In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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.