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- Billie Jean was a strong
- voice for womenΓÇÖs rights,
- both on the court and off.
- In 1973, she beat Bobby
- Riggs, a great tennis
- player in the 1930ΓÇÖs and 1940ΓÇÖs, in a nation-
- ally televised match. Bobby had bragged that
- he could beat any woman. Billie JeanΓÇÖs win
- helped convince people that women should
- earn the same amount of money at the sport
- as men did. Billie Jean helped found the
- WomenΓÇÖs Tennis Association and was its
- first president.
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