Can't Be Fair?

[Sqad]

Tennis:

After watching a marathon game between Anderson v Isner and superb match between Djokovic v Nadal and then the damp squid of a two straight set win in the women's final, how can the women justify equal prize money with men?

[bhg481]

gollob //All the ladies have to train as hard to get where they are today as the men//

In the world of work you get paid by results, not by how hard you try. If the men's game is preferred to the ladies' game, so brings in more income, they should earn more money.

[mushroom25]

how do the statistics for length of play for men and women at Wimbledon compare with the other 3 grand slam tournaments? only Wimbledon is played on grass, a more slippery surface that favours only the strongest women who are good at the "serve and volley" game....

[New Judge]

“NJ what percentage of Grand Slam matches are won in three sets for men and women?”

Sorry Corby, I’ve no idea. I only have stats for Wimbledon.

The figures you want I would have to extract manually. In 2017 the average number of sets per match was 3.55 for the men and 2.35 for the women. Doing a very quick manual count for 2017, 44 of the 127 (34.6%) Ladies’ matches went to three sets whilst 58 of the 127 (45.6%) Men’s matches were completed in three sets.

“All the ladies have to train as hard to get where they are today as the men so it's rather a storm in a teacup”

As I said earlier, the punters do not pay to see the players train, they pay to see them play.

“how do the statistics for length of play for men and women at Wimbledon compare with the other 3 grand slam tournaments?”

Don’t know. But you don’t see much serve and volley by either sex these days. You can see that by looking at the grass courts. When serve and volley prevailed there was a huge patch of worn grass from the baseline towards the net after just a few days’ play. Today the grass is still green.