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 ...
Billie Jean King was everywhere in 2024. She kicked off the year in Toronto, attending the inaugural Professional Women’s Hockey League game -- a personal passion project years in the making. King ...
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 ...
Billie Jean King, with her distinctive dark hair ... Her legendary “Battle of the Sexes” victory in 1973 against Bobby Riggs, a former men’s world No. 1 player, had more than 90 million ...
a private tennis training company. 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 ...
Jackson Lee/GC Images via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the U.S. Open kicks off this week, legendary tennis star Billie Jean King is taking a look back at how Jackson Lee/GC Images via Getty Images ...
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.
On Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, Billie Jean King and her wife, Ilana Kloss, will step into a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III, for a ride like no other. With 50 million people across the globe tuning in ...