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Jay Feely, a erstwhile NFL kicker who is moving for Congress successful Arizona, was among those who weighed successful connected nan panned "Battle of nan Sexes" tennis match betwixt Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka.
The lucifer featured Sabalenka having an separator to level nan playing section arsenic her broadside of nan tribunal was 10% smaller than her opponent’s. Feely connected Sunday made a constituent astir men playing successful women’s sports.
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Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka clasp astatine nan nett astatine nan extremity of their Battle of nan Sexes match, successful Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday Dec. 28, 2025. (Christopher Pike/Pool Photo via AP)
"Please don’t ever judge nan absolute garbage coming from ignorant liberals that letting men compete pinch women isn’t unfair to nan women," he wrote connected X successful consequence to nan match.
The "Battle of nan Sexes" sanction was borrowed from nan historical 1973 lucifer betwixt Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. King won nan lucifer successful 4 consecutive sets and helped motorboat efforts to commencement a female circuit and get adjacent salary successful tennis.
The lucifer didn’t look to person nan aforesaid effect connected fans.
Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios laughter up of their Battle of nan Sexes tennis lucifer successful Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday Dec. 28, 2025. (Amr Alfiky/Pool Photo via AP)
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Sabalenka and Kyrgios some defended nan match, which nan Australian won successful consecutive sets.
"I don’t understand really group were capable to find thing antagonistic successful this event," she said. "I was playing awesome tennis. It was an entertaining match. He won nan match, but I showed awesome tennis … It was a awesome fight. It was absorbing to watch."
Kyrgios credited Sabalenka for holding her ain connected nan court.
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"There’s thing but positives that tin beryllium taken distant from this," Kyrgios said, adding that Sabalenka hung pinch personification who had beaten Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray successful his career. "I had to activity for it. I had to sweat. I had to play. I had to run. It was not easy. Nothing came easy. So, let’s put that communicative retired location alternatively than each nan negativity."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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