Tennis Under the Lights Event Series Celebrating Arthur Ashe's Birthday Kicks Off in Richmond

Tennis Under the Lights event series celebrating Arthur Ashe's birthday kicks off in Richmond

Richmond's Tennis Under the Lights series got underway Thursday evening at Battery Park, marking the first of four events timed in part as a nod to Arthur Ashe's birthday.

Arthur Ashe's statue turns 30 on Friday. It wasn't an easy road to Monument Avenue

Visit the intersection of Roseneath and Monument avenues and you will be greeted by a champion. It’s here, near the northwest corner of the Museum District, that the Arthur Ashe Monument resides. Comprised of a 12-foot-tall bronze statue of Ashe atop a 16-foot granite pedestal, the monument celebrates the Richmond tennis great, humanitarian, activist and author.Despite the barriers of race and class in his era, Ashe became the only Black man to …