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Wimbledon in a Cornfield

This is Love

CHAPTER

The Last Straw

Arthur Ashe played Jimmy Connors in the Wimbledon finals on July 5th, 1975. He was the first and still is the only black men singles champion at Wimbledon. Mark says he occasionally thought about that idea he'd had to put a tennis court in the middle of a corn field. In 1990 they moved into the house next door to the cattle feedlot.

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