1972: BILLIE JEAN KING and the Breakaway Tennis Tour | Midweek | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive
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- BBC Midweek goes to the United States of America, where a group of women tennis players, led by top professional players like Billie Jean King and Julie Heldman, have formed a co-operative tour in order to achieve pay equality with their male counterparts. This report details the commitment, camaraderie and sacrifice of the group of players whose actions would eventually form the basis for the WTA.
This clip is from Midweek, originally broadcast 16 November, 1972.
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I love the way people looked and the fashion.
BJK HAD A FASCINATING LIFE 10/10 ARCHIVE
Billy Jean King thank you. You are an inspiration still. 🪙🎾🪙
In the 1990s I worked in a nursing home, and I supported a resident who had been a competitive tennis player. Her career was cut short when she developed post polio syndrome as a young woman, and lost the use of her legs.
She loved watching tennis on TV, but refused to watch men's tennis. She said that the men at her tennis club refused to play her, and said that they were afraid that she'd win!
Now here's a reporter who is clearly trying to be professional and trying to be objective... and yet every other sentence he's referring to these grown women as "girls." I realize that's how people talked back then and I'm not blaming this individual, but they talked that way because they hadn't really thought about what they were saying and the implications of it. I think it says a lot about how oblivious even the most well-intentioned people can be to the biases we carry around in our heads.
They are girls
@@willnill7946. They’re women. Adult men aren’t called “boys” except in a joking or affectionate/familiar manner.
The French tennis player Francoise Durr did indeed get married, in 1975, but she didn’t give up the game as she was considering here, and kept going till 1984.
Wow. I didn’t know ppl were giving it up to get into tournaments. Wow!