A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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