By Shraishth Jain
Sportskeeda

She won a total of 12 Grand Slam Singles titles, including six Wimbledon crowns, along with 16 Grand Slams in women’s doubles and a further 11 in mixed doubles.

Yet, Billie Jean King was much more than a tennis champion. She is easily one of the most influential personalities in the history of the sport as she showed the world that a female athlete can survive pressure-filled situations as she became a global symbol of gender equality.

King, with the singular force of her presence, created a tennis boom in the United States as well as the entire globe and became the face of the sport.

The complex at Flushing Meadows in New York, where the US Open is held annually, is named after King in honor of her contributions to tennis, sport and the change she brought to American society.

“I aspire do for wrestling, what Billie Jean King did for tennis,” said Adeline Gray after she led her Revanta Mumbai Garuda side to victory against the Mangalyatan University Dilli Veer.

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