Listen to Podcast of the Billie Jean King interview
Billie Jean King comes to Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego to support and inspire young athletes at the World TeamTennis (WTT) Junior Nationals Championship in San Diego every year. Billie Jean King and Larry King created this organization in the early 1970s to create gender equity in a tennis competition. The league been running for 32 consecutive years all over the United States. There are leagues all over the United States for different ages and abilites including recreational leagues, corporate leagues, high school and college leagues.
2013’s winning Junior National team was the Wisconsin Cheeseheads, defeating the San Diego Barnes Bashers 40-33.
Richard Muscio and Joe Vecchio caught some of the action, and had a 15-minute interview with Billie Jean King. Listen to Billie Jean King interview.
Richard played a small role in tennis history because as a teenager, his job was scrapbooking for Bobby Riggs. Richard compiled eleven scrapbooks that consisted of over 2,500 pages documenting the media frenzy over the “Mother’s Day Massacre” and “The Battle of the Sexes,” historic tennis matches in 1973 between Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court and (later) Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Billie Jean King won her match and became a great voice for women’s liberation. Recently, a documentary, The Battle of the Sexes was released outlining the tennis match that helped turn the the tide for women’s equality.
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