.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master will certainly become the 1st private ladies's professional athlete to be granted the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey revealed Tuesday that their bipartisan regulation had actually passed our home of Reps as well as will be actually sent out to President Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to recognize King, the tennis Lobby of Famer and protestor, had actually actually passed unanimously in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a statement that Master's "lifetime of proposal and hard work changed the garden for females as well as females on the courthouse, in the class, as well as the workplace." The costs was actually introduced in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of Master's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "War of the Sexes," still the most-watched ping pong match of all time. The award, awarded by Congress for prominent success as well as additions to community, has actually previously been actually provided sportsmens, consisting of pitcher Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente as well as golf players Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Arnold Palmer.King had currently been rewarded the Governmental Award of Freedom in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, states she has "damaged obstacles, led undiscovered roads, as well as influenced countless folks to stand up happily along with nerve and principle in the defend what corrects.".