If Richards is a hero to the LGBT community, she should also be one to players and fans. She made the Open era live up to its name by forcing the game to welcome anyone with the courage to be herself.

Tennis player Renée Richards recently donated her tennis racket, along with a trophy, a dress and a number of other items to the Smithsonian. Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI. Old-school ...

Former tennis player Renée Richards is known as a pioneer among trans athletes and coached Martina Navratilova to two Wimbledon titles. Richards made waves on the professional tennis circuit in the ...

As part of LGBT+ History Month, BBC Sport explores the story of transgender tennis player Renee Richards, who won a legal challenge to play at the 1977 US Open as a woman.

A former male doctor and amateur tennis player, Dr. Richard Raskind was a paradigm of success. He married a model, had a child and cultivated a macho persona, all the time harboring a deep secret.

He returned home and became one of the best 35-and-over tennis players in the country. What changed? "It wasn't that I felt I had to do something about this," Richards says now. "I didn't have a ...

Renée Richards began playing professional tennis in 1976. Prior to the 1976 U.S. Open, Richards, then 42, refused to take a chromosomal test and sued the USTA alleging discrimination by gender.

As part of LGBT+ History Month, BBC Sport explores the story of transgender tennis player Renee Richards, who won a legal challenge to play at the 1977 US Open as a woman.