Althea Gibson’s tennis legacy lives at the U.S. Open under her granite gaze
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FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. — Her shoulders emerge out of granite, in front of the biggest stadium in the sport that she forever changed. She watches over the field courts and plazas of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where once and future tennis fans gather to see Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton, Naomi Osaka, Frances […]