Wilson and Billie Jean King have partnered to create three exclusive products that celebrate the new film “Battle of the Sexes”, a biographical sports drama which tells the amazing story of the historic 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men’s-champ Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell).
The Billie Jean King 1.0 racquet design was created by the tennis great herself on the Wilson Custom Racquet Shop. The motivation for the design goes back to when Billie Jean, at the age of 11, saved up enough money to buy her very first Wilson tennis racquet which she loved so much that she slept with it every night.