Billie Jean King’s Global Revenge Tour: How One Backhand Smacked Patriarchy from Paris to Riyadh
BILLIE JEAN KING, OR HOW ONE WOMAN MADE THE WORLD PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT EQUAL PAY FOR AN AFTERNOON By Our Correspondent in the Cheap Seats PARIS—In the city that once guillotined its aristocrats for sport, a bronze statue of Billie Jean King now stands on the hallowed clay of Roland-Garros, racket frozen mid-backhand as…