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It was on 20 September 1973 that Bobby Riggs met Billie Jean King on the tennis court. Of all the tennis matches until then, this was probably the
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that attracted the most attention. Riggs had once been a champion, but at 55 he was getting rather old for top-class tennis. But he considered
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a better player than any woman. In fact, he thought women should go home and find
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useful to do in the kitchen. Billie Jean King, on the other hand, was a 29-year-old star of women"s tennis and a feminist. Riggs thought that
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would be a good idea to play King. He was sure he could beat
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. King agreed to play.
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was a lot of interest in the match, and more or less
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in the country was looking forward to
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. On the night of the match,
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were over 30,000 people in the Houston Astrodrome. When Riggs and King came face to face with
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other, they had 50 million people watching
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on TV. The match didn"t work out for Riggs, because Billie Jean King defeated
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, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.