Sentences with phrase «female tennis champion»
In 1973, the former male tennis star Bobby Riggs challenged the number one female tennis champion Billie Jean King to a match, to prove which gender was the best.
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There was nothing fair, whatever that means in this case, about the Battle of the Sexes: Riggs was 55 and had retired from the main circuit years ago; the 29 - year - old King was the reigning champion of women's tennis but also saddled with the burden of «justifying» female professional athletics, if not the entire Second Wave of feminism, to the world.
In 1973, Billie Jean King, then the world's number one female tennis player, and Bobby Riggs, a 55 - year - old former champion, competed in an exhibition match dubbed the Battle of the Sexes.
In 2013, The Battle of the Sexes chronicled the events leading up to the landmark tennis match in 1973 between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King — a match that saw the Wimbledon women's champion deliver a smashing blow to to the sexist taunts of retired player Riggs, who declared he could beat any female tennis player on the court.