I explained this before. For the sake of the tedious people who wanted women and men to play the same amount of sets, it was an option. It's mostly just theoretical. I never said I liked the idea. If you don't remember all of the endless equal pay arguments, well, good for you, because they were repetitive and circular.
At the risk of keeping this going, not all tennis players are multi-millionaires. Far from it, and tennis is an expensive game to play, with the travel, etc. The real, important argument is about the bottom-end of the spectrum. Effort has been made to distribute the monies more equitably, men's and women's game. And I have no problem if independent ATP events can afford a higher pay-scale than independent WTA events. (There are exceptions where WTA events attract more crowds than equivalent ATP ones, which I can cite, if you like.) However, an interesting hidden discrimination is explained in this NYT article. The Australian Open has 128 slots for male qualifiers, but only 96 for women, at least as of 2017. That is twice as many options for lower-ranked men to make money there than for the women. (For the record, the USO has the same # of qualifiers men/women, and I don't know about RG/Wimbledon.) Some people that discuss pay equality talk about the quality of the relative games. But if it's harder for talented women to stay in the game, the overall quality will be reduced. Women's tennis has the best overall record of pay-equality in sports, so I'm not here to complain about that, really. I'm just pointing out that there are still built-in inequalities where there needn't be.
Yes, and Djokovic when he weighed in at IW a couple of years ago, in a very unwise response to a hot potato question. But yes, it's the top players that get listened to. It's actually Venus who has done the heavy-lifting behind the scenes in the last decade or so for equal prize money. But also note how Roger and Rafa got slagged by a lower-ranked player for not coming to bat for the players during qualifying at the AO just a week ago. So damned if you use your star power, damned if you don't.
Men do play better. Bo5 for women? Sure if people don’t mind the snooze fest. Equality? Why not let the juniors and seniors do the same? Equality should not just for gender, can’t discriminate against age.
Venus? One can expect what happens when they let an idiot talk bs. Her argument, coming out of her primitive head, was that ‘we work as hard......’. Those below certain IQ should be in a cage.
Now your usual hateful misogyny has really tipped over into crazy. Crikey, you'd think they were pulling that money out of your pocket. It will do no good to remind you that Venus' thoughtful and damning op-ed in the Times of London was publicly endorsed by Blair and Parliament, leading Wimbledon to finally award equal prize money to women. I post that only to remind others. Enjoy the view from your cage.
Keep barking moxie. MR Blair of course would lick shit to score cheap pc points, funny you say his endorsement is some kind of achievement. Again who except those with brain size of a peanut would present an argument like that? Misogyny, yeah you need that word to get an orgasm, as usual.
