Tennis historian Joel Drucker says the single biggest change since the dawn of lawn tennis was the professionalization of the ...

More than 1,000 women will compete in 10 sports including soccer, volleyball, skateboarding and surfing. Super Girl is a ...

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

“You’ve come a long way, baby,” the 1968 slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes, acknowledged that great strides had been made for women, beginning with the right to vote over 50 years earlier. Almost ...

You’ve come a long way, baby,” the 1968 slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes, acknowledged that strides had been made for women, beginning with the right to vote over 50 years earlier.

During her Tennis365 interview Evert says she missed multiple Grand Slam events as she appeared on the Virginia Slims Circuit during the early 1970s. This took place before the WTA was formed and ...

They became friends and remained in touch. Ride went to Stanford to study physics; O’Shaughnessy joined the first-ever professional women’s tennis circuit, the Virginia Slims.

Virginia Slims Circuit Heldman, with the assistance of Philip Morris, put up $5,000 to allow the "Original 9" to sign token $1 contracts to set up their own tour of eight tournaments — sponsored ...

In 1987, 18-year-old Graf ended Navratilova's five-year reign as the year-end World No. 1. She secured the top spot ahead of the Virginia Slims Championships, now known as the WTA Finals. The ...

When you think of just how far they have come, perhaps you may go back to about the time the slogan for Virginia Slims came out. There was no women’s basketball at West Virginia and the progress was ...

Big Tobacco has long considered women a target market, and their strategies have evolved over the years to exploit gender norms, societal expectations and fashion trends. In the 1920s, ads by ...