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Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon a half-century ago and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how things would go that day
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. Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the meeting on June 21, 1973, at the Gloucester Hotel — about a mile south of Hyde Park in the heart of the British capital — where King and nearly 60 other players agreed to form what today is known as the Women’s Tennis Association or WTA. A reunion at that same hotel on June 30 is planned, with King, ...
Billie Jean King will return as a special guest to the Australian Open and the AO Inspirational Series in January at Melbourne Park in January.
Trailblazing Judy Dalton and Kerry Melville Reid, as well as other members of the Original Nine, will be honoured at Australian Open 2023.