00:00...Horlam.
00:00...There she played tennis first with a wooden paddle.
00:04They were 15 years of struggle and frustration.
00:07Only two years ago she was ready to quit,
00:09but the State Department asked her to tour Asia and Europe.
00:12She won tourney after tourney, regained her confidence,
00:15but more important, her game matured.
00:18Now she had reached the top, the finals at Wimbledon.
00:21She swept Darlene hard in straight sets,
00:23the first Negro in history to win a major tennis title,
00:27and was presented with a gold trophy by Queen Elizabeth.
00:30Then she completed her historic Grand Slam at Forest Hills,
00:35becoming the first Negro to win the U.S. national title.
00:38...
