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Overall Rating:2.67 based on 49 ratings
ItemImageAlthea Gibson had an illustrious career in womens tennis but was also a recording artist and professional golfer. In the 1950s Althea Gibson broke the color barrier in womens tennis and was the first black women to win Wimbledon (1957 and 1958), The US Open (1957 and 1958), and The French Open (1956). Althea Gibson passed away in September, 2003.

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j5961628 (0)
06/02/2005
NO!! NO!! NO!!

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douggglas (0)
07/03/2004
How can you compare Crist Evert to Althea? To say Gibson was better would be like saying on a bright summer day with no clouds in the sky, the sky is blue. Every grows up the daughter of a tennis pro in Florida and with lazer focus concertates on tennis exclusively. Gibson grows up in Harlem and gets a very rought start. With no help from the 'establisment' she finds a way to win 2 Wimbledon titles. Like Pancho Gonzales in the men, there are so many intangibles regarding past and overcoming adversity that need to be factored into the equation of how good were they. These intangibles are quite different from a sheer win/loss ratio. Gibson was a tennis superstar and a superb athlete of the highest level ever.

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Underspin (24)
07/26/2003
Historically important player, who, had it not been for her inability to make a living at the sport, would've played and won many more slam titles through the early to mid 60's. Booming serve and power game a precurser for players like Court and others. Inspiring classic autobiography - I Always Wanted to Be Somebody - perhaps the best tennis book ever written.

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Aprilsmith (0)
04/05/2001
Althea Gibson is unique. Her crowning accomplishment was when she won the championship at Wimbledon even though she was not allowed to play on center court. That day she played so-called singles, but she had several opponents staring at her across that net. They were racism from the system, racism from the crowd, humiliation, and the tennis player who was the only opponent that she was supposed to have played.

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MBR7495OM (0)
10/29/1999
Althea Gibson was the first black female to play Professional tennis and win major championships, that the main I like her

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