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In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case.The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, [4] which King won in three sets.
A half-century ago, in a match dubbed the “Battle of the Sexes,” women’s tennis champ Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis great Bobby Riggs in straight sets.
Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973. Riggs was famous as a hustler and gambler, [41] [42] when in his 1949 autobiography he wrote that he had made $105,000 ($2,300,000 today) in 1939 by betting in England, on himself, to win all three Wimbledon championships: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles. At the time, most betting was illegal in ...
On September 20 in 1973, Billie Jean King, 29, defeated Bobby Riggs, 55, in the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match. Former no. 1 ranked male tennis player and self-proclaimed chauvinist, Bobby ...
Billie Jean King's victory in the “Battle of the Sexes” was a milestone moment as women pushed for equality on the playing field and beyond. On the 50th anniversary of that match against Bobby ...
Battle of the Sexes (tennis), a 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Geschlechterkampf (Battle of the Sexes – Franz von Stuck to Frida Kahlo), an art exhibition about gender roles; Jordan Mixed Open, a 2019 tri-sanctioned golf tournament that is a more modern-day interpretation of the same ideal.
On Sept. 20, 1973, in their so-called “battle of the sexes,” tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, at the Houston Astrodome. In 1519, Portuguese ...
When Billie Beat Bobby is a 2001 American sports comedy drama television film written and directed by Jane Anderson that details the historic 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs and what led up to it. It aired on ABC on April 16, 2001.