Clarendon native first African-American tennis great
By R. DARREN PRICE
dprice@theitem.com
Posted 2/23/11
Before there were Serena and Venus, there was Althea.
Althea Gibson was the first African-American to rise to the stratosphere of the international tennis world. She was the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon, U.S. Open and French …
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