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\u201cGive Me the Ball,\u201d which premieres Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, might be the quintessential Billie Jean King documentary to date.<\/p>\n
Directors Liz Garbus<\/a> and Elizabeth Wolff<\/a> tell King\u2019s struggles and victories through candid interviews and archival footage, celebrating King, who fought to make an impact and change not just tennis, but culture.<\/p>\n Ahead of its Sundance premiere, King, Garbus and Wolff sat down to talk about getting unlimited access to deliver the ultimate Billie Jean King story.<\/p>\n The documentary is an ESPN 30 for 30 doc with a premiere date set to be announced later this year. \u201cGive Me the Ball\u201d is by Ridley Scott Associates<\/a> and Story Syndicate<\/a>, in association with Elton John\u2019s Rocket Sports.<\/p>\n Billie, through various ways, your story has been told many times,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tennis icon and legend Billie Jean King has had documentaries, articles and even a movie, \u201cBattle of the Sexes,\u201d tell her story. \u201cGive Me the Ball,\u201d which premieres Monday at the Sundance Film Festival, might be the quintessential Billie Jean King documentary to date. Directors Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff tell King\u2019s struggles and victories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2252008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Liz-Garbus-and-Elizabeth-Wolff-on-Why-Billie-Jean-Kings.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252010,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252008\/revisions\/2252010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}