The tennis icon shares how she warms up, keeps her body strong, and continues to inspire girls to give movement a chance.

Billie Jean King made her professional ... At last I was a pro. Pay for play.” Tennis would soon leave the country clubs for good, and follow King into the brave new Open Era, where everyone ...

Tennis icon Billie Jean King recently joined FOS's Baker Machado and Dan Roberts for an engaging discussion at Radio Row in New Orleans before Super Bowl 59. King examined the surge in women’s sports ...

Encouraging women—and also men—into other areas of tennis is vital to the growth of the sport, believes the trailblazer.

Without Billie Jean King, the world for women, particularly women in sports, would look very different. Read more on Grazia.

Billie Jean King gives Madison Keys her flowers after her impressive win at the Australian Open this year.

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Along came Billie Jean ... King, who received $15,000 less than Ilie Nastase did for winning the U.S. Open in 1972, said if the prize money wasn't equal by the next year, she wouldn't play ...

Billie Jean King sparked huge momentum in gender equality with her win over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match. More than 50 years later, King is happy to see the movement ...