The 'Houston 9' and the Birth of Women's Professional Tennis

We will forever be grateful to the gang at tennis.com for foregoing a BuzzFeed-style Top 50 list to celebrate the half-century mark of Tennis magazine. Instead, every Thursday across this entire year, they are going in-depth to revisit a seminal event intersecting with their publication’s 1965-2015 history. This week’s article is both an ace down the middle and a resonant read post-Patricia Arquette’s fiery Best Actress acceptance speech.