It was also the story of Carrington’s own life. Introduced to tennis at 10 by his mother, he learned to play at the all-Black North End Tennis Club in Elizabeth, N.J., in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Carrington Clarke is a North America correspondent based in Washington DC. Previously, he covered East Asia for the network from Seoul. He works across digital, television and radio, and has ...