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Arthur Ashe Interview
(please click on an interview comment to hear the mp3)
Childhood dreams and Jackie Robinson
Raised in the segregated South
Tennis wunderkind
UCLA scholarship
UCLA tennis
Civil rights movement
1960's California: Liberation
1960's NCAA tennis
The decline of NCAA tennis
Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe quit college as NCAA champions
 Jimmy Connors: NCAA champion at UCLA
Strategies and attitudes
Power has transformed the game
1965 NCAA singles and doubles champion
Competitiveness and popularity of the late 1960's game
Media
Promotion
Davis Cup
Jimmy Connors: Davis Cup
South Africa
Ashe banned from Johannesburg tournament
Court surfaces and the triumph of technology
Jimmy Connors: Challenges of different playing surfaces
Grass courts
Women's tennis
Youth reigns
John McEnroe
Jimmy Connors: Connors-McEnroe-Borg rivalries
Björn Borg
Jimmy Connors: Borg's ill-fated comeback
Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova
Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall
Backhand and serve
Bobby Riggs-Billy Jean King
Jimmy Connors: Bobby Riggs-Billy Jean King match
Men's v. women's tennis: Quality
Men's v. womens tennis: Strategy
Athleticism in tennis
Davis Cup captain
Role of a tennis coach
How to beat Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors: Arthur Ashe
A sport for individualists
Few tennis friends
Jimmy Connors: Friendships
Tennis booms in mid-to-late 1970's
Corporate explosion in tennis
Heart disease
Family history of heart disease
Shocked by his heart disease
Greatest accomplishment
Best-seller: Hard Road to Glory
Black athletes of the 1960's
Today's athletes are less outspoken
Olympic tennis
Post-tennis career
Future of American tennis
Jimmy Connors on Arthur Ashe
Ashe-Connors rivalry: 1975 Wimbledon and clash of personalities
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