Doubts cast over Billie Jean’s win against Riggs

The greatest woman-beats-man match in tennis history could have been an elaborate mob fraud, according to a new report from ESPN.

Forty years ago, retired tennis champ Bobby Riggs lost to Billie Jean King in a remarkably hyped event that is still revered in the annals of the women’s liberation movement, the New York Post reported.

Artfully playing the brash male chauvinist pig, the 55-year-old Riggs lost in three straight sets to the world’s No 2 woman player of the time, King.