King, Billie Jean (1943 -), American tennis player who won fifteen Grand Slams between 1966 and 1975.
Billie Jean King was born in Long Beach, California. In 1962, eighteen years, she dethroned Margaret Court, the best tennis player in the world at Wimbledon. She won six times International of Great Britain (Wimbledon) from 1966 to 1968, 1972, 1973 and 1975, four times the U.S. International in 1967, 1971, 1972 and 1974, the International of France (Roland Garros) in 1972 and the Australian Open in 1968, competitions in which Evonne Goolagong and Chris Evert were among his main opponents. She was still, at forty, a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1983.
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