Althea Neale Gibson was an American professional tennis player and tennis player, and one of the first black athletes to cross the black line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win the Grand Slam title. The following year, she won both the Wimbledon and the US National Championships, then again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press for both years. In total, she has won 11 Grand Slam awards: five singles titles, five doubles titles and one doubles title. Gibson has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. "She is one of the greatest tennis players ever to live," said Bob Ryland, a contemporary of tennis and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams. "Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she beat the Williams sisters." In the early 1960s, she also became the first black female tennis player to join the Women's Professional Golf Tournament.
| Born | August 25, 1927, Clarendon County, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | September 28, 2003, East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.8 m) |
| Retired | 1958 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Int. Tennis HoF | 1971 (member page) |
| Highest ranking | No. 1 (1957) |
| Australian Open | F (1957) |
| French Open | W (1956) |
| Wimbledon | W (1957, 1958) |
| US Open | W (1957, 1958) |
| Australian Open | W (1957) |
| French Open | W (1956) |
| Wimbledon | W (1956, 1957, 1958) |
| US Open | F (1957, 1958) |
| Australian Open | SF (1957) |
| French Open | QF (1956) |
| Wimbledon | F (1956, 1957, 1958) |
| US Open | W (1957) |
Tennis Player Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina, United States on August 25, 1927. She dies at the age of 76, on September 28, 2003.
Tennis player who won Wimbledon for the first time as the first African American woman in 1957.
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Althea Gibson was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1927 is also the year of Rabbit (兔) in the Chinese Zodiac.
She graduated from Floria A&M University in 1953.
She won seven Grand Slam titles in total, including four doubles titles.
She got married to Sydney Llewellyn in 1983, after ending an 11-year marriage with William Darben in 1976.
She opened the door for future African American tennis players like Tennis Player Venus Williams to follow in her footsteps.
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