Rosie Casals

Rosie Casals is an American former professional tennis player, born on 16 September 1948, whose career spanned more than two decades and brought her more than 90 titles. She was a central figure in the changes in women's tennis during the 1960s and 1970s. By sixteen she was the top junior and women's player in Northern California, and with her doubles partner Billie Jean King she won the U.S. hard court and indoor tournaments in 1966. In 1967 the pair took the doubles crown at Wimbledon. Casals played World Team Tennis in the 1970s and early 1980s and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1996.