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Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« on: June 29, 2012, 09:59:37 pm »

Interesting point raised yesterday by one of the male players. Should prize money be equal?  :confused:

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2012, 10:02:29 pm »
Only if the women play the same amount of sets

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2012, 10:02:34 pm »
But women's games are only 3 sets long instead of going to 5 sets like men's sometimes do so this would need to be brought into line aswell.

I'm not against them getting more just all the other bits have to be the same

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2012, 10:20:14 pm »
For me it's about appeal and popularity.

Until a women's final draws the same interest as a mens, then yes.

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2012, 01:03:47 am »
Only if the women play the same amount of sets

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2012, 02:48:36 am »
They should just have 1 competition for men and women with one lot of prize money. No argument then best person would win!

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2012, 06:44:31 am »
As long as they stop all that grunting. It's enough to put me off my stroke.  :wink:

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2012, 06:54:45 am »
As long as they stop all that grunting. It's enough to put me off my stroke.  :wink:

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2012, 07:22:10 am »
As long as they stop all that grunting. It's enough to put me off my stroke.  :wink:

If the grunting stops, they're deffinately getting a paycut :grin:

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2012, 09:10:53 am »

As long as they stop all that grunting. It's enough to put me off my stroke.  :wink:


If the grunting stops, they're deffinately getting a paycut :grin:


....Well said! Although it depends on the quality of the 'grunting'.

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2012, 09:23:52 am »

For me it's about appeal and popularity.

Until a women's final draws the same interest as a mens, then yes.


....It's all about appeal for me too: I have much more interest in the women's tennis when Tsvetana Pironkova is playing! :love: Saw her play Sharapova and she nearly won.

Apparently, according to the BBC, Sharapova is the highest paid athlete in the world.

Am not a tennis fan but I'll watch the finals though. Same with football.


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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2012, 09:33:39 am »
Only if the women play the same amount of sets

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2012, 12:35:03 pm »
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Hotties Ana Ivanovic vs Julia Goerges now on court:





I hope they don't put you off your stroke, Ian  :evilgrin:

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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2012, 12:37:56 pm »
Not usually Robin.  :wink:



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Re: Should Women and Men earn the same in Tennis?
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2012, 12:55:00 pm »



"Grip It and Rip It!"

You have just corrupted my mind Robin  :laugh: