lorenzo musetti is through to the quarter finals at he beat rising american star ben shelton in three sets shelton appeared to injure his forearm in the decider. later, second seed holger rune takes on britain s ryan peniston. the all england club has announced it s wildcards for wimbledon which starts in just over a week s time. 43 year old venus williams who s won the title 5 times will be included in the draw, as will ukranian elina svitolina who won the wta title in strasbourg last month just seven months after having her first baby. there are also wildcards for 10 british players, including katie boulter, heather watson and liam broady. it s 50 years since the wta was started which changed the face of women s tennis. set up by billiejean king and her doubles partner rosie casals they gathered their fellow players togetherfor a meeting in a london hotel, which has had knock on effects not just in tennis but in all women s sport. casals says that today s crop of players often do
Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon a half-century ago and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how things would go that day
A half-century later, Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how things would go that day. Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the meeting on June 21, 1973, at the Gloucester Hotel — about a mile south of Hyde Park in the heart of the British capital — where King and nearly 60 other players agreed to form what today is known as the Women’s Tennis Association or WTA. A reunion at that same hotel on June 30 is planned, with King, a twice-inducted member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and an equal rights advocate, along with a dozen or so other founding members of the WTA, such as Rosie Casals, Betty Stöve, Françoise Dürr and Ingrid Löfdahl-Bentzer.
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