Equal Pay at Wimbledon

[battschr]

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I find these "equality" arguments ridiculous, especially in sport which should be a virtual meritocracy.

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Well, the meritocracy is who sells the tickets and TV time.
I don't care if the men's #349 can easily defeat the women's #1, it's how much people will pay to see #1 vs #2 in each gender. If the women's matches pull in the same amount of money, they should be paid the same.

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Exactly.

[DrewDevil]

If they want tickets and TV time, then make the women play in thong bikinis.

[Russ M.]

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I don't see why men don't have sex change operations so they can make mad $$$ yo.

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[Thremp]

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I find these "equality" arguments ridiculous, especially in sport which should be a virtual meritocracy.

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Well, the meritocracy is who sells the tickets and TV time.
I don't care if the men's #349 can easily defeat the women's #1, it's how much people will pay to see #1 vs #2 in each gender. If the women's matches pull in the same amount of money, they should be paid the same.

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Exactly.

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But thats the thing... They don't.

[babolat2389]

women play 3 sets the men play 5. men are on the courts for much longer times, attract more fans, etc. if women played best of 5 matches and attracted a similar amount of fans i would have no problem with equal pay

[ryanghall]

Please don't encourage them to have the women play 3 out of 5. I can see it now - Natalie Dechy vs Russia Randomova in a 3 of 5 5 hour battle. I'd rather gargle broken glass.

They clearly don't deserve equal pay but as long as they don't actually have the women play 3 of 5 set matches I'm happy.

Ryan

[The4Aces]

Don't women in tenis these days bring in more money to the sport? I thought I read somewhere that female tenis is much more popular then male tenis? If this is true shouldnt they get more money then the males?

[THAY3R]

Back when the Williams Sisters were hot, and before Federer was owning the universe, Women's tennis was probably more popular. But that was only a few years window.