.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master will come to be the very first personal girls's professional athlete to become rewarded the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania as well as Mikie Sherrill of New Shirt declared Tuesday that their bipartisan laws had passed our home of Representatives and will be actually sent out to President Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to recognize King, the ping pong Hall of Famer and protestor, had actually actually passed with one voice in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, said in a claim that Master's "life-time of proposal as well as hard work transformed the garden for ladies as well as females on the courtroom, in the classroom, and also the office." The expense was actually introduced in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of Master's success over Bobby Riggs in the "Fight of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched ping pong suit of perpetuity. The award, awarded through Our lawmakers for distinguished accomplishments as well as payments to culture, has actually previously been actually offered to sportsmens, including pitcher Jackie Robinson and also Roberto Clemente and also golf players Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and also Arnold Palmer.King had actually actually been actually rewarded the Presidential Award of Liberty in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican, states she possesses "broken barricades, led uncharted paths, and motivated many folks to stand up happily along with courage and conviction in the fight for what corrects.".