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 latter illustrates the simultaneously real and surreal 1973 matchup known as the “Battle of the Sexes” between tennis Hall of Famers Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. September 20 marks ...

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 famed 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match.

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 ... she humbled Bobby Riggs. Let's get that match out of the way. Riggs, a 1939 Wimbledon champion turned hustler, had already massacred Court on Mother's Day 1973. So King, who ...

Bobby Riggs during the “Battle of the Sexes” in 1973. Focus on Sport via Getty Images Bobby is most famously remembered for losing to Billie Jean King in the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes.” ...

Bobby Riggs also became famous for his famous battle against Billie Jean King. In 1973, at the age of 55, he returned to the game to challenge two of the best tennis players of the time ...

as “the grandson of former world champion Bobby Riggs,” known for his famous “Battle of the Sexes” against fellow legend Billie Jean King in 1973. According to a criminal complaint ...

Bobby Riggs, won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1939 and the U.S. Open again in 1941. He is best known for the “Battle of the Sexes” against Billie Jean King on Sept. 20, 1973, at the Houston ...

She quickly got into the car marked “Grand Marshal,” a1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III, and sat beside her wife, Ilana Kloss, as ...