.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master will end up being the very first private girls's professional athlete to become rewarded the Congressional Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and also Mikie Sherrill of New Jacket introduced Tuesday that their bipartisan regulations had actually passed our home of Representatives and also would certainly be actually sent out to Head of state Joe Biden for his signature.The costs to recognize Master, the ping pong Lobby of Famer and protestor, had actually already passed all in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, claimed in a claim that King's "life-time of proposal and effort transformed the landscape for females and women on the courthouse, in the class, and the work environment." The bill was actually launched in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of Master's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "Fight of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched ping pong suit of perpetuity. The medal, rewarded through Congress for notable success and additions to culture, has actually recently been actually provided to sportsmens, consisting of baseball players Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente as well as golfers Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson as well as Arnold Palmer.King had already been actually awarded the Governmental Medal of Liberty in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, says she possesses "faulty barricades, led uncharted courses, as well as encouraged a great number of people to stand happily with guts as well as principle in the defend what corrects.".