But women’s tennis struggled before the Virginia Slims circuit. “Worst was the prize money inequity and no tournaments to play in and no press exposure at all,” Reid said.

According to “The Virginia Slims Identity Crisis: an inside look at tobacco industry marketing to women,” a study conducted at the Yale School of Medicine's department of psychiatry using de ...

It’s the 50th anniversary of Billie Jean King and eight other women breaking away from the tennis establishment in 1970 and signing a $1 contract to form the Virginia Slims circuit.

The International Tennis Hall of Fame witnessed a piece of history Sunday as the qualifying round of the 2025 Hall of Fame ...

With prize money from Virginia Slims and other sponsors totaling just over $300,000, the 1971 World Tennis Women’s Pro Tour – commonly known as the Virginia Slims Circuit –took in some 19 US cities, ...

Dear Ann Landers: What do you think about Louis Sullivan, U.S. secretary of health and human services, getting unhinged because Philip Morris Inc. sponsors the Virginia Slims tennis tournament?

The Virginia Slims invitational was organized because the women felt that the Pacific Southwest tournament in California was offering an unequal part of its prize money to the fems.

It’s a woman thing, says Virginia Slims. It’s a lung cancer thing, say public health advocates. The Philip Morris cigarette brand, whose feminist spin has long boosted women’s smo… ...

In 1973, the Virginia Slims Circuit became the Women’s Tennis Association, which in 1994 would become the current version of the WTA Tour, and King also faced – and beat – Bobby Riggs in the ...

WFTV-Ch. 9 gets a thumbs down for its failure to televise last Sunday’s Virginia Slims Championships – the biggest professional women’s tennis tournament outside of the four Grand Slams ...