This time I bring as a recommendation the movie "Battle of the sexes" starring Oscar winner, Emma Stone. The film is about the life of tennis player Billie Jean King, one of the athletes who fought for gender equality in sport since the 70s. The story revolves around her battle to obtain the same benefits for women sports federation inclined to machismo, about their love life and how was their preparation to take on the challenge of leading the sporting event of the year between a man and a woman on a tennis court in an official manner.
The differences between genders have always existed, the sport does not escape from it, in some disciplines you can see the equality between both sexes, however there are others that still seek to achieve it. Venezuela, when it achieved the 4th place in the world under 17 women started a "boom" with the players, despite being one of the teams with international achievements does not yet have the resources and level planning to attend the tournaments. Less than a month for the Women's Cup America in Chile have not yet done enough work with the possible summoned to the international event.
And so many situations that can be exemplified, what I feel should exist mainly between genres rather than "equality" is respect. At the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 there was an incident with the journalist John Inverdale, who congratulated Andy Murray for being the first tennis player to get two gold medals at the Olympics, during the interview the Scotsman corrected and emphasized that the Williams Sisters, Venus and Serena had 4 gold medals each, a sample of how the merit of women's sports can be disregarded through the media and how an elite athlete like Murray can correct and show respect.
Let's return to the main theme of the film, because I feel that this has enough material to cut, despite being a drama with scenes with a good sense of humor, I leave this recommendation to you and I await your comments and suggestions. Billie Jean King left record in his professional career of 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 singles, 16 in women's doubles and 11 in mixed doubles.