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Nathaniel Jackson: Forgotten Black Wilmington tennis champ never got a shot at greatness

13 Feb Nathaniel Jackson: Forgotten Black Wilmington tennis champ never got a shot at greatness

Posted on February 13, 2021

For at least one day, Nathaniel Jackson achieved a greatness that had been denied him.

So the story goes, that’s the day when Jackson, a Black singles and doubles champion in the 1930s on the segregated American Tennis Association circuit, defeated white British tennis great Fred Perry, who won Wimbledon three years running between 1934 and 1936. (Perry would be the last Brit to win Wimbledon until Andy Murray in 2013.)

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