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The Battle of the Sexes

6.3 83 mins Documentary   2013
New Black Films   Goldcrest Capital   Media Squared Films  
Director(s): James Erskine Zara Hayes

Release Date: 26 Wed, Jun 2013

Tennis star and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King won a total of 12 Grand Slam titles, but the biggest match of her career took place in 1973 against former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig who declared that, even at the age of 55, he could beat any woman in the world.

Casts of The Battle of the Sexes

Chris Evert

as Self

Bobby Riggs

as Self (archive footage)

Serena Williams

as Self

Maria Sharapova

as Self

Bella Abzug

as Self (archive footage)

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