Billie Jean King recalls the meeting that launched the WTA women's tennis tour 50 years ago

A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon and acknowledges she wasn't sure how things would go that day.

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