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"Billie Jean King has done so much for women in sports, not just tennis" - says Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar
ATPSunday, 02 October 2022 at 23:30
Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar responded to a tweet praising Billie Jean King adding her own praise to it and expressing gratitude for what he did.
The award-winning documentary production company Ideas Roadshow praised Billie Jean King for accepting Bobby Riggs' challenge to the match known as 'Battle of the Sexes'. The event draw a record-breaking global audience and saw King defeat the older Riggs:
"Her extraordinary success and influence on the game gained a worldwide audience of 90 million in 1973 when she played former No. 1 player and self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes". Proclaiming loudly and often that the women's game was inferior to the men's, Billie accepted his challenge to prove him wrong. And so she did. King defeated Riggs in three sets in the most-watched tennis match of all time."
Chess grandmaster Susan Polgar responded to that writing:
"Billie Jean has done so much for women in sports, not just tennis. I am very thankful."
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