Billie Jean King made her professional tennis debut in Cannes, in the South of France, in the spring of 1968. That sounds like a suitably glamorous birthplace for such a storied pro career, doesn ...

Billie Jean King announced a return to an activity that she was pursuing before she took the tennis world by storm. The ...

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s tennis courts and winner of 39 Grand Slams – is one of the most successful players of all time. She has also entered the halls of fame as an ...

"A lot of women weren't raised with the idea that competing was something they should do. Along came Billie Jean, just at the moment when a lot of the rhetoric of the women's movement was really ...

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 ...

Billie Jean King calls for major tennis overhaul including scrapping scoring system ...

Listeners will hear from Billie Jean King as she explains her decision with eight other women to demand equality for female tennis players Lindsay Kimble is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE.

NEW YORK (AP) Billie Jean King believes Caitlyn Jenner has given people clarity about transgender issues beyond the progress already made four decades after they shared the international sports ...

Billie Jean King, the 12-time Major singles champion, has shared an emotional message on the 69th birthday of her wife and lifelong partner, Ilana Kloss.

On March 10, 2024, tennis legend Billie Jean King and baseball phenomenon Shohei Ohtani met at the Los Angeles Dodgers facility, uniting their storied sports careers. King, deeply moved by Ohtani ...