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Who are the 15 most inspirational women in tennis? SUZI PETKOVSKI reveals who she considers as the biggest game changers in the past 50 years.

June 2023 marks 50 years since the formation of the Women’s Tennis Association. The Gloucester Hotel in London, on the eve of Wimbledon 1973, was the venue for the first coming together of women players under a single banner, rather than being divided by competing tours. were not entirely relegated to WTA, a salute to 15 inspirational

Although political pointscoring and tournament bans were not entirely relegated to the past, the WTA Tour thrived, almost from its inception, as a showcase for tennis as the richest, most global female sport.

On the 50th anniversary of the WTA, a salute to 15 inspirational women (if only we had the space for 50!)

Billie Jean King

Three volumes of autobiography give a sense of the several tumultuous lifetimes Billie Jean King has packed into her 80 years. It’s like reading the life stories of three different people.

All In

In her riveting 2021 memoir , the grand dame of tennis unspools a cinematic, thrilling, difficult, exhausting, enriching life. So much of her personal story doubles as the history of women’s tennis.

The first female athlete to earn