Wimbledon Re-Lived: Journey to Equal Prize Money
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
From 1968, when Billie Jean King was paid less than half of what Rod Laver received for winning Wimbledon, to 2007 when the champions finally received the same prize money, this podcast charts a long, extraordinary journey. We hear from BJK herself about the moves she made to get to where we are, from former WTA CEO Larry Scott, who helped take the final steps in the quest for equality, and about the enormous influence of Venus Williams, who stood up repeatedly for what she believed in.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lighten Huat. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.8 | podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Well hello folks and welcome to our second tennis relived Wimbledon 2021 edition. Yesterday we |
| 0:28.9 | covered 1973 and the boycott year on the men's side at Wimbledon. We hope you enjoyed that. And |
| 0:35.2 | now we're back with, well, a number of years, a journey, if you will. You're going to go on a |
| 0:41.2 | journey with us. A journey whose destination is equal prize money, not only at Wimbledon, |
| 0:47.4 | but at the four grand slams because Wimbledon was the final slam to award equal prize money, |
| 0:55.7 | but the penultimate slam to announce and make the decision that it was awarding equal prize money. |
| 1:01.5 | In fact, it was the French Open that was the last slam to capitulate, but of course, the French |
| 1:07.4 | Open coming before Wimbledon in the calendar, they got to do the actual handing over of the check |
| 1:12.5 | before Wimbledon did. It's a very long journey. It's one for which we spoke into some quite excellent |
| 1:18.6 | people, including Billy Jean King. It's one for which, well, we scheduled this whole episode |
| 1:25.5 | around Matt's hair cut, which never happened. Matt comes to us with 1970s hair somewhat appropriately. |
| 1:36.3 | And we'll be staying with 1970s hair for at least two more weeks. Who Wimbledon? |
| 1:42.7 | Even more 1970s. It was going to be a slightly awkward haircut actually because I abandoned this |
| 1:49.4 | hairdresser for another one and hadn't gone back to this one. And now the one I abandoned her |
| 1:55.4 | four clothes down, so I was going back to this one. Oh, you can't go back. But she's been contact |
| 2:00.6 | traced and I'm having to stay away. You're having a nightmare, Matt. Can I introduce you to some |
| 2:06.6 | Putney-based Barbies while you're here? Well, yeah, maybe. I'm a bit scared of Putney-based Barbies. |
| 2:13.7 | Matt is moving into tennis podcast hours. IE My Flat come Sunday. And that is when the daily |
| 2:21.9 | Wimbledon tennis podcast will begin for anybody screaming at your device. But there's been a draw. |
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