Tennis still leads the way in women’s sport thanks to Billie Jean King’s example
King, Rosie Casals, Nancy Richey, Kerry Melville, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kristy Pigeon, Judy Dalton, Valerie Ziegenfuss and Julie Heldman – known as the Original Nine – all signed symbolic one dollar contracts to compete in a new tour, the Virginia Slims Series. That evolved into the WTA and later in 1973 the US Open became the first grand slam to offer […]
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