Posted on 08/27/2013 6:47:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let's see. One of the top women's tennis players in the world beats a 55 year-old guy, and that's supposed to be boost for "gender equality?" LOL.
A 99 mph serve is not a fast serve to a man by the way. I could hit that before with wood rackets.
I'm older now and would not myself cringe at a 99 mph serve today. The male pros would eat them up and spit them out as great as these ladies are IMO.
Riggs was a dinker, lobber, and he often just blocked back shots to take the speed off. He just played different than anyone else but he did win a lot.
Tic tock, tic, tock:
Their fifteen minutes of fame expired forty years ago!
If I recall correctly McEnroe said something like “they would crushed by (male) unranked college players”. He was castigated for his comments but he was right.
I’d like to watch the whole match but I can’t find it on GoogTube. Anyone have a link?
From the few clips I have seen it does look like Riggs is not really trying to win.
I remember watching it on TV on ABC that night (CBS as I recall was showing Bonnie & Clyde). I never really thought Riggs was really trying that hard.
I knew the nutritionist in LA that worked with Riggs for months before the match to bring him to the best possible level of strength and health. Clearly, Riggs was trying.
So you think Riggs went from beating the crap out of Margaret Court a month before, to losing badly to a player who was lesser than Court.
I’ve known a lot of women’s libbers and none of them would have accepted a game in which the odds were totally against them winning. Billy Jean King just would not have let herself be set up for that much embarrassment.
Riggs was milking the whole thing for all he could get.
He asked King for a rematch which would have given him a chance to make even more money by winning this time.
King refused.
I can’t see two VERY heavyweight Outfit Crime Boss Guys like Trafficante and Marcello waltzin’ into some golf course clubhouse, late at night, without at least 4 of their big burly bodyguards comin’ inside with ‘em. Well, might have happened, who knows?
Bobby threw the match because he felt sorry for the girl.
Possibly.
But I remember at the time (at age 12-14)of thinking among my friends any boy could easily outdo any girl of the same age in physical activity so any man of similar age should do as well.
When we realized Riggs was a much older man, even us kids knew it wasn’t a “real” contest though many girls insisted King won far and square and “any girl could do anything a boy could do”
Which is what King, as an radical, leftist, lesbian, feminist wanted and that’s why she and her kind went all along with it.
A corrupt bargain all along and Bobby Riggs was a foolish old man if he really thought he could beat an much youger woman at the top of her game.
McEnroe was a real pr^ck but one thing he took seriously was tennis
I believe him....
Apparently you haven’t read the thread. Riggs did beat a woman at the top of her game. He beat Margaret Court who was the number 1 ranked woman in the world at the time.
He also beat her very easily.
Jimmy Connors mopped the floor with Navratilova, but that didn’t fit the agenda.
And it may have been part of the setup.
A big movie at the time was “The Sting” starring Robert Redford and Paul Neuman.
This maybe the real life version of the sting with Riggs and the American Public as the “mark”
Hmmmm. I watched the match. I seem to recall that King was playing with a single’s court. Rigs was defending a doubles court with the alleys. Hmmmm. Time for some research.
Gwjack
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