2018.07.15 比莉-金 网球女运动员

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Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slams and a total of 20 Wimbledon titles and is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

Born in California in 1943, she was the eldest daughter of Bill and Betty Moffitt. She discovered tennis at the age of ten: at 15 she won in her age bracket at the Southern California championships, and in 1961, she won the women's doubles at Wimbledon with Karen Hantze, the youngest pair to achieve such a victory.

In 1968, when professional competitors were admitted to Grand Slam tournaments, she won Wimbledon for the third time and was paid just £750 while Rod Laver, the Men's champion, took home £2,000. So began her campaign for gender equality, which involved boycotting tournaments and setting up their own professional women's circuit. In 1973, then aged 29, she beat the 55-year-old former tennis champion Bobby Riggs in a match which became known as 'The Battle of the Sexes': it remains the most-watched tennis match ever. That year the US Open awarded the same financial reward to men and women and in 2007 Wimbledon followed suit. Billie Jean also founded the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation in the 1970s.

She married her husband, Larry, in 1965 but by the late 1960s, she had realised that she was gay. She was outed by a former lover who sued her for palimony in 1981, and although she won the case, she lost almost all her commercial endorsements. She has been with her partner, Ilana Kloss, for nearly 40 years and retired from singles matches in 1983 and doubles in 1990. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2009 and has continued to be an ambassador for her sport and for gender equality.



比莉-金赢得了39个大满贯和总共20个温布尔登冠军，被认为是有史以来最伟大的网球运动员之一。

她于1943年出生在加利福尼亚，是比尔和贝蒂-莫菲特的长女。她在10岁时发现了网球：15岁时，她在南加州锦标赛中赢得了她所在年龄段的冠军，1961年，她与凯伦-汉兹一起赢得了温布尔登的女子双打比赛，是取得这种胜利的最年轻的一对。

1968年，当职业选手被允许参加大满贯赛事时，她第三次赢得了温布尔登，但只得到了750英镑的报酬，而男子冠军罗德-拉沃则拿了2000英镑的奖金。于是，她开始了争取性别平等的运动，包括抵制锦标赛和建立自己的职业妇女巡回赛。1973年，当时29岁的她在一场被称为 "性别之战 "的比赛中击败了55岁的前网球冠军鲍比-里格斯：这仍然是有史以来最受关注的网球比赛。那一年，美国网球公开赛对男性和女性给予了同样的经济奖励，2007年温布尔登也效仿。比莉-珍还在20世纪70年代创立了妇女网球协会和妇女体育基金会。

她于1965年与丈夫拉里结婚，但到了60年代末，她已经意识到自己是同性恋。1981年，她被一个前情人揭发，后者起诉她要求支付赡养费，虽然她赢了官司，但她几乎失去了所有的商业代言。她与她的伴侣伊莲娜-克劳斯在一起近40年，并于1983年退出单打比赛，1990年退出双打比赛。她于2009年被奥巴马总统授予自由勋章，并继续成为她的运动和性别平等的大使。