Here is a look at the life of tennis champion and LGBTQ activist Billie Jean King. Personal Birth date: November 22, 1943 Birth place: Long Beach, California Birth name: Billie Jean Moffitt Father: ...

1973-1975, 1980-1981 – President of WTA ... is rededicated as the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The Center is the home of the US Open. 2014 – Establishes the non-profit ...

Billie Jean King during the Lawn Tennis Championships ... she served in the role from 1973–1975, then from 1980–1981. 8. King won the Battle of the Sexes in 1973. In 1973, King defeated ...

Billie Jean King becomes the first female athlete to cross the six-figure ... offers a record $100,000 to the winner of the Avon Circuit Championship. 1980: By now more than 250 women are playing ...

Austin was just 17 years old when she won her first and only WTA Finals title in 1980. The US Open champion dropped just one ...

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson's historic "Thriller" ...

“Rapper’s Delight,” a 14-minute song completed in one take by Sugarhill Gang, became the first commercial rap hit in 1980 ... had to fight to get “Billie Jean” played on MTV in 1983 ...

Wim Fissette was born on 22 March 1980 in Sint-Truiden, a city in the province of ... The 44-year-old has also been the coach of Belgium’s Billie Jean King Cup team since 2023.

The first tie of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals between Spain and Poland was postponed on Wednesday because of a severe ...

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The Billie Jean King Cup Finals will begin in Malaga this week in a closer partnership with the Davis Cup and with some added ...