Niki Pilić, who has died aged 86, was a charismatic Yugoslav tennis star of the 1960s and 1970s who sparked the controversial 1973 Wimbledon players’ boycott. Although he was a top 10 player, ...
A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how ...
Other Facts: She has won 39 Grand Slam championships overall in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, including 12 Grand Slam singles titles. She is the founder and first president of the Women's ...
WIMBLEDON, England -- The woman Martina Navratilova beat in her 1973 Wimbledon debut was back at the All England Club on Monday to watch her daughter's first-round match. Navratilova, all of 47, was ...