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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
I'm just reading about Sabalenka and Kyrgios. This has to be a joke, Kyrgios is only a few years removed from being a Grand Slam finalist, in a real match no woman however great could hold her own with an elite man. Just how it is. I'm still not convinced Billie Jean really beat Bobby Riggs and he was in his 50s. Come on.
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I was there. I was a regular beer vendor for many Dome events, particularly Oilers games. They had called in too many of us that night, so I ended up getting a floor pass and had a pretty good view from the corner of the court.
Riggs was joking around for a while at the start. But BJK made him run around and wore his azz out. In his prime (before my time, for sure), I bet he'd have beaten her easily, but as it was, he was too old and slow to compete with a world-class woman player like her. I know he beat Margaret Court, but that was more of a fun exhibition match from what I have read.