In the infant stages of the women’s liberation movement, an Australian tennis player faced off in a “battle of the sexes” match on Mother’s Day 50 years ago with a male player who doubted women's’ ...

The concept of inter-gender matches began with Bobby Riggs taking on Margaret Court in 1973, even before the first-ever ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on May 13, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On this day in 1973, in tennis’ first so-called ...

In 1973, Bobby Riggs, then aged 55, stood out less for his athletic performances than for a series of openly sexist ...

Margaret Court, regarded as one of the greatest tennis players in history with her record 24 Grand Slam titles, says she has been iced out from the tennis community and despite her admiration for ...