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Sanya Richards-Ross Attends USTA ICON Awards

Fresh off an individual track and field win at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross spoke with What's The 411TV correspondent Andrew Rosario at the USTA ICON Awards.

Sanya spoke about winning in London, looking forward to Brazil in 2016, and working with her sister on her hair extension line. She also expressed that being in the room with Coach Pat Summitt and tennis legend Billie Jean King was so inspirational and that it reminds her that there is omuch to sport than competing.

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US Tennis Association Celebrates Diversity and Inclusion at 2012 ICON Awards

Jonathan Vegosen, President and Chairman of the Board, USTA; spoke with What's The 411 TV's Andrew Rosario about the mission of the U.S. Tennis Association and the USTA ICON Awards.

The 2012 USTA ICON Awards in its fourth year and held at the US Tennis Center during the US Open, celebrates diversity and inclusion. This year, the USTA ICON Awards honored Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Head Coach and now Head Coach Emeritus, with the Billie Jean King Legacy Award. Ms. Summitt is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history of either a men's or women's team in any division.

The association also honored posthumously 2012 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee and wheelchair tennis pioneer Randy Snow and former USTA CEO and pioneer of the Diversity and Inclusion Department at the USTA, the late Lee Hamilton.

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Leslie Allen, Keeper of the Arthur Ashe Legacy

Leslie Allen is a retired American tennis player and keeper of the legacy of tennis champion, Arthur Ashe through the Arthur Ashe Foundation.

The mission of the foundation is HIV/AIDS education. The foundation carries out its primary mission by training medical professionals from around the world in the latest protocol at Cornell Medical Center.

Money for the Arthur Ashe Foundation has been raised at the U.S. Open for the past 21 years by selling tennis artifacts and many are signed by tennis players. The donated tennis products can also be purchased by bidding on the foundation website, www.ArthurAsheAIDSendowment.org.

Also at the U.S. Open, the Arthur Ashe Kids Day is exposing a lot of kids to tennis, Arthur Ashe's legacy, and to fun.

Ms. Allen represents the top 20 tennis players as a member of the World Tennis Association's board.

Through her organization, Win 4 Life (www.LeslieAllen.net), Ms. Allen introduces young people to the behind-the-scenes careers in tennis. Every year, she also has young people working the Arthur Ashe Foundation booth at the US Open.

WATCH VIDEO WITH LESLIE ALLEN

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Billie Jean King Shares Her Insights About Coach Pat Summitt

Billie Jean King, an icon on the world tennis stage, spoke glowingly about Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Head Coach.

In her conversation with What's The 411 TV's Andrew Rosario, Ms. King will at least make you chuckle with her humorous comments about Coach Summitt.

"She was so much fun to watch coach, not only watch the team play, but to see her look at them, and motivate them, and stare at them, and yell at them. She said she mellowed over the years. The winningest coach, 1098 games, eight national championships, but the most important thing, which you're going to hear when I speak, is that every single player, every single player that she ever coached graduated. That's the big deal I think." (Editor's note: me too!)

Ms. King also states that Ms. Summitt would have been a great tennis player.

A little known fact is that Ms. King played basketball before she played tennis.

The 2012 USTA ICON Awards in its fourth year and held at the US Tennis Center during the US Open, honored Pat Summitt, the former University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Head Coach and now Head Coach Emeritus, with the Billie Jean King Legacy Award.

The association also honored posthumously 2012 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee and wheelchair tennis pioneer Randy Snow and former USTA CEO and pioneer of the Diversity and Inclusion Department at the USTA, the late Lee Hamilton.

The USTA ICON Awards celebrates diversity and inclusion.

Billie Jean King is a former professional tennis player. She won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.

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