Billie Jean King - Wikipedia
WEBBillie Jean King in 1970. In 1970, Margaret Court won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments and was clearly the World No. 1. King lost to Court three times in the first four months of the year, in Philadelphia, Dallas, and Johannesburg (at the South African Open).
Battle of the Sexes (tennis) - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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, [4] which King won in three sets.
Billie Jean King - National Women's History Museum
WEBIn the early 1970s, King began a secret romantic relationship with another woman. She feared coming out because of her parents’ homophobia and potential harm the news could cause the women’s tennis tour. King was publicly outed as a lesbian in 1981 and immediately lost all her endorsement deals.
Life Story: Billie Jean King - Women & the American Story
WEBThroughout the 1970s, Billie Jean’s career aligned with the women’s liberation movement. In November of 1973 she spoke before a Senate education subcommittee about discrimination of women’s sports and in support of an education equity act.
Battle of the Sexes | History, Participants, & Facts | Britannica
WEBSep 13, 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 …
The True Story Behind Billie Jean King's Victorious “Battle of the ...
WEBSep 22, 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 ...
Billie Jean King - HISTORY
WEBNov 9, 2009 · In 1974, Billie Jean King became the first president of the Women’s Tennis Association. She headed up the first professional women’s tour, the Virginia Slims, in the 1970s.
Billie Jean King Made Sports History at the Battle of the Sexes - Biography
WEBSep 19, 2017 · Fifty years ago, Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs faced off in a tennis match that proved women were capable professional athletes.
The Battle of the Sexes - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
WEBIn 1970, King rebelled when she discovered that the Pacific Southwest Open was going to award the male winner $12,500 and the female winner $1,500. When the promoter refused to narrow the gap, King and eight of the other top women players organized a boycott.
The Battle of the Sexes: Billie Jean King win matters 50 years later
WEBOn the evening of Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King, 29, one of the greatest women’s tennis players of that or any era, took on tennis hustler and self-described "male chauvinist pig" Bobby Riggs ...
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