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Billie Jean King

United States · 1959–1983

Won 39 majors, then won equal prize money for everyone after her.

39 (all)
Grand Slam titles: 12
Singles majors: 20
Wimbledon titles: The WTA, 1973
Founded

Career

King won twelve Grand Slam singles titles and twenty-seven more in doubles, but her larger legacy is structural: she founded the women's tour, threatened a boycott that forced the US Open into equal prize money, and beat Bobby Riggs in a match watched by 90 million people.

Honours

Founded the Women's Tennis Association
Won the 1973 Battle of the Sexes against Bobby Riggs
Forced the US Open to adopt equal prize money
Twenty Wimbledon titles across singles and doubles

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