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Billie Jean King spoke with the Tribune just after attending Wimbledon and had much to say about the current state of the ...
The play at Chicago Shakespeare Theater dramatizes the dramatic and impactful life of a legend with a muscular performance by ...
There are no balls or rackets onstage, but chameleon-like actor Chilina Kennedy learned some of her moves from tennis legend ...
In the final few minutes of “Billie Jean,” the new play with Broadway aspirations at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, we follow ...
Emma Raducanu is playing the right kind of tennis ahead of the US Open, says Billie Jean King Cup captain Anne Keothavong; ...
Comedy legend Lily Tomlin is also one of the producers of the world premiere play about the personal and professional life of ...
Tennis legend Billie Jean King has some unfinished business. King's athletic achievements are groundbreaking: she's won 39 Grand Slams, ranked No. 1 nationally a total of six times from 1966 to ...
To Billie Jean King, it doesn’t really feel like it’s been 50 years since she spearheaded the charge for equal prize money for women’s tennis players and, in turn, changed the landscape of ...
Billie Jean King has urged players that are struggling with the demands of being a tennis professional to seek support from psychologists. Two years ago, four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka ...
Billie Jean King always knew that she’d make a difference. “When I was seven, I was drying dishes. I go, “Mommy, mommy, I'm going to do something great with my life. I know it. I just know ...
Billie Jean King was an athlete first. Quickly, she became a champion, many times over. She had a remarkable tennis career. But that was not enough, not nearly enough, for BJK, as she came to be ...