{"id":2588,"date":"2025-12-11T07:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:06:03","slug":"billie-jean-king-battle-of-the-sexes-match-not-the-same-as-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King: &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match not the same as 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American tennis legend Billie Jean King says the upcoming &#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios is &#8220;not the same&#8221; as her 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs, which she says was about &#8220;social change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1e4dej01yeo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">&#8216;Battle of the Sexes&#8217; will not damage women&#8217;s sport &#8211; Sabalenka<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/videos\/c8e9y1zr26no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American tennis legend Billie &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}