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 Arthur Ashe Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Ashe Stadium, located in Flushing Meadows Park, is the main tennis stadium of the U.S. Open, the last of each year's four Grand Slam tournaments.
The stadium is also where the annual Arthur Ashe Kids Day takes place.
The stadium was named after the famous African American tennis player, Arthur Ashe, who won the inaugural U.S. Open in 1968.
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 Arthur Ashe - MSN Encarta
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993), American tennis player, the first African American man to win a major tennis tournament.
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia.
Ashe also became involved in various charitable and youth-oriented activities such as the National Junior Tennis League and the ABC Cities Tennis Program.
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 Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe was a tennis star of the 1960s and 1970s and also an African-American pioneer: he was the first fl man to win at the U.S. Open and Wimbledon.
Ashe retired in 1980 and was elected to the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985.
Ashe served in the U.S. Army from 1966-68, reaching the rank of second lieutenant...
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 Arthur Ashe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashe chose to use this denial to publicize South Africa's apartheid policies.
The main stadium at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Park, where the U.S. Open is played, is named Arthur Ashe Stadium in his honor.
FBI files—Arthur Ashe is mentioned within six references of records maintained within FBIHQ main files concerning the Black Panther Party, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Revolutionary Union and two newspaper articles.
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 Ashe & Armstrong Stadiums
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a four-level structure designed by Rossetti Associates Architects, the same Birmingham, Mich., firm that designed the stadium at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Miami, which is the home of the Nasdaq-100 Open and the USA Tennis High Performance offices.
Louis Armstrong Stadium was the original centerpiece of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center until the expansion of the facility in 1997.
Other changes made to the stadium include the modernization of the Great Hall, the main hallway encircling Louis Armstrong Stadium, new flooring and lighting, and a new exterior that was refaced in brick to match Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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 Arthur Ashe - Search View - MSN Encarta
Ashe also won doubles championships at the French Open in 1971 and at the Australian Open in 1977.
Ashe survived heart surgery in 1979 and announced his retirement from competition a year later.
During a second heart surgery in 1983, it is likely that Ashe was given blood tainted with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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 ESPN.com: GEN - Arthur Ashe
On the court, Ashe is best remembered for the cool manner in which he dismantled the heavily-favored and defending-champion Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon in 1975, becoming the first fl man to win the prestigious All-England Club event.
In 1988, Ashe was discovered to be HIV-positive, having been infected with the virus during a blood transfusion connected with his second heart surgery in 1983.
Ashe died Feb. 6, 1993, but his memory lives on in the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, in Arthur Ashe Stadium at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., and in the hearts of all the people he touched and inspired.
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 Arthur Ashe Remembered - Tennis
Arthur Ashe was a skinny little kid who learned tennis on the public courts in Richmond, VA during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
Ashe graduated at the top of his high school class, earned a scholarship to UCLA where he won the NCAA individual and team titles.
With all that Ashe accomplished in his 10-year tennis career, he is also remembered for everything he did away from tennis off the court.
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 ARTHUR ASHE STADIUM - Historical Sign
Constructed and opened in 1997, this stadium at the northern end of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, replaced Louis Armstrong Stadium as the main tennis facility in the park and became the headquarters of the National Tennis Center.
During the remainder of the year, the indoor and outdoor courts of the stadium are open to the public.
Ashe is memorialized in the stadium with a bronze statue sculpted by Eric Fischl.
nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12014   (507 words)

  
 Arthur Ashe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Arthur Ashe was the first fl man to win a U.S. tennis championship (1968) and the first...
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a four-level structure designed by Rossetti Associates Architects, the same...
Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 10, 1943.
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 Ashe heap
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a disaster, possibly the worst sports venue in America.
Fans in the depressingly designated Row Z at the very top of Ashe, peering at a court a fraction of the size of a baseball diamond, sit 120 feet in the air, higher even than their counterparts at neighboring Shea Stadium.
But even on the U.S. Open's final weekend, when the stadium is routinely announced as being sold out and no important matches are being played on the outer courts, Ashe is rarely filled with fans.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium opens without a hitch
The stadium's red, brick facing has a Camden Yards feel about it and the theme is carried over to some of the outer courts.
 The stadium faces the old World's Fair Unisphere, with its fountains shooting water in the air, and the promenade is a pretty walk with plenty of space, a marked contrast to the old elbow-to-elbow, push-and-shove motif of the old layout.
The official dedication of the new stadium was conducted Monday night with Harry Marmion, president of the USTA, and ex-mayor David Dinkins, who helped negotiate the land deal that doubled the space.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium Seating Chart - Help Me Choose My Seats - Tennis Tickets
Keep in mind that this is a tennis stadium, not a baseball or football stadium.
Simply put, even if you sit high up in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the atmosphere of this venue is like no other.
You can buy general admission seating but it wont be good for Arthur Ashe where all of the premier matches are.
www.tickco.com /choose_seats/tennis/Arthur_ashe_stadium.htm   (650 words)

  
 The U.S. Open '97: Tribute to Arthur Ashe
In an era when the names of stadiums and arenas are auctioned for corporate millions, the memory of a historic athlete and sociological statesman persuaded the United States Tennis Association to name its center-court stadium after him.
But now his name will be on the main stadium of a $238 million tennis complex that will be open to the public each year during the 11 months before and after the Open.
Arthur Ashe would smile at the idea of all public courts, even the one with his name on the wall outside it.
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 The worst stadium in America. By Peter Dizikes - Slate Magazine
Michael Schaffer defended the concrete-encrusted, '70s-era stadiums that are vanishing from baseball and the NFL.
In comparing Arthur Ashe stadium to the Armstrong and Wimbledon stadiums, Mr.
The good things about Ashe Stadium are (a) its named after Arthur Ashe, tennis hero and first US Open champion and not bazuka.com, Enron, etc (b) Louis Armstrong Stadium, which Ashe replaced, has been scaled down now that it hosts the lesser matches.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium: Insights on Stadium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Arthur Ashe Stadium tickets, Arthur Ashe Stadium schedule at Cheappremiumtic...
About Arthur Ashe Stadium More than 30 years after Arthur Ashe won the US Open, the name Arthur Ashe lives on in the hearts and minds of those who remember him as one of the top tennis players and...
Arthur Ashe Stadium Seating Diagram Louie Armstrong Stadium Seating Diagram Choose From Tickets in General Seating Locations Because the better seats in the live inventory may be limited, we offer...
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 CNN/SI - Arthur Ashe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The centerpiece of a $254 million expansion of the National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y., Arthur Ashe Stadium hosted its first U.S. Open in 1997.
The U.S. Tennis Association announced the stadium's name at a February 1997 press conference attended by Ashe's widow, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.
"Arthur Ashe was an outstanding tennis player," USTA president Harry Marmion said, "but we are naming our new stadium in his honor because Arthur Ashe was the finest human being the sport of tennis has ever known."
si.cnn.com /tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/stadium.html   (116 words)

  
 Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson honored at opening of new stadium - tennis players; Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York, New York ...
TWO of tennis' all-time greats, Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, were honored and remembered at the opening of the new Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York.
The 22,547-seat stadium was dedicated in Ashe's memory and on Gibson's 70th birthday.
She blazed the trail for Ashe and Venus Williams, becoming the first Black person to win a Grand Slam tennis tournament when she won the French Open in 1956 and continued to dominate with back-to-back Wimbledon titles in 1957 and 1958.
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 The US Open 2006 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official Site by IBM - History & Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Venus Williams makes her US Open debut, also on Arthur Ashe Stadium Court, and defeats Larisa Neiland in the first round 5-7, 6-0, 6-1.
Arthur Ashe plays the most exciting match of the day, saving three match points in the second-set tie-break to defeat Ross Case 4-6, 7-6, 6-1 in a best-of-three-set first round match.
Ashe is the first African-American male to win a Grand Slam tournament.
www.usopen.org /en_US/about/history/anec_day.html   (7111 words)

  
 Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets
TicketCity.com is your source for all events at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
While ending a 12-year drought for U.S. men in the nation's premier tennis tournament, Ashe, more significantly, became the first fl man to win a Grand Slam event, proving to the world that tennis was indeed "open".
Hisname lives on at the USTA National Tennis Center in Arthur Ashe Stadium, one of the grandest facilities of any tournament - Grand Slam or otherwise - in the world.
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 Official Ticketmaster site. Arthur Ashe Stadium Flushing, NY tickets . Directions, seating chart, events.
If match play in Arthur Ashe for a Day Session begins prior to 5:00pm or an Evening Session begins prior to 9:45pm and either one match is completed (in one hour or more) or 90 minutes of tennis has been played, the Inclement Weather Policy does not apply, as the session is officially completed.
If match play in Louis Armstrong Stadium, Grandstand or on any outer courts begins prior to 5:00 pm and either one match is completed (in one hour or more) or 90 minutes of tennis has been played, the Inclement Weather Policy does not apply.
Stadium ticket holders) will be applied toward their 2007 ticket plan renewal.
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The Informmation Booths are located opposite the Food Court on the east side of Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The USTA provides permanently stationed elevator operators in two elevators at the south entrance to Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Two handicap lifts are available in Stadiums 2 and 3, in the south hallway; access to the lifts can be gained by going to the Stadium Operations office directly accross from the lifts.
www.nyc.gov /html/sports/html/usta-access.html   (363 words)

  
 Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, NY - AOL City Guide
Perhaps it's fitting that the largest and most well-conceived tennis venue in the world should bear Arthur Ashe's name -- after becoming the first African-American to win the US Open and Wimbledon, Ashe went on to earn the respect of not just the tennis community, but the world at large.
The state-of-the-art stadium dedicated in his honor is the perfect place to watch a tennis match -- the sightlines are perfect, the occasional summer breezes are cool and at night the place possesses an indefinable magnetism that some suggest can only be found in New York.
Arthur Ashe is the best place to be i had such a blasted i was there on Aug 30th and i loved it.
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 Arthur Ashe
Tennis legend Arthur Ashe's statue unveiled in his hometown.(Richmond, Virginia)
Arthur Ashe, activist tennis legend, succumbs to AIDS/pneumonia.
Arthur Ashe's widow ways she is not in agreement with husband's statue being erected amid Civil War heroes.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium Seating Chart, Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets, Arthur Ashe Stadium Maps
Arthur Ashe Stadium Seating Chart, Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets
Arthur Ashe Stadium, named for the legendary tennis great who won the 1968 U.S. Open, is the centerpiece of the USTA National Tennis Center.
Opened in 1997 and widely acclaimed as one of the finest tennis facilities in the world, Arthur Ashe Stadium is home to the U.S. Open.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium - tickets, directions, seating charts for Arthur Ashe Stadium (Corona, New York)
Arthur Ashe Stadium - tickets, directions, seating charts for Arthur Ashe Stadium (Corona, New York)
Arthur Ashe Stadium is located in Corona, New York.
Arthur Ashe Stadium has a seating capacity of 22,574 and is well known in the area.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium Seating Chart, Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets, Arthur Ashe Stadium Maps
With four tiers of seating, 90 luxury suites and five restaurants, Arthur Ashe Stadium allows spectators to enjoy tennis in style.
Dating back to 1881, the men’s U.S. Open is one of tennis’ Grand Slam events and boasts an impressive list of former winners like Andy Roddick, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Boris Becker, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Jimmy Conners, Rod Laver and Bobby Riggs.
If you need U.S. Open tennis tickets or Arthur Ashe Stadium tickets, you need to check with Gotickets first.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium - Tickets to Tennis Tournaments - Flushing, New York
Arthur Ashe Stadium - Tickets to Tennis Tournaments - Flushing, New York
Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets are available now at TickCo Premium Seating.
We are not affiliated with Arthur Ashe Stadium, Ticketmaster® or any box office.
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 Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets - NY Venues - Arthur Ashe Stadium Events
Arthur Ashe Stadium Tickets may be purchased 24 hours a day through our secure online servers or by phone at 1-800-669-0571.
Our ticket inventory is continually updated so check back often or call us if the seats you desire are not available, Provided on left hand top Corner is a link for a seating chart for this venue if available.
All Arthur Ashe Stadium ticket sales are final and non-refundable and purchases are shipped through FedEx.
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