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By Joel Drucker
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]This September marks the golden anniversary of one of the most incredible stories in tennis history: the birth of the women’s professional tennis tour, that pivotal autumn of 1970 when World Tennis magazine founder-publisher Gladys Heldman and nine gutsy female tennis players kicked off the Virginia Slims Circuit—the series of tournaments that in less than three years led to the creation of the WTA.