{"id":114026,"date":"2023-11-19T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/snl-reimagines-history-with-battle-of-the-sexes-tennis-match-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:00:19","slug":"snl-reimagines-history-with-battle-of-the-sexes-tennis-match-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/snl-reimagines-history-with-battle-of-the-sexes-tennis-match-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Reimagines History With Battle Of The Sexes Tennis Match \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs, there was one other Battle of the Sexes. At least, that\u2019s what occurred in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em>\u2018s revisionist historical past. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the vein of Netflix\u2019s <em>Untold<\/em> collection, the November 18 sketch tells the story of one other tennis matchup between feminine participant Charna Lee Diamond and male opponent Ronnie Dunster (performed by host <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jason-momoa\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-momoa\" data-tag=\"jason-momoa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Momoa<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019d be no Billie without Charna,\u201d one sports activities journalist ponders. \u201cThere just wouldn\u2019t be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOnce they take the court docket, it doesn\u2019t take lengthy for issues to go awry. Ronnie serves the ball, sending it flying straight via Charna\u2019s stomach. Literally. There is now a gap in her abdomen. Adrenaline retains her going, and she or he calls for Ronnie serve the ball once more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe\u2019s reluctant, however Charna insists. It\u2019s for girls, in spite of everything! So, he serves the ball as soon as extra. Only this time, it decapitates her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe should have seen it coming,\u201d the sports activities journalist admits. \u201cHe was 300 pounds of pure muscle, and she was one of the lowest ranked female players at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdds Ronnie himself: \u201cIt was definitely the f*cking weirdest game of tennis I\u2019ve ever played.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDespite her grotesque downfall, Charna nonetheless paved the way in which for feminine gamers, in line with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNL<\/a>. <\/em>In truth, her legacy lives on within the tennis corridor of fame, the place the costume she wore that day hangs, gap and all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the sketch above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Before Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs, there was one other Battle of the Sexes. At least, that\u2019s what occurred in Saturday Night Live\u2018s revisionist historical past. In the vein of Netflix\u2019s Untold collection, the November 18 sketch tells the story of one other tennis matchup between feminine participant Charna Lee Diamond and male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}