here are, he insists, only two alternatives. If enough human beings do not advance the common good, we cannot go on; we shall move from suffering a chain of sustainable losses to suffering extinction. But if enough do, if enough coaches find the grace to hold the guilt-stricken athlete who just lost the title and tell him that it's just a game, that he has nothing to be ashamed of, that he can leave his knife in his pocket, then Arthur Ashe will always be on cloud nine. Photograph by Tony Triolo Text by Kenny Moore On the court, Arthur Ashe won the 1968 U.S. Open, the 1970 Australian Open and 1975 Wimbledon championships. His off-court accomplishments were equally impressive: the founding father of the Association of Tennis Professionals, the African-American Athletic Association and the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS; the national campaign chairman of the American Heart Association; and the author of the African-American sports chronicle A Hard Road to Glory. Ashe, who retired from professional tennis in 1979 following open-heart surgery, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. He passed away on February 6, 1993 at age 49 due to complications caused by AIDS.
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