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Tennis legend Billie Jean King and Jeanne Ashe, wife of the late champion for whom the stadium is named, look up at the new retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium as preparations are underway for...
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center , it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.
4 wrz 2022 · Arthur Ashe's widow, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, with CBS Sports' Jim Brown, at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City. CBS News And Arthur Ashe was much more than a tennis player.
26 sie 2013 · She showed off the acrylic globe at the center of the tour, the one that played a video of Ashe’s life while a constellation of his quotations showed overhead in a mostly dark room. She stood...
6 lut 2024 · Ten months later, on February 6, 1993, Ashe—who contracted HIV from one of several blood transfusions he’d had years before during cardiac surgery—died at age 49 of AIDS-related pneumonia, leaving behind his wife and young daughter, Camera (named in honor of her mother’s profession).
5 lut 2023 · Jeanne Ashe, wife of the late Arthur Ashe, points out to daughter Camera as the casket of Ashe is lowered into the ground on February 10, 1993, during internment ceremonies. Ashe died on Feb. 6...
26 sie 2024 · Arthur Ashe stadium in 1997. When it opened, Ashe replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium as the main stadium for the U.S. Open. The stadium features 23,771 seats, 90 luxury suites, five restaurants,...
