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Cynics have wondered exactly what the point of the event is.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka and Kyrgios insist it is to attract a different audience to the sport, with an emphasis on fun, entertainment and celebrity culture.<\/p>\n
“There are question marks – and that scares people,” Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n
“For us, it is exciting and gives us that thrill. I think events like this need to happen more in the tennis world.”<\/p>\n
The event, being held at the 17,000-seater Coca-Cola Arena, is on track to be sold out. <\/p>\n
Tickets range from about \u00a3100 in the upper tier stands to upwards of \u00a3600 on courtside benches.<\/p>\n
“Sport and entertainment is the same thing \u2013 people come to watch sport for the unknown, that’s why it is not played on paper,” Kyrgios said.<\/p>\n
“Whether it’s good or bad, they want to remember something they are going to see in everyday life.”<\/p>\n
Billie Jean King, who beat Bobby Riggs in the second Battle of the Sexes match in 1973, hopes it will be a “great” match but says it is “not the same” as her era-defining event.<\/p>\n
King’s victory over former Wimbledon champion Riggs – a 55-year-old self-proclaimed chauvinist – was a landmark moment in the fight for gender equality and laid the path for equal pay at the top of the game.<\/p>\n
“Ours was about social change; culturally, where we were in 1973. This one is not,” King told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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