Billie Jean King

In an already dire month for television (unless you’re a sports fan) I sit down to watch Bypassed (RTÉ One, Tuesday) and think with creeping despair, (...)

Former Ireland and Lions rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll has joined the sports division of New York-based global advisory firm Teneo Holdings as a seni(...)

It seems odd, in this era of gender fluidity, that we are headed toward the most stark X versus Y battle since Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Donal(...)

When Cork’s Ashling Thompson opened up back in 2014 and spoke so powerfully about her battle with depression, what was so striking was her view of the(...)

Lexi Thompson and Jordan Spieth represented the United States as teenagers in a mixed fourball match at the 2008 Junior Ryder Cup. As Spieth remembere(...)

At the risk of getting a cross-court backhand to the smacker it is tempting to suggest to Sarah Shephard that she should be grateful to Raymond Moore (...)

It’s a tough call to figure out which place is more benighted: Hollywood or Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was pulling ahead with all its beheadings and i(...)

Should Serena Williams complete a calendar Grand Slam in the US Open, which begins today, consideration as the greatest player in the history of women(...)

“Hopefully, one day people won’t look at gender when they hire a coach,” Martina Navratilova, all-round tennis legend and coach of Poland’s Agnieszka (...)

Tributes have poured in for the former British women’s number one tennis player Elena Baltacha who has died of liver cancer at the age of 30.The spor(...)