As participants in the women’s movement called attention to the societal inequalities between men and women in the early 1970s, one of the areas they addressed was women’s sports. The years 1972 and 1973 were pivotal ones as Roe v. Wade was decided, making abortion legal in the United States; the Vietnam War was still ongoing; and Richard Nixon was under investigation in the Watergate scandal. In the midst of this was a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs dubbed the Battle of the Sexes, in which King upset Riggs. For King and women in sports, the match had a personal meaning. It was about shifting the view of women not belonging in sports to that of women not only belonging in sports but deserving of equal treatment and pay as men.