The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie ...

Billie Jean King held the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis for years, and now she'll be No. 1 again, this time as the first ...

Billie Jean King will become the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Reps.

Alfie Hewett suffered heartbreak when he was beaten by Japan’s Tokito Oda in a pulsating gold-medal match of the men’s ...

Tennis legend and activist Billie Jean King will once again make history by becoming the first female athlete to ever receive the Congressional Gold Medal.

ROME — Sure he’s got the biggest and most prestigious trophies. Jannik Sinner, the freshly-crowned U.S. Open champion , ...

The tennis Hall of Famer and activist from Long Beach, who had already been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 ...

King, who was a major advocate for the passage of Title IX in the 1970s, will be the first solo female athlete to receive the award. The measure still needs to be signed by President Joe Biden in ...

South African duo Lucas Sithole and Donald Ramphadi secured Africa's first wheelchair tennis medal after clinching bronze in ...

Noteworthy moments included Iraq’s Najlah Imad Al Dayyeni securing the country’s first-ever Paralympic medal in Para-table tennis: a gold. Japan’s Natsuki Wada achieved a historic first by ...

Just seconds earlier, the Italian duo had made history, defeating Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider to claim their nation’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in tennis. “We were playing good ...