Billie Jean King Cup

🔥The teams & leagues are here    We have an epic speaker line-up forming for SportsPro Live this year. Check out which teams and leagues you'll be hearing from, 29-30th April. 👇    💥 Kerstin Lutz | CEO | Billie Jean King Cup  💥 Paulius Motiejunas | CEO | Euroleague Basketball 💥 Richard Bunn | Chief Revenue & Content Officer | DP World Tour 🔥 Ben Calveley | CEO | The British & Irish Lions 🔥 Rob Mitchell | Commercial Director | Premier Padel  🔥 Julie Uhrman | CEO | Angel City Football Club 🚀 Dan Ginger | Director of Brand, Marketing & Digital Media | Newcastle United Football Club 🚀 Claire Nelson | Managing Director | Netball Super League  🚀 Juliet Slot | Chief Commercial Officer | Arsenal F.C    ✅ Mark Volante | Director of Creative Content | Liverpool Football Club  ✅ Mark Ashton | CEO | Ipswich Town FC    ➕ more... 🔗 Find out more about attending: https://lnkd.in/efsfrKXF hashtag#SPLIVE25 hashtag#speakers hashtag#teams hashtag#leagues

“When I retired in 2009, she gave me her book with a special message, congratulating me for my career. With so many players joining and leaving the Tour, it was such an honour that Billie even knew who I was, and followed my tennis." Ahead of hosting one of April's #BJKCup Qualifiers events, Japan captain Ai Sugiyama had a special visitor stop by the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/enkDGTi2 #BillieJeanKing

A total of 84 players have been nominated to represent the 18 nations in next month's Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Qualifiers 👇

Accelerating action together 💪   Thanks to Gainbridge, #BJKCup champions have received prize money equivalent to their male counterparts in the Davis Cup for three years and counting!   #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

Flexing biceps and blazing trails all over the globe since 1963 💪 Happy International Women's Day from the World Cup of Tennis and our partners Gainbridge, E.L.F. BEAUTY, and Microsoft Copilot! #BJKCup #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction #womenssports

Bright lights, six cities 🔆 The Road to the #BJKCup Finals begins at next month's Qualifiers!

Paving the way for girls in sports 👣 Thirteen years after this photo was taken, Billie Jean King became the first sportswoman to earn over $100,000 in prize money in a single season. Today, on National Girls & Women in Sports Day, we celebrate the achievements of female athletes in the US and around the world 🩵 #NGWSD2025

My first Sports Business Journal cover story is a look at the partnership of Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss, whose impact touches multiple generations of sports leaders, and across all lines. These days, King and Kloss have their heads downs and hands in as many buckets as ever, through their minority stakes in the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Sparks and Angel City Football Club; leadership roles stewarding the PWHL and Billie Jean King Cup; and, at the center of it all, their sports consulting/marketing/investment firm Billie Jean King Enterprises. In this week's magazine, we — with the help of a village of folks that have worked with, for and around King and Kloss over the decades — examine: 🚀 What continues to drive King and Kloss: https://lnkd.in/e8Pw9_jB 🏦 The continued impact of the 50+-year-old Women's Sports Foundation: https://lnkd.in/eDkgQwvF 🌠 The long trail of King and Kloss' women's sports legacy: https://lnkd.in/edK2s5E3 💼 King's quick study in the sports business: https://lnkd.in/eznRngb6 ⌛A timeline of King's achievements (h/t Emma Grace Jimenez, David Broughton): https://lnkd.in/eu7-nwvE

The 2025 #BJKCup Qualifiers are set! 🔒 Six group winners will join defending champions Italy and host nation China in the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals in Shenzhen.

A new era beckons for the women’s World Cup of Tennis 〽️ From 2025 to 2027, the #BJKCup by Gainbridge Finals will be hosted in Shenzhen, China!