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Riggs, Bobby (1918–1995)| US tennis player. As an amateur, he helped the USA win the Davis Cup in 1938, then won the Wimbledon and US singles in 1939; after winning the US singles again in 1941, he turned professional and played for another ten years. |
Wimbledon singles: 1939; doubles: 1939; mixed: 1939 |
US Open singles: 1939, 1941; mixed: 1940 |
| In 1973 he emerged from retirement when he claimed that any half-decent male player could defeat even the best female players; he challenged Margaret Court, then a leading woman player, to a winner-take-all match on national television and defeated her. Pressing his point, later that year he played Billie Jean King, who routed him in three straight sets. |
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