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 ...

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 ...

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.

Her work has previously appeared in CBS Essentials and The Daily Northwestern. When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago ...

You can draw a line from the one-dollar contract that Billie Jean King and eight other players signed, in 1970, with the publisher and promoter Gladys Heldman, to form a separate women’s tennis ...

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles, including six Wimbledon championships and four U.S. crowns. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent ...

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 ...

Billie Jean King recently shared a heartwarming message to Japanese professional baseball player Shohei Ohtani after meeting him alongside her wife, Ilana Kloss. Ohtani currently serves as the ...