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I was wondering earlier if there had been any other finals where it had been 6-0, 6-0 and seems like Anisimova will be a special part of history here.

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I'm sure once Anisimova has recovered from such a horrible loss (and stays far away from social media as it will be brutal), she will eventually be able to return to form and use this as a steep learning curve.
 
Reuben klang said:
In the final perhaps like what they use to do in the 1000 events on the mens sides.

Unless you run the tournaments at separate times?

Otherwise you run the risk of delays and more importantly injuries. As Sabalenka said the other day.

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Sabalenka not interested in best-of-5s for women

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka wouldn't want women's tennis to move to best-of-five-set matches at Grand Slam tournaments -- like the men play -- fearing higher injury risks.
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I'm sure Sabalenka isn't a fan of going to 5 sets after all a female Wimbledon winner earns £1.5m for every set they win where as the mens winner gets £1m. The girls are on a winner with unequal pay.

The fairest solution for IMO would be to play the earlier rounds as best of 3 and play the later rounds (maybe from the quarter finals onwards) as best of 5.
 
Freddie1980 said:
I'm sure Sabalenka isn't a fan of going to 5 sets after all a female Wimbledon winner earns £1.5m for every set they win where as the mens winner gets £1m. The girls are on a winner with unequal pay.

The fairest solution for IMO would be to play the earlier rounds as best of 3 and play the later rounds (maybe from the quarter finals onwards) as best of 5.
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What about the WTA and ATP tours then? Both are best of 3 and the mens tournaments carry bigger purses. If you make the women play best of 5 in slams due to equal pay then do you make the men play best of 5 on the ATP as they get more money? Maybe it currently equals itself out across the slams and tour events.
Certain events are aiming at equal pay but not before 2029
 
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scarps said:
What about the WTA and ATP tours then? Both are best of 3 and the mens tournaments carry bigger purses. If you make the women play best of 5 in slams due to equal pay then do you make the men play best of 5 on the ATP as they get more money? Maybe it currently equals itself out across the slams and tour events.
Certain events are aiming at equal pay but not before 2029
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Tbh I don't care about the regular tours, I watch Wimbledon and occasionally the US and French opens it just seems backwards that we still treat the women with kid gloves when we're meant to be society that's striving for equity between the sexes. A sport such as tennis has no excuse.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Tbh I don't care about the regular tours, I watch Wimbledon and occasionally the US and French opens it just seems backwards that we still treat the women with kid gloves when we're meant to be society that's striving for equity between the sexes. A sport such as tennis has no excuse.
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Just 4 events though over the year, most players earn their money from the tour, Women don't earn as much as the men playing the same amount of sets so the majority of women players are missing out

Odd people want the women to play best of 5 as its equal pay in the slams but aren't bothered the women earn less on the tour.
 
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scarps said:
Just 4 events though over the year, most players earn their money from the tour, Women don't earn as much as the men playing the same amount of sets so the majority of women players are missing out

Odd people want the women to play best of 5 as its equal pay in the slams but aren't bothered the women earn less on the tour.
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I don't see what tour earnings has anything to do with the amount of sets your being asked to play at a major event. From what I proposed to keep scheduling requirements the vast majority of women players wouldn't be playing 5 set matches it would only be the final 8 or 16.

As far as I'm aware the WTA and ATP negotiate there deals and tournaments separately. Again if the ladies aren't happy about the amount of prize money they get from the tour then they should consider replacing their board, market their sport better and fight for what they're are worth.
 
I’ve went into a little loop hole.

I can’t find anything from the last couple of years as it’s not publically available but there’s data from 2021. ATP had twice the revenue as the WTA.

The slams which are separate like the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) generates the vast majority of revenue from media rights deals with TV operators and networks worldwide.

Those companies want men’s matches.

Anyway, the slams collectively generate >£1bn but the prize pool is less than £300m nice tidy profit for them!

Guess that’s why Wimbledon has bought that golf course!

Suppose running these mega events cost a fortune!

Back to tennis; hopefully it’s a cracking final. Rooting for Carlos doing the FO-Wim double back to back is some achievement. Second player to ever do it after Borgs treble in the 70s

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Both players are 1.9 so bookies just can’t separate them! Would have been good if #1 was on the line as well.
 
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I did wonder which Anisimova would turn up. If it was the one that beat Sabalenka then Iga would have been in for a decent match. Turns out we got the one from Miami where Raducanu thrashed her, and the one from the 2nd set in the Noskova match where she walked around doing nothing.

As it was Iga played well, kept her intensity, and was a well deserving winner.

People keep talking abut Iga's poor season and not winning a competition (until now) but fail to realise that she's won more matches than anyone not named Sabalenka.

Just the Aus open left to go for a career grandslam, and to cement her place as one of the greats.
 
Alice In Wonderland said:
So another start of 4pm today rather than 2pm.

I'm not sure I like these new times but I'm hoping today will be a much more exciting match than yesterdays.

I really want Alcaraz to win so he probably won't! Lol!
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Don't know why Wimbledon have changed the hours, but I know I don't like it.
 
Kelt said:
Don't know why Wimbledon have changed the hours, but I know I don't like it.
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Probably for US audiences. The same reason F1 changed race times from 14:00 CET to 16:00

Hopefully it comes back to bite them in the ass and the mens final runs so long they have to stop and start again on Monday. Unlikely though.
 
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