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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, [4] which King won in three sets.
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22 wrz 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 wrz 2017 · The so-called “battle of the sexes” of Sept. 20, 1973, which pitted Bobby Riggs against Billie Jean King, was over in three straight sets and just a little more than two hours.
Promoters dubbed the match the “Battle of the Sexes,” and gave it a primetime television audience. 50 million people in the United States and an estimated 90 million people worldwide tuned in on September 20, 1973 to watch King versus Riggs in the Houston Astrodome.
14 wrz 2023 · King, the face for progress in women’s sports, was initially offered Court’s place in Riggs’ exhibition, but had declined. After Court’s defeat in what was now called “The Mother’s Day Massacre,” King concluded she would have to take on Riggs.
20 wrz 2011 · On Sept. 20, 1973, before a crowd of more than 30,000 at the Houston Astrodome, female tennis star Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.”
