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Arthur Ashe had a scholarship to UCLA, and Stan Smith, who became No. 1 as well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], had a full scholarship to USC.How were you involved in the passage of Title IX?I started hearing rumblings in the early '70s about Title IX, and then I did go and testify and try to help push it through. And it was really important that I beat Bobby Riggs the year after, because I knew that wasn't just a tennis match, it was about social change. And we'd just started the women's professional tour [in 1974]. So all of these things were happening at the same time. Related Story How Title IX Sneakily Revolutionized Women's Sports Did Title IX factor into your decision to play Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes?Not originally. Bobby followed me around for two or three years, and I kept saying, "No, I don't want to play you." So he asked Chris Evert and others,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and then Margaret Court said yes because it was for $35,000. When she lost, I knew I had to play him, because I thought [women's tennis players] were at stake, and

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