King-Riggs was rigged.
He did have over a 100k in gambling debts that disappeared after the match.
As best I recall, ?(looking is cheating), there was a considerable age (and stamina) difference for that match-up.
As was this one.
“Kyrgios... faced a disadvantage of Sabalenka’s side of the court being nearly 10% smaller in an attempt to level the playing field.”
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/battle-sexes-tennis-match-sparks-backlash-from-fans
What would you rather be? World Champion woman’s tennis player or a 50 year old sex symbol?
100%
How dumb are these pros? Anyone with a live brain cell can tell you the strongest will serve or return the tennis ball with 25% higher speed, ergo harder to return.
Absolutely it was rigged. Bobby Riggs was a known gambler. He went to Wimbledon. I think it was 1938 in and bet on himself to win the singles doubles and mixed doubles. He won all three walked away with almost $100,000. He also went through Margaret Court I believe in two sets. Billie Jean King was good but not that good.. I met him at a local restaurant in Mountainside New Jersey and he had two of his beautiful blonds with T-shirts that said sugar daddy on it and I was so tempted to ask him why Billie Jean King beat him? But that would be disrespectful to the owner.
Possibly not.
Both were a similar height, within a couple of inches, and BJK looked even more muscled, better conditioned to me.
Billie Jean King was 29 years old, while Bobby Riggs was 55 years old. Margaret Court, who Riggs easily beat earlier in the year, was 31.
King was in her prime ... Riggs was a has-been.
And it was still rigged.
Wasn’t of the “rigs” was he had to defend the man sized court she only had to defend a woman’s sized court. (Men’s is larger.)