Arthur Ashe, tennis much more than a

When they reach the months of August and September, tennis fans began to rejoice in what will be one of the great encounters of the year, quoted in the U.S. Open, better known as the U.S. Open.

The main stadium of this competition has been named Arthur Ashe Stadium, named after a tennis star of the open era, so this time we have to briefly review its history.

But statistics do not talk much, or his work as a tennis player, but we refer to life off the court was so productive and positive as it was in the courts.

This tennis player, in his capacity as African American, was one that began to manifest itself publicly against Apartheid in South Africa, including seeking the expulsion of South Africa on the ATP circuit, becoming also the denial of a visa and the impediment to play a tournament in that country.

In 1980 he began to suffer from cardiovascular disease, so it had to be operated in that year and in 1983, leading to one of his biggest struggles.

In 1992, publicly announced that he had contracted the HIV virus in a transfusion, a disease that was manifested in 1988.

Since then he made several campaigns to prevent AIDS, and helped carry the virus worldwide, and create the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health.

On February 6, 1993 took leave of this world, but not before leaving a legacy of life in his memoirs (published in the book Days of Grace) and the honor of 33 ATP titles, a position as the world No 2 and record of being the only black man to win the Australia Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open.