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A Long Way Baby: Behind the Scenes in Women’s Pro Tennis

Our third book installment during Women’s History Month is another professional tennis “Year in the Life” account. Grace Lichtenstein’s offering, A Long Way, Baby: Behind the Scenes in Women’s Pro Tennis, focuses on 1973. It had been a scant three years since the “Original Nine” signed the $1 professional contracts which spawned the tour sponsored by Virginia Slims. Women’s professional tennis was in its formative stages. It was also the year that Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs played their landmark “Battle of the Sexes” exhibition match in the Astrodome.