Outside the lines is where the dialogue around Billie Jean King usually plays out. And why not? After all, the case can be made that no single athlete has accomplished more beyond the playing field.

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 ...

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.

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

The tennis champion explains how adversity is really an "opportunity" Jenna Wang is an Editorial Intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in CBS Essentials and The Daily Northwestern.

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 ...

Japanese tennis players are taking center stage in the Billie Jean King Cup tournament. With every match, the players carried the weight of representing their country on their shoulders, knowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Montreal’s 2-1 shootout win over Minnesota on Tuesday night, we’re now officially in the final third of the 2024-25 PWHL season. That means there’s just 10 more games left — nine for ...