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Tennis “Battle Of The Sexes”
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The famous tennis match nicknamed “The Battle Of The Sexes” is most commonly associated with the 1973 match between 55 year-old male tennis player Bobby Riggs and 29 year-old female tennis player Billie Jean King. Riggs would go out of his way to taunt female tennis players, and issuing a financial challenge for any female to compete against him on the court — which King accepted, obviously.
But even with King winning, marking a huge step for women’s professional sports, the game was mired in controversy both because King was said to have beaten a past-his-prime opponent, and because of allegations that Riggs concocted the event to raise money to pay off gambling debts he owed to rather unsavory folks.
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