Billie Jean King made her ... It did to the 24-year-old Californian—at first. “The Riviera! What an omen, what a place to start!” she exulted. King had spent the previous decade on the ...

Billie Jean King crushed Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in 1973's "Battle of the Sexes." Yet of all her victories, the one that is remembered most is her beating a 55-year-old man.

“The very first time I saw Billie Jean, I was 10 years old. Billie Jean King, Rosie Casals, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, Tony Roche, all the best players in the world came and I was a ball girl.

she placed her country in the Billie Jean King Cup for the first time. A video posted by the official Twitter handle of the tournament caught this moment, with the 29-year-old Japanese athlete ...

Billie Jean King is officially a Barbie girl. The tennis icon, 76, is the latest female trailblazer to become one of the beloved dolls as part of Barbie’s Inspiring Women Series.

Wins for Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart ensured Great Britain avoided Billie Jean King Cup embarrassment against ... on Saturday and the 27-year-old claimed the decisive point in a 3-1 victory ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova ...