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Alexander the Great: One Moment in Time
Bill Simons Years ago, on the opening night of Arthur Ashe Stadium, after Whitney Houston belted out her epic song, “One Moment in Time,” African American tennis star Leslie Allen suggested Arthur Ashe was looking down from heaven and smiling. Today I had a hunch that, up there, Ashe again may have been checking out […]

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The Minister of the Interior Triumphs
Bill Simons  At the Open we saw Aryna Sabalenka with her dog Ash on a leash, a $110,000 necklace on her neck, a Tiger tattoo on her arm and a problem on her hands. Elena Rybakina. Never mind that the Australian Open champion had been hobbled by an ankle injury in August, and over the […]

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Bill Simons Now that Ben Shelton has become the first Black to reach the US Open since Arthur Ashe in 1972l, we look at the most vivid moments in Black tennis history. 1. ALTHEA: The sharecropper’s daughter and pride of Harlem, Althea Gibson broke tennis’ color barrier at the US National Championships in 1950. Seven […]

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A year after 9/11, I journeyed to Ground Zero, where people gathered, remembered and mourned. I wrote this. ***** A Sunday hush descends. The September morning glistens, a tease of autumn crispness. Towering business fortresses stand empty. The Brooklyn Bridge radiates an aging beauty, quiet and gentle. Still, I feel dread. My mind races as […]

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Bill Simons Tennis loves contrasts. Lefty against righty. Power against touch. Youth against age. Fire against ice. But tonight’s US Open semifinal offers one of the most striking personality contrasts in the women’s game. Vibrant and open, tears and giggles – Coco Gauff lets you in. Elena Rybakina doesn’t. Gauff has been on tour since […]

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