Billie Jean
Autobiography
By: Billie Jean King, with Kim Chapin
Date: 1974
Source: King, Billie Jean, with Kim Chapin. Billie Jean. New York: Harper & Row, 1974, 164, 165, 168, 169, 177–186.
About the Author: Billie Jean King (1943–) was born in Long Beach, California. At seventeen, King won her first tennis title, in doubles, at Wimbledon in 1960. Over the next twenty years, King won nearly every major tennis championship, including twenty titles at Wimbledon, and thirty United States Open titles. A tireless promoter of tennis and outspoken advocate of women's sports, King was the first female to coach male professional athletes in the United States. She has written five books on tennis techniques and two memoirs.
Introduction
Prior to the late 1960s, women's tennis received neither the media attention nor anywhere near the prize money of men professionals. As...
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