Bobby Riggs
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Robert Larimore Riggs was an American tennis champion who was the world No. 1 amateur in 1939 and world No. 1 professional in 1946 and 1947. He played his first professional tennis match on December 2
Riggs c. 1947
Riggs burst into the national consciousness late in the 1930s as a highly-touted amateur.
Riggs in October 1945 at the U.S. Navy training center at Camp Elliott, after spending 20 months overseas giving tennis exhibitions at U.S. Navy bases in the Pacific.
Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in 1973
Margaret Court
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Margaret Court, also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles are the most in women's tenni
Bobby Riggs
…challenges, inviting active and retired tennis pros to participate. In 1973, aged 55, he held two such events, first against the No. 1–ranked woman player Margaret Smith Court, which he won, and another against the then-current women's champion Billie Jean King, which he lost. The latter, the primetime "Battle of the Sexes…
Court in 1964
Court at the net in 1970
Margaret Court playing doubles at Wimbledon alongside Evonne Goolagong