
Equal pay, equal tennis

Watching the Australian Open this past week has reminded me just how annoying it is that tennis, a sport which has in recent memory generally been fair to female athletes , still makes a fundamental distinction between men’s and women’s play that blatantly patronizes female athletes. Why do men typically play five-set matches but women always three? In truth, I don’t like five-set matches, at least not for routine tournament play. I’d prefer a system in which all matches are three-set, except maybe the final. But whatever the system, have it the same …










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