Arthur Ashe Twice-Signed Personal Game Used Tennis Racket PSA DNA COA RARE
$12,495.00
Vintage AMF Head "Arthur Ashe Competition" tennis racket used and signed twice by legendary tennis player Arthur Ashe. This racket has a unique provenance. The consignor was a scholarship collegiate tennis player and a friend of Arthur Ashe. After their respective competitive careers ended, they often played tennis recreationally together. This racket was used by Ashe during one of their tennis outings, after which Ashe presented it to him as a gift and also signed it twice, once on each side of the handle. Both signatures have been scripted in black marker. The racket (4 5/5 M grip size) displays heavy wear to the leather grip. Full LOA from PSA .
Arthur Ashe was the first African American to win singles titles at Wimbledon, the Australian Open, and the U.S. Open. One of the top players on the circuit during the early-to-mid 1970s, he rose to become the No. 2 ranked player in the world according to the ATP computer rankings in 1976. Following his tennis career he was a prominent civil rights activist and later founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS (the disease he contracted while receiving a blood transfusion). After his death in 1993 at the age of 49, he received several posthumous honors, including being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and having the main court for the US Open renamed Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Bin #27 (Blue, on top)
