Althea Gibson: The Tennis Trailblazer Who Trained in Florida
Before she broke the color barrier at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, Althea Gibson honed her game at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
Before she broke the color barrier at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals, Althea Gibson honed her game at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
Chris Evert won 18 Grand Slams and spent 260 weeks as the world’s top player, but she never left the South Florida community where her father taught her to play.