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This May marks the 40th anniversary of the original Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Bobby Riggs and one of the top female tennis players in the game at the time: Margaret Court. Today, many people are not aware that Riggs played another woman before Billie Jean King, but he did. In 1973, Riggs, a 55-year-old former tennis champion and ...
22 set 2017 · “I underestimated you” were the first words former Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs said to the tennis champion Billie Jean King in 1973 after she defeated him in front of 90 million viewers ...
19 set 2020 · Bobby Riggs was a leading tennis player in the 1940s, and by the time he retired in 1951 had won six Grand Slam titles. Following his retirement he became a ...
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25 ago 2023 · Billie Jean King returns the ball to Bobby Riggs during the first set of their match. Bettmann / Bettmann Archive An inductee in the International Tennis Hall of Fame, King won a total of 39 Grand ...
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19 set 2023 · "Battle of the sexes", c'est l'histoire d'une championne de tennis, Billie Jean King, qui remporte trois titres de Grand Chelem. Engagée dans un combat pour que les femmes soient pleinement ...
20 set 2021 · No tennis match was ever fraught with more symbolism than the September 20, 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” clash between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. As the very name of this one-off event ...
Souvenirs de la confrontation entre Billie Jean King et Bobby Riggs en 1973, exposés à l'Astrodome de Houston.. En tennis, les termes de bataille des sexes ou battle of the sexes en anglais sont des surnoms parfois utilisés pour désigner un match d'exhibition dans lequel une femme et un homme s'affrontent en simple ou, plus rarement, une paire féminine et une paire masculine en double.
