Sentences with phrase «reigning champion of women»
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.
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Led by reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Billie Jean King (Stone), a group of leading women players broke away from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in search of better pay.