"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., was born in Richmond on July 10, 1943. 

He first picked up a tennis racket as a young boy at a segregated playground near his home.

He was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. 

Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980