notjust long beach — in the world. i actually, i don't know much about billie jean as a player.efore i was born — i hope she doesn't mind me saying that! we forget what a great tennis player she was. she's aggressive, she goes after what she wants, you know, she had a beautiful backhand, she was a serve and volleyer. only five foot four but speedy as can be. she was a great athlete and she could move, she could hit the shots, she was able to analyse, she was able to really commit herself and focus and analyse a match. an attitude in a good way — that confidence, that belief, that, you know, that kind of swagger that "i can get thisjob done" and that carried over into life. she was a natural leader. people believed in her. she was obviously a fantastic player — i mean, one of the best of all time — but it's what she's done away from the court that's been even more impressive. you changed the whole face of women's tennis and, in some ways, women's sport, and everyone looks at tennis now as sort of a blueprint of how — how you can make things happen, and that — that was driven by y