After a long time we have come with the best performance article in tennis and today we have a big one for you all and we will be talking about one of the greatest female tennis players of all time and someone who has been a role model for a lot of the young tennis players that play today. She is a pioneer and she is Billie Jean King. She is one of the greatest that America has ever seen along with Serena Williams. She has won 12 singles Grand Slam titles in her career about which we will talk about below.
Billie Jean King turned pro in 1968 and she played for 22 years till 1990 and she cemented her legacy as the best of her generation. Winning 12 Grand Slam titles during that time was so hard and she has won all the 4 Grand Slam titles once. She has a career win-loss record of 695 wins and 155 losses which gives her a win % of 81.76. Her career prize money was $1,966,467. She has also won 15 Doubles Grand Slam titles which takes her total to 27. Let’s look at her Top 5 Best Performances.
1968 Australian Open Final vs Margaret Court
The first performance in this list is the 1968 final against one of the other all time greats in Margaret Court in her home Slam and for Billie Jean King to go there and be so dominant was a statement that she was here to rule over the tennis World. She absolutely decimated her opponent in 2 sets and she won both the sets 6-1 and 6-2 in under an hour and the tennis World took notice of this player and she would do great things in the future.
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1971 US Open Final vs Rosemary Casals
The second performance in this list is the US Open Final in 1971 and by that time Billie Jean King had established herself as one of the best and any opponent who faced her was wary of her. And in this final it was a battle of 2 Americans who gave it their all in 2 sets of amazing tennis but Billie Jean King was the better woman on the day winning the first set 6-4 and then the second set went to a tie break which King won as well and as a result won the US Open that year. It was a show of determination.
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1975 Wimbledon Final vs Chris Evert
In the 1975 Wimbledon Final it was the battle of the 2 best American tennis players at that time and it was a battle royale for the title and both id these incredible tennis players were ready to give it their all but in the first set of the match Billie Jean King absolutely demolished Chris Evert by 6-0 and won the set without losing a game but in the second set it was more competitive but in the end Billie Jean King had too much on that day and she won the second set 7-5 and thus won the Wimbledon title.
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1972 French Open Final vs Evonne Goolagong
This is the one that completed the set of 4 Grand Slam titles for Billie Jean King and in this match she was dominant like most of her wins at Grand Slams. She was facing a great Evonne Goolagong and she was at her best yet again and she won the match in 2 sets. She won the first set 6-3 and then repeated her performance in the second set as well which she won 6-3 as well. She had established herself as one of the all time greats at this point. This was a special performance.
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1974 US Open Final vs Evonne Goolagong
The 5th performance on this list is perhaps her most competitive Grand Slam final and here Billie Jean King had to work hard to pick up the win as it was a 3 set thriller and the fans were loving it. Billie Jean King lost the first set of this batch 3-6 and for the first time she was under pressure but she rose to the occasion and won the second set by 6-3 herself and it went to the deciding 3rd set and here Billie Jean King had a little more in the tank as she won the set 7-5 and the US Open title. It was an incredible match.
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