Black Tennis Player Wimbledon 2025. These tennis stars crafted their careers with a modern style and sensibility that perfectly. The best black tennis players in history carry on a tradition started by legendary tennis players like arthur ashe and althea gibson.

In 1956, gibson became the first black player to win a grand slam singles title when she won the french open, and followed it up the year after with a triumph at wimbledon. The woman who started it all for the black tennis community, gibson was the first black athlete to play professional tennis.