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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Tennis icon Billie Jean King will be honored next week as the first female athlete with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for ...

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 ...