“The main thing Billie Jean had was a passion,” said her ex ... A pair of examples came in the last two rounds of King’s 1971 US Open title run. In the semis, playing Chrissie Evert for ...

More than five decades after tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in what was known as the “Battle of the Sexes, ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles ... athlete to earn $100,000 in prize money in a year ($117,000 in 1971), and President Richard Nixon called to congratulate her.

King likened Clark's arrival in the WNBA to the arrival of 16-year-old tennis sensation Chris Evert at the 1971 US Open ...

Tennis legend Billie Jean King recalled the difficulties she faced to obtain an abortion in 1971. King, 78, wrote that she underwent the procedure — which required approval from a hospital ...

It was left to the most famous of those older players, top-seeded Billie Jean King, to end Evert’s charmed run in the semis in straight sets. But that wasn’t before Billie Jean, who knew a ...

Prior to 1968, the United States National Championships was an amateur event. It became the U.S. Open in 1968 when the ...

Rebecca Lobo is adamant. WNBA players aren’t jealous of Clark. Other athletes and experts say she’s been “targeted” and there ...

Examples of how sports contribute to the easing of tensions between countries include ping-pong diplomacy of 1971 when United ...

This year, the drink runs $23 and is sold across concession stands at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center ... at the London tournament since 1971, while at the French Open in Paris ...

Played on the hardcourt at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens ... Lucille Wilson from 1943 until he passed away in 1971. Queen Anne Bedroom where jazz trumpeter and ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships ... King became the first woman athlete to earn $100,000 in prize money in a year (1971), and President Richard Nixon called to ...