i. ___ was on September 20, 1973 that Bobby Riggs met Billie Jean King on the tennis court. Of all the tennis matches until then, this was probably the (2) ___ that attracted the most attention. Riggs had once been a champion, but at 55 he was getting rather old for top-class tennis. But he considered (3) ___ a better player than any woman. In fact, he thought women should go home and find (4) ___ useful to do in the kitchen. Billie Jean King, on the other hand, was a 29-year-old star of women’s tennis and a feminist. Riggs thought that (5) ___ would be a good idea to play King. He was sure he could beat (6) ___ . King agreed to play. There was a lot of interest in the match, and more or less (7) ___ in the country was looking forward to (8) ___ . On the night of the match, there were over 30,000 people in the Houston Astrodrome. When Riggs and King came face to face with (9) ___ other, they had 50 million people watching (10) ___ on TV. The match didn’t work out for Riggs, because Billie Jean King defeated (11) ___ , 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.