Oscar Johnson

Full name: Oscar Grant Johnson, Jr
Nickname: Jackie Robinson of Tennis

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Bio	On July 4, 1948, he became the first Afro-American tennis player to win an integrated national championship, capturing the National Public Parks junior championship at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, he won it at age 17. In 1953, he joined Gerald Alleyne as the fourth and fifth African-Americans - male or female - to play in the U.S. National Championships. Oscar played mixed doubles in the U.S. National Championships in 1953 with Althea Gibson reaching the Round 16. He led his high school, Thomas Jefferson, to the Southern League title. His coach was ex-USC football star Brice Taylor, who assembled a tennis team of athletes who never played before. He was awarded by the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987 and inducted to the Black Tennis Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Tournament	AO	RG	W	US	Win-Loss
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1	GS Appearances	Subscribe now This information and data is not available because you are not our subscriber yet. Please click here and get full access to the entire database!
2	GS Matches
3	GS Appearances Representing The Same Nation
4	Represented different nations
5	Years Between 2 GS Appearances
6	Years Between The First And Last GS Appearance
7	Decades Between The First And Last GS Appearance
8	GS Final Appearances
9	GS Final Appearances Representing The Same Nation
10	Represented different nations in the GS Finals
11	Years Between 2 GS Final Appearances
12	Years Between The First And Last GS Final Appearance
13	Decades Between The First And Last GS Final Appearance
14	GS Titles