ATP/WTA:”Battle of Champions” between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova

On the 25th.September 1992 there was a special gender struggle.Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova met in the Battle of Champions.

He has already started in the USA, and “The Battle of Sexes” will be released in Germany and Austria on 23rd October.November in the cinemas.The film tells the story of the legendary duel between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs on 20.September 1973.The gender duel between the then 29-year-old Wimbledon winner King and the 55-year-old ex-professional Riggs went down in history.King won in front of more than 30,000 spectators in Houston 6:4,6:3,6:3,6:3.

To this day, there are persistent rumours that Riggs has deliberately lost the duel to settle gambling debts.Four months earlier, on the 15th.May 1973, he won in Ramon, California with a clear 6-2,6-1 win over 30-year-old Margaret Court.As the match took place on Mother’s Day, it was described in the press as a “Mother’s Day Massacre”.

Twenty-five years ago, on the 25th.In 1992, on the occasion of the first tennis match in 1992, another battle between the sexes took place in tennis, which went down in history as the “Battle of Champions”.Jimmy Connors, 40 years old, met 35-year-old Martina Navratilova at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.The match took place under special rules.Connors only had one serve, while Navratilova was allowed to play in the double field in a change of ball.Connors won 7-5,6-2.In his autobiography The Outsider, Connors revealed that he had bet that Navratilova would not win more than eight games.Here are highlights from the Battle of Champions.

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