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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
The hardest serve in women's history is 133 MPH indeed by Sabalenka
The hardest serve in High School boys tennis is 144MPH.
I'm all for equal opportunity in life but this idea of actual equality in the physical realm is still a little silly.
Riggs mopped up the court with Margaret Court a couple months ahead of his match with King got great odds (either for himself or someone he owed money to) and threw the match against King.
Hell the boy's 400m runner on my high school track team who didn't even win the state title in 1988, would've won the women's gold medal in 1988.
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Riggs beat Court 6-1 6-2. At the time she was still, I believe, the #1 player in the world. Even if King was a little better than Court, she was not THAT much better. And she had already refused to play Riggs once. There is no rational reason she would have thought she could win in a legitimate match after Riggs dismantled Court.
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Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 11-26-2025 at 03:53 PM.
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