Billie Jean King has accomplished many firsts in her life, and you can add the first individual female athlete to be awarded ...

More than five decades after tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in what was known as the “Battle of the Sexes, ...

Billie Jean King, through her X account, has spoken out on the future of tennis, focusing on best-of-5-sets matches, like ...

The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

United States House of Representatives members Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced ...

Billie Jean King will make history as the first female athlete to be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal after the House ...

Before King started breaking barriers nationally, she started playing as a fifth grader on public tennis courts in Long Beach which now bears her name. The Billie Jean King Tennis Center in ...

Bipartisan legislation to award King the medal passed through the House of Representatives, and now it will head to the president's desk for a signature. Billie Jean King will go down in history ...