Billie Jean King serving the ball during a match at Wimbeldon, 1970. / Tony Duffy/GettyImages There are four main types of tennis surfaces people can play on: grass, carpet, clay, and the hard court.

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.

They show the world in the 1970s that women don’t simply belong ... the story of the famous primetime tennis match between ...

In 1970, when King and eight other female players ... In 2006, the US Tennis Association named its main facility in New York City the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

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 ...

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 ...

Another thing that helps motivate Meyer is the work tennis great Billie Jean King did for the female sports ... Meyer took up the game as a girl in the 1970s. After she retired, she remained ...

The legendary producer, who died in November 2024 at the age of 91, worked with the likes of Aretha Franklin and Frank ...

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 ...

But when I ask those same students if they recognize the name Billie Jean King, only a handful can do ... Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur ...