Posted on 06/26/2017 4:05:17 AM PDT by grundle
Should professional tennis continue or abolish its policy of gender segregation?
X Professional tennis should continue its policy of gender segregation.
X Professional tennis should abolish its policy of gender segregation.
The way the Wiliams Brothers have been dominating for all these years you might as well drop the pretense.
It is like dropping the nonsense “professional” requirement at the Olympics when many countries were just listing the profession as “soldier.”
Riggs probably threw that match - he certainly didn’t train fir it. I was a merely adequate high school and college player and have beaten or come very close to beating rather highly ranked women players. My father was a ranked amateur in the ‘20s and ‘30s and played against most of the (then very few) pros, including Tilden, Lacoste, Budge, Riggs, Vines, etc. He played at a level then called AA, but would now be a respectable, but not top ranked pro. He also played many of the top women players ‘socially’ and beat all of them soundly. It’s possible a very few women could compete with the men (the execrable Williams sisters come to mind, but certainly not Billie Jean King even at her prime), but they would be very rare.
I remember the Riggs Court match, he pwned her!
Only women’s sport worth watching is.........figure skating....on ice....
Only if you want the women to never win another match.
Sporting events were sex-segregated for a reason...
I know a teaching pro who worked with Navritalova. He was a few years younger than her. I don’t
think that he ever made it to #500 in the world in singles
but when they would play a set in practice he would beat her.
Hey, I love listening to women play tennis! Ban women’s sports? Two words: Maria Sharipova.
Years ago Chris Evert was asked how she would do against the men and she said she would be struggling for points. Not games or sets.
But they liked hometown boy McEnroe and his “are you serious” shtick.
Since the left demands full equality, I say that all teams must be open to all persons, regardless of their sex. The reason why it’s not done now, is that “men have an unfair advantage”. (Oh, but I thought that men and women were the same, and that all differences are because of differences in upbringing.).
Do it. It should be fun to watch the ways the morons justify what they are doing.
Why are there chess tournaments restricted to women?
ML/NJ
I didn’t know he was defending the doubles court; that kind of sheds a new light on that match.
Now really? We are putting women into the infantry so accommodate Senator Burr’s sons who don’t want to serve their nation in uniform (...as well as the Romney boys, the Sununu boys, the National Review boys, etc.). Surely if the gals can serve as infantrymen they can play tennis with the guys.
Hello? They haven’t heard of mixed doubles play? Idiots.
We’ve watched a whole lot of city league kiddie basketball and on into jr high and HS basketball, shepherding our girls through the age groups.
When the boys and girls get to age 12 and 13, the separation in agility, speed, skills and aggressiveness grows every day. By age 14 the boys are starting to dunk and can get down the floor like cheetahs.
Women tennis players can hit the ball hard with all their grunting, but men have another level of power. I say take down the sex barrier until people figure that out.
I think they should try this in basketball - let the L.A. Sparks play the Warriors. But I'm not even sure even the 230-12 beatdown and multiple injured Sparks players that result would dissuade the feminists. :)
No worry the transgenders will take care of that.
I see what you did there...:)
Don't forget mud wrestling. ;-)
I’m all for it if they abolish the WTA and its extortion to get prize-money equity in the majors even though mens tennis pays the bills. It’s the worst kind of affirmative action, demanding equal pay for unequal production.
Johnny Mac said today that Serena would rank 700 if in the mens tournaments. Let’s see, that’d bring her about ZERO dollars in prize money.
Here for Djokovic on prize equity last year: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35859791 Good for him!
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