Tennis legend Billie Jean King sat down with CNBC's Alex Sherman for a wide-ranging interview on the state of women's sports and uniting tennis across sexes.

On Sept. 20, 1973, top women’s tennis player Billie Jean King defeated former No. 1 ranked men's tennis player Bobby Riggs in a "Battle of the Sexes" match.

Billie Jean King speaks to the media before the first-round Fed Cup tennis matches between the United States and Australia, Feb. 9, 2019, in Asheville, N.C. King had just won the 1972 U.S. Open ...

The men's and women's tennis tours use similar methodologies when ranking players. Here's how the rankings are put together ...

At the first Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in 1973 at Sea Pines on Hilton Head SC, Rosemary Casals defeated Billie Jean King and Nancy Richey Gunter for the title. Margaret Court lost an ...

That's because, when judging tennis greatness, fans and pundits today tend to think only of the tournaments that make up the Grand Slam. Roger Federer has won a record 19 of these majors in his ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - List of men who have finished the year ranked number one since computer rankings were introduced in 1973 1973 - Ilie Nastase (Romania) 1974 - Jimmy Connors (U.S.) 1975 - Connors ...

LONDON - No American player is in the top 10 for the first time since the men’s tennis computer rankings began in 1973. Andy Roddick dropped from No. 9 to No. 11 in the ATP rankings issued Monday.

I don’t think we’ll be back.’” That led the U.S. Tennis Association to make the 1973 U.S. Open the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors.