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*Official* Tennis Thread
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Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Technically yes but in reality no. If you look at the womens prize money much earlier in tennis, it was far lower in comparison to the men. But as women have had more people watching them, they have had the weight of the market forces to demand higher prize money and now demanding equal prize money for quite some time.marc71178 said:
The doubles and mixed doubles have lower prize money as no one watches them. Bring in the top players to play doubles every yeard for 3-5 years (as ATP is trying to do with its stupid rule changes in doubles) and you will see the prize money in doubles rise as well.
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
Keep Dreaming, the gap is getting less day by day. It's (Equal Pay) already there at Aus & US open, French open is awefully close, Wimbledon will get there one day.Scaly piscine said:
Really, the finals I saw, there Venus Played more games than Federer. You must have watched some other Wimbledon. Moreover Venus doesn't decide how many sets she has to play.
So are ever other male player in Tennis, so they should be paid less as well ?
Funny, only people who seemed like doing Go-Karting in the Wimbledon SemiFinals and Finals were Hewitt and Roddick.
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
Are you sure ?? Federer is good, but is he better than Sampras, Agassi, Rafter of 90s, I doubt it. Does he face the competition Sampras faced throughout his career. NO.Anil said:...errr...maybe because he is that superb and that complete a player...???
Is it because he is just that good,NO, it is because Roddick, Hewitt, Safin etc aren't as good as Agassi, Rafter etc. When Sampras played there were many amazing players(both young and old) who would do remarkebly well on grass Edberg, Becker, Krajecek, Henmen, Goran, Sampras, Rosset, Scud, Martin. Federer doesn't have to face the opponents of that quality on any surface except clay.
biased indian
International Coach
but they had to play more games to reach the finals tha the women didSanz said:Last time I watched Wimbledon Finals, there women played more games than the men. It was more competive and more entertaining.
In the mens final there was only one guy who was playing Tennis, the other guy was just there helping the ball boys.
Sanz
Hall of Fame Member
My opinion wasn't based on that particular tournament, that was just an example. To make things more fair, shouldn't it be something like, 'you will get paid more money if you played more games..' After all why should Federer get more money for playing same no. of sets or less no. of games in the finals than Venus ? What was his contribution in those 90 % games where men played more games than women, why should he benefit for the games other men played ?broncoman said:
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Sanz I am a big big big Pat Rafter fan, but I honestly don't believe he is as good as Federer. Seriously look at the shots that man plays. Commentators like McEnroe and John Newcombe have seen all the great players of the past few decades, and give immense praise to Federer. There's a reason for that.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Man, I cannot believe it has come down to this........ Federer being compared to Rafter.... You know, Sanz, maybe it looks as though he has no competition but let me tell you.....Safin and Nadal are as good as any guy who has played tennis in the 90s barring Sampras and perhaps, Agassi. YOu are the first person, at least in my experience of watching and talking Tennis, that has suggested that Federer is not even 'great'. Guys like Sampras, Boris, Edberg, Courier, Mcenroe, Borg, Connors etc have all said that he could be "the most complete tennis player" since Laver... Some have even called him potentially the greatest..... He is just so damn good that he makes the others look very inferior to him....