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You guys are all severely underestimating how bad women suck at sports. Seriously. I worked in sports media for several years and the Texas women's team had a bunch of student manager scrubs that they used to scrimmage against. The guys would beat the women every time if they didn't hold back, and the Texas women were in the top 10 at the time.

Any decent high school boys' team would destroy a team of WNBA all-stars 100 times out of 100. Hell, pick 5 guys off the court at just about any decent pickup court in a big city and they'd run the WNBAers off the court.

There's simply no comparison.

When Chris Evert was a dominant #1 women's player, she was married for a time to John Lloyd, a pro men's player. He was usually ranked between 150th and 250th in the world, and I don't believe he ever was ranked higher than 100th. They used to play competitive tennis at least once a week, best 2 out of 3 sets, at full strength.

Do you know how many times she beat him? Zero. Never. In fact, she said she never really came close.

There is a vas deferens between men's and women's sports.

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That's not quite the same issue though. Chris Evert's husband, although he was not a very good pro, was a pro nevertheless. I am not disputing whether a professional male athlete, however marginal, could take out the world's best woman. Of course he could. Make the question "could Chris Evert in her prime beat a state boys high school tennis champion (or maybe the Division III NCAA men's champion)?" and it becomes a lot more interesting, and the answer not quite as pat. I suppose in the case of the above question, knowing the state the guy was the HS champion of would make a big difference, as the Florida, Texas, and California state champions >>>>>>>> in quality over New York, New Hampshire, North Dakota state champions due to climate, training opportunities, etc.

--Scott