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tournaments and worked as a tennis instructor in order to help herself financially (“Filmmaker Essay: On Billie Jean King”). In 1965, Billie Jean married Larry King, who was a law student at the time (“Billie Jean King Biography”). Billie Jean decided that she needed to step up her practice schedule and began a complete training plan that would work on strengthening her fundamentals, which would lead to her winning many titles (“Billie Jean King Biography”). This training plan and hard work would change her life forever. Billie Jean King was the first to do many things in women’s tennis, which made her the best tennis player and most prominent activist of her time. According to tennisfame.com, in 1966, she won her first major singles championship at Wimbledon, and she successfully defended that title for two years in a row. Billie Jean became the first female athlete to win over $100,000 in one year (“Billie Jean King”). For a total of 17 years, Billie Jean King was ranked in the top ten in the world, and during that time, she was ranked number one in the world five times (“Billie Jean King”). Both of those accomplishments are some that very few could achieve during her time. She won 39 grand slam titles, putting her at third on the all-time list, winning 20 of her titles at Wimbledon (“Billie Jean King”). In 1973, Billie Jean King was Sports Illustrated “Sports Person of the Year,” and she was the first woman to be awarded this title (“Filmmaker Essay: On Billie Jean…

of her intense games. Her powerful serves can fly across the court at speeds of up to 128 miles per hour. Though she differs in delivery speed, Venus is a baseline player as well but contrasting to her sister, she holds the record for the fastest serve ever delivered by a woman, at a shocking 130 miles per hour (Advarsity Sports). The expert player is comfortable all around the court, unlike her sibling who is mainly comfortable on the baseline. Another difference between the two is that Venus…

Tilting can be defined as angry or frustrated to the degree that it's badly affecting your performance, and you're probably blaming it on everyone but yourself (Kollar 2016). Tilting can be as severe as a losing streak for an NFL team, an NHL team, or an NBA team. Esports pro teams have hired psychologists to help with players getting tilted in between games. One of the most iconic moments for a psychologist in esports was getting a team with semi-finals tilt to win their first championship…

the same, we were unstoppable. As the season went on we were drawing more attention to our school to the point where local critics were for us for once. You could say the attention was getting to us because we weren’t use to having a winning season. It was time for playoffs and our reputation was through the roof. I for one was having the best time of my life. The playoffs went by fast and the wins kept coming. At this point the championship game was just around corner something my school…

In the sports of women’s professional tennis and U.S. college football, athletes can often times be constructed as a body with a talent in athleticism, and at the same time be neglected in the acknowledgment of their citizenship through discourses, language, and institutional networks. In the sport of U.S. college football the athlete that is constituted by the network of institutions discourses, and languages as an overworked and underpaid laborer who is denied their ability to exercise their…

Sieffert can carry this squad but only to a certain degree, if another player can be the Robin to Collin’s Batman, then Gorgui will find themselves in the championship game. On the other side of the final Hagianna’s takes on The Bad, The Ugly, and The Ginger. Ugly has the advantage in terms of fundamentals, but no team in the league can match the athleticism and raw talent of Hagianna’s and this will lead Hagianna’s to the championship game. The Championship come down to Hagianna’s taking on…

On September 20th, 1973 Women’s tennis champion Billie Jean King took on Men’s tennis champion Bobby Riggs in Houston, Texas in a winner take all $100,000 tennis match. The match was nationally televised and was named the “Battle of the Sexes”. King would defeat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, and become the first women to defeat a man in any sport. After the match, it is reported that Riggs “was devastated and isolated himself in his hotel room for four hours.” The match had an estimated 90 million…

American Tennis Association. In 1950, Gibson played her first professional tennis match in Queens, New York. In her first round, she defeated Barbara Knapp, a white female player but lost to Louise Brough, another white female player in her second match. Throughout both rounds, racial slurs spewed from racist spectators, who for the first time saw an African-American person playing the game in a non-recreational setting (“Racism and Black Tennis”). Despite the slurs and insults, Althea Gibson…

She lost in the first round of qualifying to Anne Miller, winning just two games.Williams did not play a tournament in 1996.She finished 1997 ranked world No. 99. Williams' first tournament of the 2013 season was in Brisbane, where she won the title without dropping a set.At the 2013 US Open, Williams began as the top seed and defending champion. She reached the final—a rematch of the 2012 final against Azarenka—and won in three sets, capturing her 17th Grand Slam singles title. Williams became…

Right now I’m screaming I can’t believe what I’m watching . Final score Royals 9 Oakland 8. This pushes the Royals through to the American League Division Series, to play the Angles. ALDS vs Angles. I’m so nervous watching the next 3 games. But the Royals late inning heroics continued against the Angles. Mike Moustakes won game 1 with the first extra-inning homerun in club history, an 11th inning homerun gave the Royals a win with the final score being 3 to 2 in game 1. So I start to feel a…