By and Photography by Styled by “Money helps women have power,” says Billie Jean King. It’s August, and King has been watching the U.S.
Open from her home on New York’s Upper West Side. A few weeks from now, the event will crown Naomi Osaka its winner and award her $3 million, sending her home with the same cash prize as the tournament’s male winner.
In sports as in the wider world, equal pay is rare. The fact that the U.S. Open has mandated it is due in no small part to King.At 76, King appreciates better than most that ambition requires financing: 50 years ago, she and eight other top-ranked women’s tennis players—dubbed the Original 9—formed their own league to protest staggering gender inequalities across the sport.
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