#Repost @nytarchives with @get_repost ・・・ At the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, a group of rising tennis stars step into the sunlight. The youngsters, captured by our photographer William E. Sauro, were working on their backhand at a free clinic in June 1967. The tennis club, founded in 1892, moved from Manhattan to the outer borough in 1913 and built a tennis stadium, the first in the U.S., there in 1923. The year after this photo was taken, 97,000 people flocked to the Forest Hills venue to watch the U.S. Open. The men’s singles title that summer was clinched by a 25-year-old computer-programming instructor at West Point, an amateur player who was “the only tennis player to have won an open at $20 per diem and with a free hotel room,” #nytimes reported. His name was Arthur Ashe — the first African-American man to ever win a major. #nytarchives #WilliamESauro https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kmDVAA2zA/?igshid=7109canvokd0
