And now someone will bring up Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, I’m sure.........................
I smell a McEnroe promoted tennis match.
There have been a few stories recently about how women could compete in sports against men.
Where are these stories coming from?
Is someone pushing sexual integration of sports, because they are pushing the view that women in sports are inferior, and/or separate but equal???
Does this have anything to do with “transsexual” men who have competed in women’s sports recently, which also blurs the lines of sex specific sporting categories????
I’d like to see Serena play an animal from the zoo.
Maybe she should stop taking testosterone and then have a fair match against women. She is built like a bulldozer,and no where near natural.
Maybe she should stop taking testosterone and then have a fair match against women. She is built like a bulldozer,and no where near natural.
Another event dubbed a "Battle of the Sexes" took place during the 1998 Australian Open between Karsten Braasch and the Williams sisters.
Venus and Serena Williams had claimed that they could beat any male player ranked outside the world's top 200, so Braasch, then ranked 203rd, challenged them both.
Braasch was described by one journalist as "a man whose training regime centered around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager".
The matches took place on court number 12 in Melbourne Park,after Braasch had finished a round of golf and two beers. He first took on Serena and after leading 5–0, beat her 6–1. Venus then walked on court and again Braasch was victorious, this time winning 6–2.
Braasch said afterwards, "500 and above, no chance". He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game "fun".
Braasch said the big difference was that men can chase down shots much easier, and that men put spin on the ball that the women can't handle. The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.
“Maybe Serena should try to play one of the top men’s players just to see what happens. :D “
She might be able t o return a few serves. On the other side of the net, anything she serves up with be launched back at her.
I knew she would answer that ‘over the net’ serve by John McEnroe. Serena is nothing if not very competitive. She’s clapping back!
Truth is, he’s probably right, but John is talking about the average woman player. I hear Serena and her sister are better than average. Hard to tell the legend from the actual history for me, since I don’t really follow the sport.
Just get rid of all gender categories in sports. Problem solved. Women want equality, let’s give ‘em equality.
I guess they want to attract some viewers.
Since the Williams sisters ARE men, he is right. They rule the women’s circuit but would get killed in the men’s. Daddy realized that early on and thus, the switcheroo.
There is NO sex check in tennis (or almost every sport) and daddy knew that going into it.
Soon it won’t matter.
“Maybe Serena should try to play one of the top men’s players just to see what happens. :D “
Maybe Serena should show Mcenroe how the game is played by asking him to accompany her while she goes to the bank to cash checks.
McEnroe is refreshingly non-PC. The NPR shill was trying to gin something up by bringing up the feminist angle, even though Serena looks more like a linebacker than a tennis player.
She is grunty and tenacious, but no match for top male players. Anyone built like that is not top tier for tennis as far as finesse & footspeed.
MMA, maybe.
Then she plays the pregnancy card, “Don’t pick on me you big bully,” while McEnroe was just trying to answer a question.
This is sooo fake and planned by both McEnroe and Williams.
All this does is bring attention to the U.S. Open in Tennis that scheduled for late August.
Their viewership numbers must be down and this controversy would give it the boost they need to get that Advertising revenue numbers up.
This controversy of men vs women in sports should just go away because everyone who espouses it is after recognition.
Women and men should compete against their own gender and males (mediocre males) saying they feel they’re really females and competing against good female athletes and winning are just four flushers.
I imagine if she “self-identifies” as a man trapped in a manly woman’s body, she could try out for the men’s league.
Much of John’s “fame” comes from how big a jerk he has always been.
billie jean king vs bobby riggs, as I recall riggs had to defend the doubles outside lines and king the inside singles line.
please correct me if I am wrong, but as I recall this was the double standard that was employed for this match.
The greatest female sports performance I have ever seen was Jackie Joyner Kersee long jumping over 24 feet. That would win most men’s college meets.
On the other hand the men’s record is something like 31 feet. The long jump is one of those events where there are very few in the really top tier.
It is also widely believed that she was on steroids.