Sentences with phrase «televised exhibition match»

It was also in 1973 when former Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Bobby Riggs, now 55 years of age, challenged Jean to a televised exhibition match to prove that a retired senior citizen could beat the world's number 1 female player.

Seeing a lucrative opportunity in challenging King to a one - off, winner - take - all, televised exhibition match, Riggs» public performance as a «male chauvinist pig» (putting the «show back into chauvinism») made it difficult, if not impossible, for King to reject Riggs offer without compromising her public persona as a women's rights advocate and a feminist icon.

It's been over 40 years since tennis players Billie Jean King faced Bobby Riggs in a nationally televised exhibition match, the build up and conclusion of which remains as astounding to this very day.