.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master will definitely become the very first private ladies's athlete to be granted the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and also Mikie Sherrill of New Jacket declared Tuesday that their bipartisan regulations had passed your home of Reps as well as would certainly be delivered to President Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to recognize Master, the ping pong Hall of Famer and protestor, had currently passed with one voice in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, claimed in a claim that Master's "life time of campaigning for as well as hard work transformed the yard for females and also girls on the courtroom, in the class, as well as the workplace." The expense was presented in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of Master's victory over Bobby Riggs in the "Fight of the Sexes," still the most-watched ping pong match of all time. The medal, rewarded through Congress for distinguished achievements as well as additions to culture, has actually formerly been actually provided athletes, consisting of pitcher Jackie Robinson and also Roberto Clemente and golfers Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson as well as Arnold Palmer.King had actually presently been granted the Presidential Award of Independence in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, says she possesses "busted barricades, led unexplored roads, as well as influenced countless individuals to stand up happily along with tenacity and view in the fight for what is right.".