His grandfather, Bobby Riggs, famously challenged and lost to Billie Jean King in the "Battle of the Sexes" match in 1973, a landmark event in women's sports. Bobby Riggs is a 3-time Grand Slam ...

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 ... 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 Sexes.

Riggs is the grandson of Bobby Riggs, the former men's tennis champion best known for losing against women's tennis great Billie Jean King in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match. According to the ...

Billie Jean King crushed Bobby Riggs in straight sets (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) in 1973's "Battle of the Sexes." Yet of all her victories, the one that is remembered most is her beating a 55-year-old man.

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 ...

Billie Jean King is widely known for taking down Bobby Riggs in the historic and heavily-hyped tennis match in 1973, which was coined the "Battle of the Sexes." By defeating the Grand Slam ...

Billie Jean King has been awarded the Congressional ... which cemented her legacy as a champion of women's rights. That same year, King defeated Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes" match ...

Former tennis champion and gender equality advocate Billie Jean King was named grand marshal ... match against former men’s ...

Billie Jean King darts across a makeshift stage at the ... to make 100k during a professional competition, defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” a.k.a. the most famous tennis ...

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 ...