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Arthur Ashe's impact felt far beyond tennis
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Dateline: NEW YORK
On a winter's day, James Blake gave a clinic for children at the Harlem
Tennis Center, the old wood-floored armory where Arthur Ashe once
did the same when Blake was a child.
To Blake's regret, he doesn't remember meeting Ashe and didn't learn
much about him until his death from an AIDS-related illness 10 years
ago Thursday, when Blake was 13.
"The more I learned about him, the more impressed I was with him,"
Blake said before going to Croatia to play this weekend for the U.S.
Davis Cup team, as Ashe did with distinction so many times.
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