On the 50th anniversary of Billie Jean King's match against Bobby Riggs — still the most-watched in tennis history — King moves toward becoming the first female individual athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
On the 50th anniversary of that match against Bobby Riggs — still the most-watched in— King will move toward becoming the first female individual athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
King has already celebrated the 50th anniversaries this year of the WTA Tour and the U.S. Open becoming the first tournament to award equal prize money to its men's and women's champions. On Sept. 20, 1973, she faced Riggs, the former No. 1-ranked men's player who boasted he could beat any women's player.
"This match was about much more than tennis. It was about social change," King wrote Tuesday on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
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