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Billie Jean King on Why She’s Finally Getting Her Degree, Her Advice to the Next Generation of Tennis Players and Her Legacy


Billie Jean King on why she's finally getting her degree, Her advice to the next generation of tennis players and her legacy.

Unlike the other female athletes with stars — Sonja Henie, Annette Kellerman and Esther Williams — she is the only one who did not turn to acting. There’s been a rise in women’s soccer, basketball and rugby, and you are part owner of the Angel City Football Club. That was the second wave of the women’s movement, and I used to go and plead with Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug and those guys to use us more because, I said, “We are living it.

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