Billie Jean King
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November 22, 1943
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Billie Jean King Bio
Billie Jean King is a former American world number 1 tennis player. She was born on November 22nd, 1943 in Long Beach, California. She won 39 major titles in her career, competing in both singles and doubles.
Billie was athletic from a young age. In 1961 she won the Wimbledon doubles championship with Karen Hantze. She went on to capture 20 Wimbledon titles (singles 1966–68, 1972–73, and 1975; women’s doubles 1961–62, 1965, 1967–68, 1970–73, and 1979; mixed doubles 1967, 1971, and 1973–74), US singles (1967, 1971–72, and 1974), French singles (1972) and the Australian title (1968).
Two years after she turned professional (1971), Billie became the first woman to win more than one hundred thousand dollars in one season. In 1973 she beat Bobby Rings in the “Battle of the Sexes” match which set the record for the largest tennis audience and largest purse awarded for a single match at the time.
