Play Davis Cup News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

that's it. >> new ball. >> shots are 2-2. >> got by him. >> comes back with it! >> you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you're playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor's edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body's floating within myself. >> the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and ...

that's it. [ applause ] >> 2-2. >> comes back with it! >> you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you're playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor's edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body's floating within myself. >> the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs. but a new young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced, and ...

Team. he was one of the guys and they didn't look at him as a black tennis player. they looked at him as a tennis player. >> the davis cup was in essence our olympics. for arthur that seemed like a no brainer. who wouldn't want to represent your country? what it entailed was that he had to play up to four weeks a year if you were going to win. like home and away series. if you get a davis cup that looks good on the resume. it was huge to play davis cup. >> arthur was quite an unusual type. he was very sort of skinny and gangly and he had a big serve. most people serve stationary but arthur kin...

His mother. >> don't come up on the ball so much, honey. out more. >> jimmy connors is one of the great effort players who ever played tennis. however, he did some things that sort of made you scratch your head as particularly off the court, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. >> my disappointment early on was he wouldn't join our players union, the atp. he was dyed in the wool blue color of east st. louis. it made no sense to me that he wouldn't do that. >> jimmy was a contrarian. didn't join the atp. arthur is president of the at p. jimmy didn't want to be part of the u.s. team in...

Great effort players who ever played tennis. however, he did some things that sort of made you scratch your head as particularly off the court, and that rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. >> my disappointment early on was he wouldn't join our players union, the atp. he was dyed in the wool blue color of east st. louis. it made no sense to me that he wouldn't do that. >> jimmy was a contrarian. didn't join the atp. arthur is president of the at pp. jimmy didn't want to be part of the u.s. team in davis cup. that didn't sit well with arthur either. >> there simply never had been an american p...