Billie Jean King made sure USTA led the way on equal pay 50 years ...
... 50 years since Billie Jean King led the charge for equal prize money for men and women tennis players. Congresswoman Sherrill has been a ...
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943), also known as BJK, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles: ...
In 2006, the home of the US Open was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis ... King, USTA Led the Way on Equal Pay 50 Years Ago. (Christine Brennan) ...
News & Press | Billie Jean King
Whether she's in the news, on the news, or writing about the news, one thing is for certain. Billie Jean King always has something to say.
Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's ...
FILE - Tennis star Billie Jean King speaks about sexual equality before the Senate education subcommittee in Washington, Nov. 9, 1973.
Billie Jean King - Page 9 - The New York Times
The tennis champion's activism won equal pay for women at the 1973 U.S. Open. Now 79, she is still leading the fight for equity — in sports and beyond ...
Tennis Legend Billie Jean King Is Still Fighting for Women in Sports
In this episode of The Deal, Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly sit with tennis champions Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss to discuss the ...
Pro tennis has the the smallest gender pay gap - Reddit
The Tennis establishment should be proud that they're making efforts towards equality. I would not complain if women won equal prize money in ...
WTA 50th anniversary: Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals on ... - BBC
The knock-on effects of that meeting at the Gloucester Hotel in London 50 years ago, which led to the formation of the Women's Tennis ...
ORIGINAL NINE SPOTLIGHT: BILLIE JEAN KING - USTA
In this wide-ranging interview, King reflects on the people and events that made Houston possible. She takes us back to that seminal moment in the history of ...
Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's ...
A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they ...
Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's ...
Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon ...
Billie Jean King recalls what Bobby Riggs told her after their historic ...
Nearly 50 years after her historic match against Bobby ... She also fought for equal rights and equal pay and formed the Women's Tennis ...
The “Battle of the Sexes” Sparked 50 Years of Sports Progress
Billie Jean King's 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome capped off a summer of momentous change led by the tennis great.
Billie Jean King's push for equal prize money in 1973 is being ... - TSN
That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the ... pay until 2001, five years before the French Open winners were paid ...
Being... Billie Jean King. Aired 10-11p ET - Transcripts - CNN
You started the Women's Tennis Association 50 years ago. ... BASH (voiceover): Being Billie Jean King is being the face of equal pay in tennis.
Was Billie Jean King in Every Sense the Athlete of the 20th Century?
In her heyday, she was a woman whose life was too often defined in tabloid terms — wearing the “wrong” clothes as a junior tennis player, ...
US Open to celebrate King's push for equal prize money
Equal Pay 50th Anniversary Tennis. Billie Jean King speaks to the media before the first round of Fed Cup matches between the United States ...
THE BILLIE JEAN KING INTERVIEW | InsideTennis.com
We always made sure everybody was okay. ... I had said to the Virginia Slims people, “If I go to him to talk about equal pay, I have to take ...
Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's ...
Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's tennis tour 50 years ago ... sure how things would go that day.(AP Photo ...