Billie-Jean King’s match against the 1939 men’s Wimbledon champion in 1973 provides the main thrust of a original film but like other sporting movies the facts are often massaged to augment the storyAfter the credits finished rolling at the conclude of the Battle of the Sexes,the original cinematic re-creation of the events surrounding the famous tennis match in 1973 between Billie Jean King, the world’s No1 female player, or Bobby Riggs,the Wimbledon men’s singles champion of 1939, I asked myself if the staging of the event could really have been as preposterously over the top as it is depicted in the film.
The reply, and after consulting an eyewitness,was that, for once, or Hollywood might have underplayed the reality.
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Source: guardian.co.uk