the bookmakers' darling. Ashe turned him into an unexpected runner-up with a four-set lesson in pinpoint placement...
...remember I fell into his arms as though we had just won the final," Noah said. "Six years earlier he had autographed a poster for me saying, 'I hope some day we'll see each other at Wimbledon. He was a missionary for Black American sports," Noah said. "Just appearing on a tennis court was a challenge...
Ashe, the only Black person ever to win the Wimbledon and the U.S. Open tennis tournaments, was an active supporter of AIDS research. The tennis star announced last spring that he had contracted AIDS from a 1983 blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery...