The world of tennis is this week celebrating the 50th anniversary of Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in the historic "Battle of the Sexes". The exhibition match between King, who was 29 and ...

Billie Jean King crushed Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4 ... So King, who previously had rejected Riggs' advances for a match, accepted his latest challenge. "I thought it would set us back ...

When Billie Jean King beat men’s tennis star Bobby Riggs in a match called “the Battle of the Sexes" 50 years ago this month, her win propelled women’s tennis to new heights — and helped ...

Billie Jean King made ... her high-school-gym debut, King was playing before a worldwide audience in the Astrodome, where she changed history again by beating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the ...

Former tennis champion and gender equality advocate Billie Jean King was named ... of the Sexes” tennis match against former men’s tennis pro Bobby Riggs, who was 55 at the time.

the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) was billed as the BATTLE OF THE SEXES and became ...

(The Hill) – The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King ... victory over Bobby Riggs in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) Billie Jean ... ever showed it.'' King was 29 when she defeated former professional tennis player Bobby Riggs, 55, in the famed ''Battle of the Sexes'' match in 1973, putting gender ...

The world has a lot to thank Billie Jean King for. After fellow tennis player Bobby Riggs flew chauvinist jokes ... He said he loved me. At the match, Bobby was all about the money.

In her episode of Desert Island Discs, tennis great Billie Jean ... which depicted King’s struggle to be taken seriously as a woman in tennis, and her 1973 match against Bobby Riggs, a male ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships and four U.S. Open titles. She was ranked No. 1 in the world five years. She defeated such magnificent players as Martina Navratilova ...