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Date September 20, 1973
Location Texas • United States
Participants Jimmy Connors • Billie Jean King • Martina Navratilova • Bobby Riggs
Context women’s rights movement • gender equality

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Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King
American tennis player
Riggs, Bobby: “Battle of the Sexes”
Bobby Riggs
American tennis player

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