Word: racket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Racket...
...circus trappings of the Bobby Riggs Traveling Chauvinist Pig & Nostrum Show-the chairs on the court, the pails of water, the poodles, the vitamin pills, the Hai Karate aftershave-have been gathered, and the carnival tents have been struck by Billie Jean King's rampaging racket...
...kind of instant pre-play that, he says, allows him to imagine every shot in his mind beforehand. "I've played Billie Jean a dozen times in my mind," he says. "Nothing she can do will be unexpected." A more tangible asset is his complete control over the racket. He can return any shot that he can reach. But, he admits, "If I'm sluggish, she can give me trouble...
Whether she does or not, she is the logical champion to raise a righteous racket against the heathen. King is not merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves...
...eleven. She was a tomboy who played Softball with the fellas in Long Beach, Calif. Sport, she realized, was her thing, but the demand for female shortstops was limited. Her father, a fireman, suggested that she choose tennis, swimming or golf, and she squandered $8 on a purple racket with a velvet grip. After her first day on the courts she told her mother that she wanted to be "the best tennis player in the world...