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Arthur Ashe
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American tennis player (1943–1993)
OverviewAI-generated
Arthur Ashe was an American tennis player whose professional career spanned from 1970 to 1980. He achieved a career ranking of 2 and recorded a singles record of 699–228 and a doubles record of 315–173. Ashe earned $1,584,909 in prize money during his time on the tour. He was born on July 10, 1943, and died on February 6, 1993.
As an author, Ashe wrote 30 works, including *Days of Grace*, *Arthur Ashe on tennis*, and *A Hard Road to Glory, 1946-1969*. His writings have been referenced by 2,493 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 31 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Thesportsdb, Crossref, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Arthur Ashe
- Days of Grace
- Days of grace
- Arthur Ashe on tennis
- A Hard Road to Glory, 1946-1969
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1993-04-24
Discography
- Don’t Look Back2016
- Orbit2016
- Can’t Hide2016
- Recognize2016
- Let You Get Away2016
- Used to It2017
- Used to It (stripped)2017
- Rewind2017
- Right to It2017
- Girl Who Cried Wolf2017
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 104
- Total plays
- 166
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/arthur+ashe">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
· 2009 · cited 33,833x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,205x
- The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
· 2012 · cited 15,174x
- Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,430x
- The Molecular Signatures Database Hallmark Gene Set Collection
· 2015 · cited 13,178x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- _Retired Tennis
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
~32 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles in singles and two in doubles. Ashe was the first Black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team, and the only Black man ever to win the singles titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980.
Ashe was ranked world No. 1 by Rex Bellamy, Bud Collins, Judith Elian, Lance Tingay, World Tennis and Tennis Magazine (U.S.) in 1975. That year, Ashe was awarded the 'Martini and Rossi' Award, voted for by a panel of journalists, and the ATP Player of the Year award. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at world No. 2 in May 1976.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arthur Ashe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.