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.

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 ...

This Halloween, chances are you saw a couple dressed as the famous Battle of the Sexes stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. The Battle of the Sexes film recently came out in September ...

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 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 ...

Legendary tennis great and activist Billie ... Bobby Riggs in September 1973. "It changed the hearts and minds of people. It was about social change, and I think it did it,” said King.

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 ...

The world has a lot to thank Billie Jean King for. After fellow tennis player Bobby Riggs flew chauvinist jokes her way for months on end, King rose to the challenge and took to the court to ...

Billie Jean King – queen of the ’60s and ’70s ... She picks a song written specially for the film about her 1973 match against Bobby Riggs Billie Jean’s fifth track is If I Dare, sung ...

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 ...