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Nov 16, 2009 · Bobby Riggs, a former tennis champion, challenged Margaret Court, a leading women’s player, to a $10,000 match on Mother’s Day. Court lost the match, but Riggs later faced Billie Jean King in a rematch that boosted women’s rights.
Riggs first challenged Billie Jean King, but when she declined, Margaret Court stepped in, accepting the guarantee of $20,000 for the match, more than she had earned for winning both the 1973 Australian and French Open women's singles titles.
May 13, 2021 · But King’s biggest rival, Margaret Court, accepted Riggs’ offer. Court was guaranteed $5,000 and another $5,000 if she won.
May 14, 2023 · Bobby Riggs, the 55-year-old former world tennis champion, moves to the net to return a Margaret Court shot in their $10,000 match at Ramona, Calif., May 13, 1973. He won the match easily...
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May 3, 2024 · After the retired Riggs soundly defeated Court, the top-ranked women’s singles player at the time, in straight sets (6–2, 6–1) on May 13, 1973 (in what became known as the “Mother’s Day Massacre”), he challenged King to face him in a $100,000 winner-take-all match, which she accepted.
Aug 21, 2005 · With her husband and infant son by her side, Margaret would walk onto a court surrounded by 3,200 fans in makeshift bleachers, impose her V-8 power strokes on Bobby, and exit this lizard's...
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