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3 days ago · A Match To Remember Forever. Tennis fans have tuned into the U.S. Open this summer to watch the best players in the world today compete, but have also been reminded of a seminal moment in sports history. 50 years ago, female tennis star Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a landmark match whose impact is still being celebrated.
5 days ago · The “Battle of the Sexes” match in 1973, between Billie Jean King and then-retired Bobby Riggs, has since been mythologized as a turning point for women’s sports. If the social allegory of ...
2 days ago · Bring It On! Trivia Quiz. The ultimate battle of the sexes! 20 multiple choice questions (alternating between male and female oriented) to settle the score. So sit down with a member of the opposite sex and have a good time. A multiple-choice quiz by Aznboy .
5 days ago · CONNORS TURNS BACK NAVRATILOVA IN BATTLE OF SEXES MARTINA COMMITS EIGHT DOUBLE-FAULTS IN PRESSURE-FILLED VEGAS DUEL. By Staff. Sep 26, 1992. Jimmy Connors beat Martina Navratilova in a...
3 days ago · Beginning in the 1970s, women's tennis grew as a popular professional sport and provided the occasion for a symbolic "battle of the sexes" between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, which King won. The contest was strictly for show after Riggs bragged he would win, despite his age and lack of fitness.
3 days ago · Take Billie Jean King, whose Battle of the Sexes with Bobby Riggs had been staged in 1973. “Ironically,” says Wilson, “the contestants did not fit the gender norms of the day. A man in the ...
