Bobby Riggs

On September 20th, 1973 Women’s tennis champion Billie Jean King took on Men’s tennis champion Bobby Riggs in Houston, Texas in a winner take all $100,000 tennis match. The match was nationally televised and was named the “Battle of the Sexes”. King would defeat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, and become the first women to defeat a man in any sport. After the match, it is reported that Riggs “was devastated and isolated himself in his hotel room for four hours.” The match had an estimated 90 million…

idea. The most acclaimed and powerful achievement of her tennis vocation came when she remained on the court independent from anyone else. That would be Sept. 20, 1973, in the Houston Astrodome when King, at that point 29, managed 55-year-old Bobby Riggs a 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 defeat in what was charged as "The Battle of the Sexes." "To beat a 55-year-old person was no excite to me," King said at the time. "The excite was uncovering a ton of new individuals to…

that they thought I wasn't good enough,' Caroline, a sixth grader, told Fox 29. 'It was discrimination, it just didn't feel good. Finally, Billie King competed against Bobby Riggs in the match called “the Battle of the Sexes”. Wikipedia says King accepted a challenge to play Riggs for $100,000. Billie King, who was 29, beat Bobby Riggs, who was 55, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. The worldwide TV audience was estimated to be around 50 million people plus the 30,492 spectators. The match is considered a very…

As King was winning tennis championships, a book published in 1963 would spark a movement that changed the lives of women in America and around the world. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique began as a series of interviews the author did in the late 1950s and early 1960s with her fellow graduates of Smith College, one of the most prestigious colleges for women. She found that many were unhappy with the restrictions their roles as wives and mothers put on their lives. Friedan’s book documented…

interview that women and girls weren’t allowed to participate in competitive sports. Women only could take part in cheerleading, band, and pep club. Another text from our course that connected to the interview was the video about Billie Jene King and Bobby Riggs battling it out on the tennis court. Brenda remembers watching this match and she realized that this matched changed women’s sports forever since a woman beat a man in a match. Finally I would like to mention the video "Miss…

An essential message to take from When Billie Beat Bobby, a 2001 comedy drama film, is to not let anybody define you. This film focuses on the historic 1973 “Battle of the Sexes”, although relatively cheesily, and the struggles that Billie Jean King--the protagonist--undergoes as a young child and even when she is and adult and challenged by the “male chauvinist pig” Bobby Riggs, the antagonist. This message is asserted by Billie Jean King herself by her quote “Don’t let anybody define you.…

They're the best of the best, exemplifying all the courage and nobility and genius and hard work and modesty and ambition and humility and grace that can be displayed in modern American sports. They're the ones we really want to be like when the going gets tough, they're the ones we want to show our sons and daughters and say, "See? See?" They all had flaws, we know -- they were, despite some signs to the contrary, human. And they're Page 2's greatest sports heroes of all time. . Page 2's…

Women tend to be ignored in the sporting world. They are usually stereotyped as weak and incapable “people believed to play sports one needed strength, endurance, and skill, all characteristics of men not women” (Carter, 2005), therefore should not participate in sports. “Women have few opportunities as professional athletes in comparison to the number of opportunities for men. Few professional women 's sports league have existed, and when they did, they were short-lived” (Syda, 1993). This…

Are there equal opportunities provided for women and girls to play and compete in sports? How are women and girls being looked at and treated? Every day, we see scenarios of inequality between women and men in sports. Fortunately, there has been a vast improvement in the role in which women play in sport from up to 40 years ago till now. There has been change in media outlets, governing bodies and especially female athletes around the world, whether Caucasian or African. Although a lot of…

Should girls be allowed to be on a sports team with boys? Certain people don’t think that this should be allowed, others do. Before that question is fully answered there are some women that should be mentioned for their superior work in sports. When it comes to tennis there are very important athletes that helped the sport grow and become more popular. Some female athletes have really helped the sport become more popular by playing well and getting rankings. As of right now the 10th best…