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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: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles .
King's overall win–loss record at the French Championships/Open was 22–6 .786 in 7 years (1967–1970, 1972, 1980, 1982). (Her win total does not include any first round byes but does include one walkover.) King was 1–0 in finals, 1–1 in semifinals, and 2–4 in quarterfinals. She failed to reach the quarterfinals only once, in 1982 ...
In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case.The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, [4] which King won in three sets.
Billie Jean King has been in the spotlight for decades. The winner of 39 grand slam titles, King was at one point the number one tennis player in the world. A fierce advocate for gender equality ...
The focus on gender equity at the Paris Olympics is the latest win in a terrific run of progress for women's sports, tennis champion and pioneer Billie Jean King told Reuters, as organisers ...
Billie Jean King is still globetrotting in support of more investment and equity in women’s sports. “We’re kind of at a tipping point,” King said. ... when a 29-year-old King established ...
Billie Jean King Cup. The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of ...
Obama introduced the 79-year-old tennis legend by recalling h ... Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becoming the first sporting event to offer equal prize ...