BILLIE Jean King said today that the name of Margaret Court Arena should be changed before adding that she would refuse to play on it if she were competing in this year's Australian Open.

The row concerning the name of Melbourne Park's third show court has rumbled on since last summer, when 11-time Australian Open champion Court voiced homophobic views as Australia prepared to vote on same-sex marriage.

Court, who is now a Pentecostal minister, claimed a gay lobby was trying to get into the minds of children and that transgenderism was the work of the devil.