Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton
Q D For Sam my perfect match L For my mum the biggest Wimbledon fan I know A
In the 1950s everything in the world of competitive tennis was white the outfits the balls even the players
Except Althea Gibson With her ace serve solid swing and swift slams at the net Althea should've competed against the best players in the world She'd applied to join the main tennis league in the United States But her application was denied because of the color of her skin
Instead Althea played with a smaller league the only one open to Black Americans Althea just wanted to play the game she loved
