Bianca Andreescu applauds ‘Original 9’ tennis pioneers
Players hailed for launching a new women’s professional tennis circuit 50 years ago
10 September 2020 - 15:33
Bengaluru — Bianca Andreescu has paid tribute to American great Billie Jean King and the eight other female players who signed $1 contracts to launch a new women’s professional tennis circuit 50 years ago.
King, with Americans Rosemary Casals, Nancy Richey, Peaches Bartkowicz, Kristy Pigeon, Valerie Ziegenfuss, and Julie Heldman, and Australians Kerry Melville Reid and Judy Dalton, launched a campaign for equal prize money two years after the sport’s Open Era began in 1968...
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