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Names on shirts & stop moaning about long seasons - King's vision for tennis

Related Topics: Emma Raducanu, Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King turns 81 next week, but does not want tennis targeted at people like her.

Instead, she wants to see names and numbers on the back of shirts and a simplified scoring system to entice the young.

And even though the winner of 39 Grand Slam titles is conflicted by the WTA's move into Saudi Arabia, she thinks a female world number one from the Middle East "could influence in a huge way".

In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Sport in Malaga to mark the start of the women's team competition which bears her name, the Billie Jean King Cup, she also had strong words for players who complain about the length of the season before signing up for lucrative exhibition events.