In 1970, the bravery of nine women forever changed ... The players — including Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals, Judy Tegart Dalton, Kerry Melville Reid, Valerie Ziegenfuss, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy ...

Billie Jean King made her professional tennis debut in ... someone who turned the theories of the women’s movement into reality. In 1970, she coaxed the players now known as the Original 9 ...

“Billie Jean always credited my father with being ... It was hilarious . . . I was pathetic at first.” But by 1970, King won her first significant clay-court title, the Italian Open.

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships ... in furthering the cause of women's struggle for equality in the 1970s. She was instrumental in making it acceptable for American ...

Billie Jean King announced a return to an activity that she was pursuing before she took the tennis world by storm. The ...

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s tennis ... John Billie Jean first met tennis fan Elton John in the early 1970s and struck up a long-lasting friendship. In 1974 Billie Jean ...

Her work has previously appeared in CBS Essentials and The Daily Northwestern. When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago ...

Billie Jean King, the 12-time Major singles champion, has shared an emotional message on the 69th birthday of her wife and lifelong partner, Ilana Kloss.

Rally the world: wtatennis.com. THE WTA STORY Billie Jean King and her group of eight other renegades were revolutionary by 1970s standards. A full two years ahead of the passage of Title IX in the ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles ... in furthering the cause of women's struggle for equality in the 1970s. She was instrumental in making it acceptable for American women ...