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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, Billie Jean King speaks to members of the media prior to a World Team Tennis exhibition in Las Vegas. Baby boomer and tennis great King had some good things to say about millennials in a speech to Northwestern University graduates. King on Friday, June 16, 2017, told the graduates they are &quot;the best generation so far&quot; when it comes to inclusion. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)

Billie Jean King praises Northwestern grads on inclusion

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Billie Jean King to speak Friday at Northwestern University

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Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates a point against Santiago Giraldo of Colombia during their men's singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday, June 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Wimbledon 2014: Roger Federer, usual suspects ready for Week 2 on men’s side

By Dennis Passa - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013, file photo, Billie Jean King reflects about her match against Bobby Riggs in 1973 as she stands in front of a display at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. King watched the gold-medal hockey game won by Canada, greeted U.S. athletes and met with a Russian gay teenager in her whirlwind three days at the Sochi Olympics. She'd like the IOC to add sexual orientation to its charter and consider the issue when deciding host countries for future Olympics. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Billie Jean King: On Sochi Olympics, gay rights

By MELISSA MURPHY - Associated Press

Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins waits to come into the game during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Los Angeles. The Nets won 108-102. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Support continues for Jason Collins, who just wants to focus on basketball

By Bernie Wilson - Associated Press

Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins talks with reporters during practice on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Collins became the first openly gay active athlete in North America's four major professional sports Sunday, Feb. 23, signing a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Collins gets positive feedback upon return to NBA

By BERNIE WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013, file photo, Billie Jean King reflects about her match against Bobby Riggs in 1973 as she stands in front of a display at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. King, who couldn't attend the opening of the Sochi Olympic Games because of her mother's death, will attend the closing ceremony with American speed skaters Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden on Feb. 23 as part of President Barack Obama's official U.S. delegation. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Billie Jean King to attend Sochi closing ceremony

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2006 file photo, Billie Jean King stands with her mother, Betty Moffitt, center, and girlfriend Ilana Kloss, left, during the dedication ceremony for the USTA National Tennis Center, re-named in King's honor, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Moffitt, the mother of Billie Jean King and former major league pitcher Randy Moffitt, has died in Prescott, Ariz. She was 91. King's publicist says she died Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at home with her children by her side. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Betty Moffitt, Billie Jean King’s mother, dies at 91

By Melissa Murphy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2006 file photo, Billie Jean King stands with her mother, Betty Moffitt, center, and girlfriend Ilana Kloss, left, during the dedication ceremony for the USTA National Tennis Center, re-named in King's honor, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Moffitt, the mother of Billie Jean King and former major league pitcher Randy Moffitt, has died in Prescott, Ariz. She was 91. King's publicist says she died Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at home with her children by her side. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Billie Jean King’s mother, Betty Moffitt, dies

By MELISSA MURPHY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2007, file photo, tennis champion Billie Jean King is introduced during a town hall conversation hosted by the group Women for Hillary in New York. King will not attend Friday's opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia because her mother is ill. King, chosen in December to help lead the U.S. delegation to the Sochi Games, has been outspoken in her opposition to Russia's anti-gay law and had planned to attend ice hockey and figure skating events and meet U.S. athletes during her three-day visit to the games. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Billie Jean King won’t attend Sochi opening

By MELISSA MURPHY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2009 file photo, tennis great Billie Jean King reacts as she enters the East Room of the White House in Washington, for a ceremony where President Barack Obama awarded her a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. King believes standing up to discrimination is the best way to combat it. She will help lead the U.S. delegation in the opening ceremonies at the Sochi Olympics in Russia, which recently passed an anti-gay law. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Billie Jean King won’t attend Sochi Olympics opening ceremony

By Melissa Murphy - Associated Press

Brian Boitano of Sunnyvale, Calif., who won the men?s Olympic figure skating competition shows off his gold medal, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1988, Calgary, Canada. Boitano was the first American to capture the gold at the XV Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Jack Smith)

Brian Boitano comes out as gay after being named to Sochi Olympics delegation

By Nancy Armour - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2006, file photo, the United States' Caitlin Cahow (8) upends Germany's Sara Seiler during the first period of a 2006 Winter Olympics ice hockey match in Turin, Italy. Cahow will join Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns at the closing ceremony delegation of the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Obama mocks Putin, picks gay athletes for Sochi delegation

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

King latest celebrity owner of bowling team

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Billie Jean King takes USTA’s case to Congress

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

King, original 9 reunite to honor women’s tennis

By PETE IACOBELLI - Associated Press

Family Circle names court after King

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Venus shares lesson learned from a legend

By Paulina Berkovich - The Washington Times

Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Associated Press