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George Stewart (tennis)
George Stewart was a Panama-born tennis player. Stewart, a black player, was dominant in the American Tennis Association (ATA) during the 1940s and 1950s, along with Althea Gibson from the women's bracket.[1] A seven-time singles champion, he won his first ATA title in 1947.[2] In 1952 he and Reginald Weir were the first blacks to compete at the U.S. national championships (modern day US Open).[3] A left-handed player, Stewart was a doubles silver medalist for Panama at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico City and also represented his birth country at the Bolivarian Games.[4] Stewart played collegiate tennis for South Carolina State University (then known as South Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical Institute).[4] References
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