Arthur Ashe is an icon in the tennis world, breaking barriers to become the first Black male champion of three Grand Slams: the Australian Open; the U.S. Open; and, most famously, beating Jimmy Con…
, teamed for the feature docu, which they spoke about during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event.came from 47 boxes of notes and Dictaphone tapes he uncovered at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, home to Ashe’s archives. The materials had been used as the basis for Ashe’s memoirco-written with Arnold Rampersad and published just months after Ashe’s 1993 death at age 49 from complications of AIDS.
With all of that came health issues, however. Ashe had a heart attack in 1983, and he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 after receiving a blood transfusion during the heart surgery.
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