Nov 13, 2023
Veteran Tennis.com writer, Racquet Magazine columnist & "Three - A Tennis Show" podcast host Joel Drucker ("Jimmy Connors Saved My Life") stops by to drop some serious knowledge on how the decade of the 1970s transformed the sport of professional tennis into the global juggernaut it is today - including pivotal turning points such as:
- The
groundbreaking World Championship Tennis (WCT) and
Virginia Slims Circuit tours that brought
standardized scheduling, big-time media exposure and unprecedented
prize money to both the men's and women's pro games for the first
time'
- 1973's paradigm-shifting
intergender
"Battle of
the Sexes" competition between inveterate hustler
Bobby Riggs and female icon Billie Jean
King - an international spectacle whose result both
transcended tennis and changed the face of American sports;
and
- World
Team Tennis - the innovative, ahead-of-its-time rethink of
how the pro game could be played - featuring city-domiciled, co-ed,
team-oriented match play on colorful playing surfaces in front of
raucous crowds in major indoor arenas from coast to
coast.
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