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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...

About seven different ways. he was a shot make jer he would always go for broke. he didn't really want to have ten hits in a rally and then try to win the point. >> here are four of the world's best internationally recognized players. practicing doubles. arthur ashe. bright young member of the united states davis cup team. star of the future. >> the fact my skin is brown. my hair is a certain way. people look at me. sure, he is a negro before anything else. but now it's -- well, it's almost like money in the bank. >> what do you mean? >> well, this world tennis now being the only one i'm a dra...

I with drew people told me. i remember feeling that i couldn't trust anybody. >> arthur had very few memories of her and one of them was the day that she died. she was wearing a blue robe. there was a bird singing in the tree and he remembered her leaving the house. she was being taken to the hospital and that she didn't come back. ♪ >> daddy had the spoent of bringing us up. but paramount in his mind is bringing us up in a way that our mother would approve.

Felt like maybe i was a coward for not doing condition things. joining this protest or whatever. >> hell, no, we won't go. >> without going to where i would help my people receive their freedoms. you would have to draf me. i'm go tomorrow. >> in the 60s it was mohammad ali and arthur ashe. there were really two extremes. one very vocal and one not very vocal. one that identified in the black way. and one that could enter these environments that were the finest clubs and facilities of white america. ♪ i stay locked up in my room ♪ ♪ i know to you it might sound strange ♪ sn

>> when arthur won his father came out, and they embraced and it was very emotional. the only time arthur's father walked on the tennis court to congratulate arthur. >> that day for me was vindication for a couple people. my father, all the sacrifice, the money he spent which he couldn't afford, in order to give one of his children the chance to do what i did. i also thought about my brother. he spent two tours in vietnam. wounded once. >> he called me that night and said, i'm a champion now. people will listen to what i have to say. and being the first black male to win the u.s. open, he was ...