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Article: Remembering the African American godmother of tennis: Althea Gibson 1927-2003.(Book Excerpt)(Excerpt)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Venus and Serena Williams have dominated Wimbledon for four of the last five years. Venus won the Wimbledon title in 2000 and 2001 when she defeated Lindsay Davenport and Justine Henin; and Serena won the Wimbledon title in 2001 and 2003 when she defeated her sister Venus both years in the final. The Williams sisters won the women's doubles competition in 2000.
This year, Serena, who made it to the Wimbledon final, was defeated by a Russian teenager, Maria Sharapova. Serena's loss ended the Williams sisters' four-year reign of overpowering other Wimbledon players. However, the first black person--male or female--to actually win at Wimbledon was Althea Gibson, who ...