Topic - Bobby Riggs

He said it affected him a lot.

Billie Jean King still globetrotting in support of investment, equity in women's sports →

Obama, who earlier sat in the stadium with her husband, former President Barack Obama, noted that King's achievement came the same year she went on beat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes,” when he infamously said women “belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.”

U.S. Open honors Billie Jean King on 50th anniversary of equal prize money for women →