King's win is considered a milestone in public acceptance of women's tennis. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. In tennis, " Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case. Bobby Riggsīattle of the Sexes III Martina Navratilova vs.
Bobby Riggsīattle of the Sexes II Billie Jean King vs.
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