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The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide.
- May 13, 1973
3 mag 2024 · Battle of the Sexes, exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs that took place on September 20, 1973, inside the Astrodome in Houston. The match was something of a spectacle as the in-her-prime King defeated the 55-year-old Riggs in three straight sets, but the event nevertheless was a significant moment in the ...
- Adam Augustyn
Billie Jean beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3, and earned the winner-take-all prize of $100,000. The Battle of the Sexes tennis match was about more than simply defeating Riggs. She felt incredible pressure to win because, as she said afterward, “I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn’t win that match.
20 set 2013 · Holidays. ‘Battle of the Sexes’: When Billie Beat Bobby. Billie Jean King’s straight-set victory over self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs reverberated far beyond the...
- Jesse Greenspan
31 ago 2020 · 113K views 3 years ago. Here's the complete special intersexual matchup between creator Bobby Riggs and competitor Billie Jean King. John Newcombe, Dennis Ralston, Rafer Johnson, Cliff Robertson ...
20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the 'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match - YouTube. 194,677 views. 938. Bobby Riggs was a leading tennis...
22 set 2017 · September 22, 2017. Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) right before the famous match in Battle of the Sexes . Fox Searchlight. “I underestimated you”...
