Bob Ryland
(1920-2020)
American tennis player and coach
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Bob Ryland (June 16, 1920 – August 3, 2020) was an American former tennis player and coach who is known for being the first African-American to play professional tennis. Ryland has coached some of the world’s top-ranked professionals, including; Harold Solomon, Renee Blount, Leslie Allen, Arthur Ashe, Bruce Foxworth, Venus Williams and Serena Williams. Ryland has also taught and coached at clubs in Bermuda, Puerto Rico, St. Alban’s Tennis Club in Washington, D.C. and the Mid-Town Tennis Club in Manhattan. Ryland was inducted into the Wayne State University Athletic Hall of Fame (1991), Black Tennis Hall of Fame (2009), and the Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002, where he also received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
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2 August 2020 (aged 100)
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