Has won 39 Grand Slam championships overall in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, including 12 Grand Slam singles titles. Is the founder and first president of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).

'Give Me the Ball!', a new documentary about the tennis legend that premiered Jan. 27 at the Sundance Film Festival, is screening through Feb. 1 Billie Jean King and her former husband, Larry King, ...

Tennis icon Billie Jean King received the Congressional Gold Medal, becoming the first individual female athlete to receive the honor. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law Thursday “in ...

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From the top floor of a London hotel, Billie Jean King scans the city skyline through her fuchsia spectacles with the air of a businesswoman perfecting a sales pitch. While most octogenarians are ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Tennis pioneer Billie Jean King added another first to her list of accomplishments Monday when her star was unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. King, a groundbreaking sports figure and graduate of ...

Billie Jean King darts across a makeshift stage at the El Museo del Automóvil y la Moda de Málaga, where she's hosting the first-ever Power of Women's Sports Summit. She's launching tennis balls into ...