When Open Era tennis began in 1968 there was a group of legendary players that made up the ruling class. They were Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Arthur Ashe, Pancho Gonzalez, John Newcombe and Tony Roche ...

When Billie Jean King won the U.S. Open in 1972, she didn't follow with the usual remarks about hoping to win again the next year. Instead, she threatened to not play at all the following year and ...

Billie Jean King at the time was angry that the $10,000 she earned for her 1972 U.S. Open victory was $15,000 less than what men’s champion Ilie Nastase won.