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Billie Jean King. With 39 Grand Slam titles to her name, including a record 20 titles at Wimbledon, Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. She held the world #1 ranking in women’s tennis for six of the ten years from 1966 through 1975.
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Her tireless efforts to fight injustice and discrimination worldwide continue today. A six-time world number 1 ranking, 39 Grand Slam titles, a crusader for social justice and equality, and the founder of the WTA, Billie Jean King’s accomplishments are many.
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USA Today: New Billie Jean King Award will honor excellence in women’s sports coverage. What to know
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2020: Billie Jean King becomes the first woman to have a major sporting event named after her when Fed Cup is renamed the Billie Jean King Cup. 2021: Billie Jean King receives the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award. 2021: Sports Illustrated honors Billie Jean King with the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award.
Battle of the Sexes Tennis Match | Billie Jean King
A courageous advocate for gender equality for women from a young age, Billie Jean King accepted a challenge to play a match against former number 1-ranked tennis player Bobby Riggs. In doing so, she launched her fight for parity into the worldwide limelight.
Women’s Equal Rights in Sports | Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King has spent her lifetime fighting tirelessly for women’s equal rights in sports, parity and inclusive leadership in the workforce, and LGBTQ rights.
Impact of Title IX on Women’s Sports | Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King had spent the 1960s and early 1970s campaigning tirelessly for parity for women in sports, and in 1972, she turned her focus toward helping to pass Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally funded school programs, including sports.
USA Today: Billie Jean King, Emma Stone relive history of 'Battle of ...
Billie Jean King was buzzing around the National Tennis Center that bears her name on Saturday afternoon. There was nothing new about this. It’s what King does best.
USA Today: New Billie Jean King Award will honor excellence in …
New Billie Jean King Award will honor excellence in women’s sports coverage. What to know. By Roxanna Scott, published to USA Today. The Associated Press Sports Editors, the APSE Foundation and King announced the creation of the Billie Jean King Award for Excellence in Women’s Sports Coverage.
Billie Jean King’s US Open about much more than tennis
The other night, King spoke at three corporate events at the US Open at the national tennis center that bears her name, then went home, saw that Rafael Nadal was still playing but had lost the first set, 6-0, to Austria’s Dominic Thiem, and turned off the light, intending to go to sleep.