King won seven Fed Cups as a player and four as the US team's captain. It was launched in 1963 and the United States are the most successful team in Fed Cup history having won the tournament 18 times. The Fed Cup is women's tennis' premier international team competition. When I see the Fed Cup trophy today I look at the first one and I think about us. "And we did win and it was really special. I love history and I remember saying, 'We have to make it this year, we have to win the very first one, it's historical'. "I remember the first Federation Cup in 1963," King added.
The inaugural 12-team Billie Jean King Cup Finals will take place in Budapest, Hungary, in April. It is the first time a major global team competition has been named after a woman. It's really an honour and I'm very grateful." "Then my mind always turns to what I want to accomplish - let's get going. I'm still not sure it's true," said King. So far, 56 people have died from coronavirus, and there have been almost 2000 cases as authorities try to prevent the spread of the disease, with significant travel restrictions in place across a number of Chinese cities.She is an advocate for gender equality and in 1973 won the Battle of the Sexes match against Bobby Riggs. The Asian Champions League play-off between Shanghai SIPG and Buriram United of Thailand will take place on Tuesday, but will be played behind closed doors. In domestic sport, the Chinese Super Cup football match between Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai Shenhua on 5 February has been postponed, along with the start of the Chinese Basketball League. That has been postponed with no new host venue announced. Wuhan was also lined up to host the Asia/Oceania qualifiers for the Olympic boxing competition from 3-14 February.
Group B in the third round of the AFC Women's qualification tournament for this summer's Tokyo Olympics from 3-9 February, originally set to take place in Wuhan, the city where coronavirus broke out, has now been moved to Sydney. Instead it will now be played in Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan on the same dates.įootball, boxing and basketball are among the other sports to be affected.
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