Former French tennis participant Marion Bartoli has harshly replied to the phrases launched a number of weeks in the past by Nikolay Davydenko about equal prize cash between ladies’s and males’s tennis.
The previous Russian tennis participant had spoken of a transparent injustice that within the Slams women and men earn the identical sums. The previous world quantity 3 has in actual fact said that within the ATP 250, 500, 1000 class tournaments it’s proper that there’s equal prize cash between women and men. However relating to Grand Slam tournaments ladies by no means play five-set matches.
“For instance, Serena Williams has received sure Grand Slam tournaments all through her profession, dropping solely 10 video games throughout your entire match. Male tennis gamers work 3 times tougher than feminine tennis gamers in most of these tournaments. It’s subsequently unfair to pay them the identical quantity,” analyzed the Russian.
The previous Wimbledon champion responded bluntly to Davydenko on the subject, drawing a parallel between Serena herself and Roger Federer, in the course of the newest episode of Les Grandes Gueules du Sport on RMC Sports activities.
“When Federer received Wimbledon in 2017 with out dropping a single set throughout your entire match, the hourly fee on the court docket will need to have been roughly the identical as Serena Williams throughout her Slam victories. There are nonetheless ladies’s matches that final greater than 4 hours.
There have been many extraordinarily lengthy matches in ladies’s tennis and there have been extraordinarily brief matches in males’s tennis as nicely. Davydenko is totally unsuitable, from begin to end. And the examples he cites are completely ridiculous,” she defined.
It is a delicate matter, however I principally agree with Bartoli’s phrases. It’s clear that even within the Slams – even when there’s a distinction in units – there have to be equal prize cash for each the boys’s singles and the ladies’s singles: it isn’t only a matter of analyzing the bodily effort carried out by the tennis gamers in these two weeks, but in addition guaranteeing equality to an occasion that lasts fortnight for everybody and that have to be uniform for each the boys’s and ladies’s singles.
